MGT610 Objective File For Final Term
MGT610 Objective File For Final Term
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FINALTERM EXAMINATION
Fall 2008
MGT610- Business Ethics (Session - 1)
Marks: 81
The ____________ refers to the potential conflict between management and shareholders
due to management's control of financial rewards as well as the possibility of
incompetent performance by managers.
Agency problem
Liquidity problem
Regulatory problem
Diversification problem
A shift to judgments based on rules or norms of a group to which the individual belongs
is characteristic of which level of moral development?
Post-formal
Pre-conventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
Commodities that are considered valuable only because they lead to other good things are
called:
Instrumental values
Intrinsic goods
Intrinsic values
Need
Want
Desire
Which of the following choices does NOT describe a situation that is covered by the
concept of rights?
Which of the following holds that all public offices and employment should be made
available to everyone?
Theory is redistributive
Theory is historical
Theory is no patterned
Adam Smith
Friedrich A. Hike
John Maynard Keynes argues that the aggregate demand for goods and services is the
sum of the demand of which of the following factor(s)?
Households
Businesses
Government
Which of the following is the price that just covers the costs of producing the commodity
including the going rate of profit obtainable in other markets?
Natural price
Selling price
Price flexibility
Market price
Which of the following refers to the undesirable and unintended contamination of the
environment by the manufacture or use of commodities?
Toxic substance
Pollution
Acid rain
Airborne toxic
Which of the following is a public policy view that holds that large firms should not be
broken up into smaller units but subjected to substantial governmental restraint and
controls?
Which of the following public policy view claims that the power of oligopolies is not as
large as it appears?
How many people in the world don t have access to safe water?
1 billion
1.5billion
2 billion
2.5 billion
If a firm makes basic goods (food product, clothing) for which the poor must allocate a
larger proportion of their budgets than the affluent. In this case which of the following
may place a heavier burden on the poor?
Social costs
Internalizing costs
Product costs
External costs
Which of the following requires that those who have been injured should be compensated
by those who injure them?
Rights
Utilitarian
Compensatory justice
Which of the following explains the bearing of external costs of pollution largely by
those who do not enjoy a net benefit from the activity that produces the pollution?
Ecological ethic
Social ecology
Environmental injustice
Eco-feminism
William Blackstone
Carol Gilligan
Robert Nozzick
John Locke
Which of the following describes the saving or rationing natural resources for future use?
Consumption
Conservation
Reservation
Critics to the market approach respond that the benefits of free markets are obtained only
when the markets have all of the following characteristics, EXCEPT:
Which of the following is NOT a problem with the assumption of rational utility
maximization?
People are generally irrational and inconsistent when weighing the choices
Our probability judgments go astray for a number of reasons, including all EXCEPT:
People believe that they exert control over purely chance events
Humans have no right to reduce the diversity of life except to satisfy vital needs
Appreciate the quality of life rather than striving for a higher standard of living
Non human parts of the environment deserve to be preserved for their own sake
According to critics of marker approach, how many characteristics market will have to
obtain the benefits of free market?
Which of the following is the main objection against the assumptions of contractual
theory?
Unrealistic
Impractical
Advertising is wasteful
The author must knowingly do something to bring about this false belief
The author must intend to have the audience believe something false
Multiple pricing
Monopoly
Perfect competition
Free market
Which of the following define that someone has a well defined and consistent set of
preferences, and who knows how personal choices will affect those preferences?
Utility maximization
Manufacturers utility
Which of the following is the period of time during which the product will function as
effectively as the consumer is to lead to expect it to function?
Service life
Maintainability
Product safety
Which of the following describes the ease with which the product can be repaired and
kept in operating condition?
Reliability
Service life
Maintainability
Product safety
Which of the following is a legal doctrine that holds that manufacturers must bear the
costs of injuries resulting from product defects regardless of fault?
Consumer s liability
Strict liability
Product liability
Brand loyalty
Consumer protection
Reliability
Which of the following is a proposed program where a large scale publicly funded
education program aimed at empowering ordinary citizens?
Investment in men
Investment in children
Investment in non-humans
What is the theme of the book "Limits to Growth"? What is its inference?
What are the various bases to determine the ethical nature of an advertisement?
Pollution always imposes external costs that is, costs for which the person who
produces the pollution does not have to pay. Pollution is fundamentally a problem of this
divergence between private and social costs. Explain why should this divergence be a
problem?
