What obligationsdo the employees in this model have towards the firm?. Why should employers care about their employees' level of job satisfaction3. Why are modern employees increasingly
Trang 11 What defines the rational organization? Of what do its layers consist? What obligations
do the employees in this model have towards the firm? What obligations does the firm have to its employees?
2 What are conflicts of interest? What types of conflicts of interest are there? Under what circumstances are gifts ethical?
3 Is insider trading moral or immoral? What are the arguments on both sides of the issue?
4 Why should employers care about their employees' level of job satisfaction? Why are modern employees increasingly unsatisfied with their jobs? What can be done to improve their degree of satisfaction?
5 What is the "political organization?" How is it structured and defined? What are the main ethical problems that arise in this model?
6 What are the similarities and differences between the power wielded by managers and the power wielded by governmental officials?
blowing tactics? Why might external whistle blowing occur in any given organization?
8 What is participatory management? Should U.S firms adopt more participatory practices?
9 What is the distinction between the right to due process and employment at will?
should they respect the rights of their former workers?
11 Why do employees have the right to unionize and to strike? What explains the lack of power of modern unions? What are the effects of the dwindling numbers of union
employees in the U.S.?
12 What are the most common types of political tactics? When are they justified?
this model?
Trang 214 The traditional, "rational" model of the business organization is defined it as a structure of formal relationships, which are designed to achieve a goal efficiently.
b False
15 A firm's organizational chart, identifying the formal and informal hierarchies of authority, exemplifies the fundamental reality of the organization.
b False
16 In this view, the employee's main moral duty is to work toward the goals of the firm This view is referred to as:
a Law of Legitimacy
b Law of Structure
c Law of Agency
d Law of Duty
17 Conflicts of interest arise when employees have a private interest in the outcome of a task
in which they are engaged in that is possibly antagonistic to the firm's interests and substantial enough that it might affect the employee's independent judgment on the firm's behalf.
b False
18 Potential conflicts of interest may or may not be ethical, depending on the probability that the employee's judgment will affected by the conflict of interest.
b False
19 A firm's main moral duty to its employees is to provide them with:
a Clean working environment
b Friendly supervisors
c Medical and dental insurance
d Fair wage and fair working conditions
20 Each year, percent of the job force suffers a job-related injury or illness each year.
e None of the above
a Employees are not coerced
b Employees are fully compensated for assuming them and they do so freely and knowingly
c No one else has the expertise to do the work
d All the above
22 Employees' rights to privacy must be balanced against employers' rights to know certain information about their activities.
b False
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an take two forms.
b False
24 Whistle blowing seldom has heavy personal costs to the whistleblower because it is justified when there is clear evidence that the firm's activity is seriously harming others and reasonable attempts to prevent it by informing management have failed.
b False
25 Skills that an employee acquires by working for a company can be and usually are
considered part of her or her person and are not property of the employer.
b False
26 Workers risks on the job in less developed countries are affected by:
a Labor markets that are not competitive or job risks not yet known
b Workers might accept risks unknowingly because the worker doesn't have access to the risk information
c Workers might knowingly accept risks because they lack mobility to enter less risky industries
d All of the above
27 Being that the United States is a developed and sophisticated country, there are no sweatshops within its boundaries.
b False
28 Immanuel Kant's argument about moral rights supports the employee's right to give or withhold their consent before the private aspects of their lives are investigated.
b False
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26 d.All of the above
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28 a.True