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The facilitating payments allowed in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act can be seen as an acknowledgment that in some countries,the payment of speed money to government officials is necessary to get business done,and if not ethically desirable,it is at least ethically acceptable.This is in line with the straw man approach of:

A) the righteous moralist.
B) cultural relativism.
C) Leon Sullivan.
D) Immanuel Kant.

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Which of the following steps in a stakeholder analysis allows businesspeople to know if their decision process is working and if changes should be made to ensure greater compliance with a code of ethics?

A) Judging the ethics of the proposed decision
B) Establishing moral intent
C) Auditing of decisions
D) Engaging in ethical behavior

E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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An American manager in Colombia routinely pays off the local drug lord to guarantee that his plant will not be bombed and that none of his employees will be kidnapped.The manager argues that such payments are ethically defensible because everyone is doing it.This "drug lord problem" is a classic example of which one of the following straw man approaches to ethics?

In step two of stakeholder analysis,managers need to determine whether a proposed decision would violate the _____ of any stakeholders.

Evidence indicates that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of the United States put U.S.firms at a substantial competitive disadvantage.

Investment in China is frequently justified on the grounds that although China's human rights record is often questioned by human rights groups,and although the country is not a democracy,continuing inward investment will help boost economic growth,raise living standards,and usher in political change.

The straw man approach of righteous moralism is typically associated with managers from:

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a(n) :

Companies can strengthen the moral courage of employees by committing themselves to not retaliate against employees who exercise moral courage.

Situations in which none of the available alternatives seems ethically acceptable present an ethical dilemma.

Which of the following statements would be an argument that supports the U.S.Congress' exemption of facilitating payments from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act?

The Lockheed case-where the company made payments to Japanese officials and agents to secure a large contract from Nippon Air-was the impetus for the 1977 passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the United States.

A distribution of economic goods and services that is considered fair and equitable is a:

In its extreme viewpoint,_____ suggests that if a culture supports slavery,it is all right to use slave labor in the country.

Perrault Machines and Tools,an American multinational company,is looking for suppliers in Asia.It is,however,concerned about the working conditions in factories around the region.Which of the following is a good way for the company to guard against ethical abuses at its supplier's facilities?

Which one of the following belongs to an external stakeholder group of a company?

In stating that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that they are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood,Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights echoes:

Some contemporary moral philosophers view Kant's ethical philosophy as incomplete because his system has no place for:

Stakeholder analysis involves a certain amount of what has been called _____.This means standing in the shoes of a stakeholder and asking how a proposed decision might impact that stakeholder.

The belief that ethics are culturally determined and that firms should adopt the ethics of the cultures in which they operate is referred to as _____.