Give arguments for and against the critics of market to consumer issues.
Where did Ford Pinto go wrong? In other words, what contractual principles did they
violate?
Morality
Ethics
Business Ethics
Personal Ethics
Reversibility
Universalizability
Rule utilitarianism
Aristotle
Mill
Kant
Bentham
John Hicks
Maynard Keynes
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
Happiness
Whatever one’s local community thinks happiness is
Economic freedom
Free trade
Invisible hand
Three
Four
Five
Stockholders
Government agencies
Both a & b
1676
1776
1876
1976
Elementary school
Adulthood
Adolescence
Old age
Utilitarianism
Rights
Justice
Relevant
Justice concept
Right concept
Caring concept
Utilitarianism concept
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Demand only
Supply only
Individual
Organizational
Business system
Friendship
Love
Peace
Protect property
Enforce contracts
John Rawal
Kant
Carol Gilligan
Tying arrangement
Exclusive dealing arrangement
Retail price maintenance agreement
Manipulation of supply
Mixed markets
Liberal markets
Free markets
Which of the following choices does NOT describe a situation that is covered by the concept of
rights?
Select correct option:
Which theory claims that people would be lazy without private property?
Capitalism
Socialism
Utilitarianism
Both a & b
By habit
By dialectical argument
By rational instruction
Which philosopher defended the idea that we should always treat humanity as an end in itself rather
than a means?
Kant
Mill
Bentham
Rawls
The concept that there are no relevant differences among people that can justify unequal treatment
is known as?
Egalitarianism
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Commodities that are considered valuable only because they lead to other good things are called:
Instrumental goods
Instrumental values
Intrinsic goods
Intrinsic values
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Time bound
Accurate
Relevant
Complete
England
Germany
America
Greek
Which of the following are the criteria for determining moral right and wrong?
Universalizability
Reversibility
Both a & b
Rights
Justice
Both a & b
Individual
Organizational
Business system
Positive right
Basic need
Negative right
Capitalist systems
Socialist system
capitalist systems offer only two sources of income–owning the means of production and
Equality
Political equality
Economic equality
Human equality
Through utilitarianism offers a clear-cut method of calculating morality. What is the number of
problems identified with this method?
Select correct option:
Adam Smith
Friedrich A. Hike
Eric Mack
Both a & b
Free market systems have two main components: a private property system and a voluntary
exchange system. Pure free market systems would have absolutely no constraints on what on can
own and what one can do with it
Individual
Organizational
Business system
Both a & b
Which of the following refers to the ability of a person or a country to produce a particular good at a
lower opportunity cost than another country?
Comparative advantage
Resource efficiency
Natural advantage
Utilitarianism
Rights
Justice
Relevant
Which philosopher defended the idea that we should always treat humanity as an end in itself rather
than a means?
Mill
Bentham
Rawls
Which one of the following is NOT a trait of character that makes an individual a morally good
human being?
Courage
Temperance
Hope
Justice
The limited rights and correlative duties that arise when one person enters an agreement with
another person is the definition of:
Contract
Justice
Special obligations
Legal rights
Which one is the justice concern of blaming or punishing persons for doing wrong?
Distributive justice
Redistributive justice
Compensatory justice
Which of the following is the combining of two or more independent bodies into a single body?
Joint venture
Merger
Management contract
Licensing
Which one of the following does not come under Interpersonal Concordance Orientation?
Trust
Opinion
Affection
Loyalty
Business Enterprises
Banks
Insurance companies
Moral relativism
Moral absolutism
Categorical imperative
Universality
What was the number of the patients suffering from river blindness in Africa andLatin America?
16 million
17 million
17.5 million
18 million
How many considerations are there when to determine what the moral thing to do on any particular
occasion?
3
None of the above
The type with which one looks only at moral rules or actions of a particular type is known as?
Rule utilitarianism
Utilitarianism
Both a & b
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Which market approximates the model of the perfectly competitive free market?
Agricultural market
Commodity market
Securities market
Which one of the following is not considered as part of the three stages of moral development
proposed by Carol Gilligan?
principled morality
conventional morality
What is the number of characteristics that differentiate between moral and non-moral standards?
Difference principle
Original position
People
Government
Voters
Workers
The behavior respects the basic rights of the individuals involved and whether the behavior is
consistent with one's agreements and special duties is referred as?
