QUESTION Shangrilah Sandals is a manufacturing firm in a developing country, where it routinely uses grease payments to local officials to expedite overseas shipments. It has decided to open a plant in the United States, and has determined that it would not offer any facilitating payments to U.S. officials. Shangrilah’s behavior illustrates the straw man […]
QUESTION Which of the following is most likely to lead to unethical behavior in a business setting? A. A strong sense of personal ethics exhibited by employees B. Expatriate managers working away from their ordinary social context and supporting culture C. Providing managers with a moral compass or an ethical algorithm D. Large business corporations […]
QUESTION A righteous moralist is most likely to claim that: A. a multinational’s home-country standards of ethics are the appropriate ones for companies to follow in foreign countries. B. a firm should adopt the ethics of the culture in which it is operating. C. people should be treated as ends and never purely as means […]
QUESTION Unipeg Corporation has uniform high sales targets for its employees all across the globe, regardless of the environmental constraints in each market. Employees are penalized for any shortfall. This has caused many employees to falsify the values of their sales. In this context, the roots of unethical behavior can be traced to: A. unrealistic […]
QUESTION The straw man approach of righteous moralism is typically associated with managers from: A. developing countries. B. totalitarian nations. C. BRIC nations. D. developed nations. E. war-torn countries. ANSWER D
QUESTION Which of the following is most likely to reduce the pressure on managers to violate their personal ethics? A. Making managers work away from their ordinary social context and supporting culture B. Keeping managers psychologically and geographically close to the parent company C. Pressuring managers to meet unrealistic business goals D. Adopting an organizational […]
QUESTION Silver Meteorite Inc. is a multinational company whose home country, Palumbia Republic, considers grease payments as both illegal and unethical. Hence, the company has a zero-tolerance approach toward grease payments irrespective of any of its host nations’ perspectives toward such payments. In this context, Silver Meteorite Inc. is following the approach to ethics known […]
QUESTION In a business setting, managers sometimes do not realize they are behaving unethically, primarily because they: A. fail to take into account the ethical dimension of business decisions. B. ignore business variables such as cost, delivery, and product quality. C. have a strong system of personal ethics. D. abide by the concept of noblesse […]
QUESTION The term global commons refers to: A. social norms and values that are common across the globe. B. a group of nations that share similar ideologies on globalization. C. natural resources from which everyone benefits but for which no one is specifically responsible. D. common laws to be obeyed by companies involved in international […]
QUESTION The Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions: A. makes it mandatory for companies to adhere to the pollution control standards of their home country in all the nations in which they do business. B. does not consider facilitating payments a criminal offense. C. makes grease payments mandatory in […]
