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TRUE/FALSE

1. The domain of codified law pertains to behavior about which the law has no say and for which an individual or organization enjoys complete freedom.

2. Ethics, found between the domains of law and free choice, is the code of moral principles that governs any individual or groups.

3. Free choice lies between the domains of codified law and ethics.

4. If something is ethical, it must not be illegal.

5. An ethical dilemma arises in a situation when each alternative choice or behavior have potentially negative consequences. Right and wrong cannot be clearly distinguished.

6. The moral agent is an individual who must make an ethical choice in an organization.

7. Utilitarian, individualism, moral-rights, and objective dualism are the four approaches that guide ethical decision-making.

8. The basis for the recent trend among companies to police employee personal habits such as alcohol and tobacco consumption on the job is called the utilitarian ethic.

9. Monitoring the Internet to maintain the company's ethical climate and workplace productivity could be considered part of an individualistic approach.

10. The ethical concept that acts are moral when they promote the individual's best long term interests, which ultimately leads to the greater good, is known as the moral rights approach.

11. The ethical concept that argues that moral behaviors produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people is objective dualism.

12. In the individualism approach, the right of free speech must be considered.

13. Individualism is popular in the highly organized society of today because it supports immediate self-gain.

14. The right of free consent, the right to privacy, and the right of freedom of conscience are rights that should be considered in the moral rights approach.

15. Procedural justice requires that different treatment of people not be based on arbitrary characteristics.

16. The justice approach is closest to the thinking underlying the domain of free choice.

17. Procedural justice requires that rules be stated clearly, consistently and impartially enforced, and administered fairly.

18. Level 3 of the Personal Moral Development model is Conventional.

19. Individuals, at the preconventional level, are concerned with external rewards and punishments and obey authority to avoid detrimental personal consequences.

20. Individuals are concerned with external rewards and punishments at the principled level.

21. An individual at the postconventional level lives up to expectations of others, fulfills duties and obligations of social systems, and upholds law.

22. Principled level of moral development is also referred to as the postconventional level.

23. The majority of managers operate at the preconventional level of personal moral development.

24. Approximately 20% of American adults, according to your text, ever reach the postconventional level of moral development.

25. The great majority of managers operate at level two, the conventional level.