Standards of justice
Standards of caring
Both a & b
Over time, more and more countries have moved toward greater economic freedom.
Countries ranking highest on this index tend to enjoy both the highest standards of living
Both a & b
Which one of the following study aims to discover “what should be”?
Descriptive Study
Normative Study
Study of Ethics
Which one of the following is not considered as category of issues involving justice?
Distributive justice
Retributive justice
Compulsory justice
Compensatory justice
Which one is the justice concern of blaming or punishing persons for doing wrong?
Distributive justice
Redistributive justice
Compensatory justice
None of the given
Moral standards are absorbed from?
Family & Friends
Experience
Intellectual capital
All of the above
Which principle of John Rawls assumes that a productive society will incorporate inequalities?
Principle 1
Principle 2
Part a of principle 2
Part b of principle 2
Which statement reflects the "punishment and obedience orientation" stage (stage one) of moral
development?
Select correct option:
I don't steal because my friends don't steal
I don't steal because I don't want to be spanked
I don't steal because it would harm society as a whole
I don't steal because it wouldn't be fair to everyone else if I did
A principle that describes that it would be acceptable to a group of rational, self interested persons
who know they will live under it themselves is known as?
Select correct option:
Moral
Basic
Immoral
None of the above
Which one of the following is not the basis of an important critical method in ethics?
Select correct option:
Counter examples
Hypothetical examples
Literature examples
Both a & b
Which one of the following ethic sees concrete communities and communal relationships as having
a fundamental value?
Select correct option:
The care of ethic
Demands of caring
Communitarian ethic
Socialism
MGT610- Business Ethics Solved Objective
For Final Term Exam Preparation
Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
The modern corporations consist of _____ _.
None of the given
Stock holders, Employees, Customers
Stock holders, Employees, Directors
Directors, Managers, Customers
Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which one of the following is NOT the criterion employed by different ethicists to evaluate moral
reasoning?
Moral reasoning must be logical
Factual evidence must be accurate, relevant, and complete
Moral standards must be consistent
Moral development must be ethical
Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Mujeeb and Imran are defendants charged by the government for insider trading.
According to the prisoner's dilemma scenario what will result in the worst outcome for Mujeeb?
Mujeeb confesses and Imran does not.
Both Mujeeb and Imran confess.
Both Mujeeb and Imran stay silent.
Mujeeb doesn't confess and Imran does.
Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Who is the supporter of Categorical Imperative?
Kant
Sidgwick
Bentham
Mill
Question No: 5 (Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
If Sameer destroy Sajjid s property or injure him bodily, Sameer will be held morally responsible for
paying him damages. This is an example of:
Redistributive justice
Compensatory justice
Distributive justice
Socialist s justice
Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Suppose a female manager supervises 10 people and one of them is a friend of hers. One day she catches
her friend stealing from the company. Should she turn in her friend as company policy requires or should
she say nothing to protect her friend? This is an example of?
1
_______by which actions or policies are judged to accord with or be in
violation of moral standards?
Select correct option:
Moral reasoning
Moral development
Moral Standards
Logical Validity
Page 10
Which of the following is a related group of thinkers, sees the key form
of hierarchy connected to the destruction of the environment as the
domination of women by men?
Select correct option:
Ethicists
Eco feminists
Friends of earth
Friends of world watch
Page 68
Eco-feminists, a related group of thinkers, see the key form of hierarchy
connected to the destruction of the environment as the domination of women
by men
Comparative Advantage:
In 1817 David Ricardo reasoned.
2
The Club of Rome, a forum of think-tanks consist of all except?
Select correct option:
Economists
Scientists
International civil servants
All of the above
Page74
The Club of Rome, a think-tank of scientists, economists, businesspeople,
international civil servants, and politicians from the five continents.
How much in over the past 150 years, deforestation has contributed to
the atmospheric build-up of CO2?
Select correct option:
One third
Two third
One fourth
None of the above
Page 59
Over the past 150 years, deforestation has contributed one third of the
atmospheric build-up of CO2
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Basic
Immoral
None of the above
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In which market system firms are not encouraged to reduce its costs?
Select correct option:
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Perfect competition
None of the above
Page 49
A monopoly firm is not encouraged to reduce its costs and is therefore not
motivated to find less costly methods of production.
4
Pollution comes from agriculture, mines, oil wells, human wastes,
manufacturing , detergents, and the food industry, among other sources
The debate about the rights of future generations centers on the extent to
which present generations should bear responsibility for the preservation of
the environment for future generation.
the benefits of pollution control should flow to those who have had to bear
the external costs of pollution
5
the relationship between a business firm and its customers is
essentially a contractual relationship
the modern corporation consists of (a) stockholders who contribute capital and
who own the corporation but whose liability for the acts of the corporation is
limited to the money they contributed, (b) directors and officers who administer
the corporation's assets and who run the corporation through various levels of
"middle managers," and (c) employees who provide labor and who do the basic
work related directly to the production of goods and services.
6
Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Mujeeb and Imran are defendants charged by the government
for insider trading.
According to the prisoner's dilemma scenario what will result in
the worst outcome for Mujeeb?
Mujeeb confesses and Imran does not.
Both Mujeeb and Imran confess.
Both Mujeeb and Imran stay silent.
Mujeeb doesn't confess and Imran does.
7
None of the given options
8
Liberalism
Socialism
9
Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which of the following refers to the undesirable and unintended
contamination of the environment by the manufacture or use of
commodities?
Toxic substance
Pollution(66p)
Acid rain
Airborne toxic
10
None of the given options
11
Thomas Klein(83p)
John Rawls
Samuel Johnson
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they have an equal right to the limited resources of this planet.
13
Which of the following is NOT a valid criticism on the ethics of
advertising?
Advertising uses images that many find vulgar and offensive
Advertising debases the tastes of consumers
Advertising is wasteful(108p)
Advertising promotes monopolies
14
Question No: 32 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which of the following is one of the areas of producer
responsibility according to due care theory?
Duty to produce healthy products(not sure)
Duty to disclosure
Duty not to coerce
Duty not to misrepresent
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Distribution
John K. Galbraith and other have long argued that advertising is manipulation
lative : it is the creation of desires in consumers for the sole purpose of absorbing
industrial output.
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Galbraith's major proposal was a program he called "investment in men" - a
large-scale publicly-funded education program aimed at empowering ordinary
citizens. Galbraith wished to entrust citizens with the future of the American
republic.
Honesty
Marketers should not exploit the credulity, lack of knowledge or inexperience of
consumers.
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Sell products to prospective buyers(108p)
Provide biased information
None of the given options
18
Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Commodities that are considered valuable only because they
good things are called:
Instrumental goods
Instrumental values
Intrinsic goods(21p)
Intrinsic values
(Intrinsic goods are things that are desired for their own sake, such as
health and life)
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The principle of equal liberty
The difference principle
The principle of equal opportunity(34p)
The principles of ethics
In 1776 Adam Smith asserted that the wealth of a nation consisted of the goods
and services available to its citizens.
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Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
John Maynard Keynes argues that the aggregate demand for
goods and services is the sum of the demand
of which of the following factor(s)?
Households
Businesses
Government
All of the given options(50p)
Smith called the natural price (i.e., the price that just covers the costs of
producing the commodity, including the going rate of profit obtainable in other
markets)
21
Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which of the following refers to the undesirable and unintended
contamination of the environment by the
manufacture or use of commodities?
Toxic substance
Pollution
Acid rain
Airborne toxic
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2.5 billion
Today, almost 1 billion people lack access to safe water and the world’s
per capita supplies of water are shrinking
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Who argued that there is a fundamental human right to a livable
environment?
William Blackstone(79p)
Carol Gilligan
Robert Nozzick
John Locke
Conservation refers to the saving or rationing of natural resources for later use.
Conservation, therefore, looks primarily to the future: to the need to limit
consumption now to have resources available for tomorrow.
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Many consumer markets are monopolies or oligopolies
Utility maximizer has a well-defined and consistent set of
preferences
25
Question No: 27 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
According to critics of marker approach, how many
characteristics market will have to obtain the benefits of free
market?
7(97p)
5
4
3
the markets have all of the seven defining characteristics: (a) There are
numerous buyers and sellers, (b) everyone can freely enter and exit the market,
(c) everyone has full and perfect information, (d) all goods in the market are
exactly similar, (e) there are no external costs, (f) all buyers and sellers are
rational utility maximizers, and (g) the market is unregulated. Critics of the market
approach to consumer issues argue that these characteristics are absent in
consumer markets.
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Which of the following is NOT a valid criticism on the ethics of
advertising?
Advertising uses images that many find vulgar and offensive
Advertising debases the tastes of consumers
Advertising is wasteful
Advertising promotes monopolies
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Question No: 34 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which of the following define that someone has a well defined
and consistent set of preferences, and who knows
how personal choices will affect those preferences?
Utility maximization
Rational utility maximizer(97p)
Manufacturers utility
None of the given options
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Question No: 38 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which of the following is a legal doctrine that holds that
manufacturers must bear the costs of injuries resulting
from product defects regardless of fault?
Manufacturers liability
Consumers liability
Strict liability(106p)
Product liability
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Investment in men
Investment in women
Investment in children
Investment in non-humans
Deceptive advertisement
Under estimated advertisement
Wrongly communicated advertisement
Professional advertisement
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each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
John Locke
Alasdair MacIntyre
John Rawls
Adam Smith............50
Eco-feminists ................
Eco-masculinity
Both a & b
None of the above
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Pilot Study
Case Study
Normative Study
Descriptive Study ..........5
Ethical justice
Retributive justice
Distributive justice
Compensatory justice
moral standards are first absorbed as child from family, friends, and various
societal influences such as church, school, television, magazines, music, and
associations.
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Let the buyer beware
The theory is a strong version of the doctrine of caveat vendor: let the seller take care.
Preservation
Conservation ...........87
Fossilization
Depletion
Moral virtues
Common decency
33
Utilitarianis m is a general term for any view that holds that actions and policies should
be evaluated on the basis of the benefits and costs they will impose on society. In any
situation, the "right" action or policy is the one that will produce the greatest net benefits
or the lowest net costs (when all alternatives have only net costs).
Adam Smith
John Rawls
Samuel Johnson
Wal-Mart page 4
Liver Brothers
Dashang Group
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, had sales of $258.7 billion and 1,400,000
employees;
Inte rnalizing the external cost is NOT consistent with which of the following?
Retributive justice
Distributive justice
Compensatory justice
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This way of dealing with pollution is consistent with the requirements of distributive justice
Internalizing external costs is also consistent with retributive and compensatory justice
Which of the following views argues that prices and profits in highly concentrated
industries are higher than they should be?
Discrimination view
Unethical view
Unlawful view
The antitrust vie w argues that prices and profits in highly concentrated industries are
higher than they should be
A relationship that exhibits the virtues of compassion, love, friendship, and loyalty is the
example of which theory?
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Select correct option:
Socialism
Communitarian ethics
This is central to the point of view known as the ethics of care, an approach to ethics that
many feminist ethicists have recently advanced. According to this method, we have an
obligation to exercise special care toward the people with whom we have valuable, close
relationships. Compassion, concern, love, friendship, and kindness are all sentiments
or virtues that normally manifest this dimension of morality
Justice
Right
Buyers and sellers can freely and immediately enter or leave the market
There are numerous buyers and sellers, none of whom has a substantial share of the
market
External parties regulate the price, quantity, or quality of the goods being bought
and sold in the market page 45
1. There are numerous buyers and sellers, none of whom has a substantial share of the
market.
2. All buyers and sellers can freely and immediately enter or leave the market.
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3. Every buyer and seller has full and perfect knowledge of what every other buyer and
seller is doing, including knowledge of the prices, quantities, and quality of all goods
being bought and sold.
4. The goods being sold in the market are so similar to each other that no one cares from
whom each buys or sells.
5. The costs and benefits of producing or using the goods being exchanged are borne
entirely by those buying or selling the goods and not by any other external parties.
6. All buyers and sellers are utility maximizers: Each tries to get as much as possible for
as little as possible.
7. No external parties (such as the government) regulate the price, quantity, or quality of
any of the goods being bought and sold in the market.
“The possession of a livable environment is something to which every human being has a
right.” Who argued this statement?
Lawrence Kohlberg
Carol Gilligan
Robert Nozick
Which one of the following asserts that morality varies from one culture to another?
Ethical relativism
Norm relativism
Cultural relativism asserts that morality varies from one culture to another
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Who argues that though it is unjust to impose heavy burdens on present generations for
the
sake of the future?
John Locke
Adam smith
John Rawls, on the other hand, argues that though it is unjust to impose heavy burdens on
present generations for the sake of the future
The person's reasons for acting must be reasons that he or she would be willing to have
all
others use, even as a basis of how they treat him or her is known as?
Reversibility page 21
Universalizability
Rule utilitarianism
Reversibility means the person's reasons for acting must be reasons that he or she would
be willing to have all others use, even as a basis of how they treat him or her
Which of the following view can be seen as a middle ground between the othe r two?
Those who advocate this view do not wish to lose the economies of scale offered by large
corporations, but they also wish to ensure that large firms do not harm the consumers.
Antitrust View
Normative View
Business View
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The Regulation vie w, which can be seen as a middle ground between the other two.
Those who advocate regulation do not wish to lose the economies of scale offered by
large corporations, but they also wish to ensure that large firms do not harm the
consumers.
Accounting
Business Ethics
Management
In a business application, a shadow price is the maximum price that management is willing to
pay for an extra unit of a given limited resource. For example, if a production line is already
operating at its maximum 40-hour limit, the shadow price would be the maximum price the
manager would be willing to pay for operating it for an additional hour, based on the benefits
he would get from this change.
Who argued that adve rtising me rely manipulates consumers, creating desires solely to
absorb industrial output?
John Rawal
Adam Smith
John Kenneth Galbraith and other critics have long argued that advertising merely
manipulates
consumers, creating desires solely to absorb industrial output
Retributive justice
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Compensatory justice
Internalizing external costs is also consistent with retributive and compensatory justice,
3 Million
2 Million page 59
1 Million
The number of plant and animal species inhabiting the planet is not accurately known.
Nearly 2
million species have been identified,
Inte rnalizing the costs of pollution is problematic due to which of the following reasons?
Pollution-control devices are expensive and can even put people out of work
Market mechanisms cannot provide cost-cutting incentives to ensure that prices reflect
the true costs of production
A problem with this way of internalizing the costs of pollution, however, is that when
several polluters are involved,
Family
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Friends
School
Which of the following justify the theory of contractual view of business’ duties?
Kant
Rawls
Adam Smith
Both Kant's and Rawls' theories offer justification for this view, and traditional moralists
also remind us that contracts are subject to three moral constraints
When a company charges different price to different buyers for the same goods or
services
then practice is known as?
Price Fixing
Price adjustment
Price Discrimination - when a company charges different prices to different buyers for
the same goods or services.
Which principle of John Rawls assumes that a productive society will incorporate
inequalities?
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Principle 1
Principle 2 page 25
Part a of principle 2
Part b of principle 2
Part of Principle 2 is called the diffe rence principle. It assumes that a productive society
will incorporate inequalities,
Conservation of energy
Virtue
Intuitionism
Deontological
Teleological
Positive right
Basic need
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None of the above
2 page 10
Free market
Monopolistic market
Oligopolistic market
Mixed market
Intoxic substances
Agri substances
The pollution of the land by toxic substances also causes increased mortality and illness
When a person is entitled to act in a certain way or is entitle d to have others act in a
certain way toward him or her is known as?
43
Right page 18
Justice
Basic needs
Forced selling and forced buying are the main features of which economic system?
Mixed economy
Free Economy
Controlled economy
Stockholders
Customers
Both a & b
Which one is the justice concern of blaming or punishing persons for doing wrong?
Distributive justice
Redistributive justice
Compensatory justice
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Retributive justice concerns blaming or punishing those who do wrong
Who proposed that human beings have a "natural right" to liberty and a "natural
right" to private property?
Alasdair MacIntyre
John Rawls
The destruction of nature that has accompanied male domination must be replaced with
caring and nurturing of relationships with nature is known as?
Ethics of utility
Ethics of justice
According to the ethics of caring, the destruction of nature that has accompanied male
domination must be replaced with caring for and nurturing our relationships with nature
and
other living things
Marketing
Logistic
Design page 85
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None of the above
Due care must enter into the product's design, choice of materials and construction methods
Group of thinkers, sees the key form of hierarchy connected to the destruction of the
environme nt as the domination of women by me n is known as?
Eco- masculinity
Both a & b
Eco- feminists, a related group of thinkers, see the key form of hierarchy connected to the
destruction of the environment as the domination of women by men
When companies agree to set prices artificially high the practice is known as?
Price adjustment
Price Discrimination
Who has used the theory of natural right by Locke to argue for free market?
Adam smith
John Locke
Alasdair MacIntyre
46
Select correct option:
Agriculture
Oil Wells
Manufacturing
Command system
Free market systems have two main components: a private property system and a
voluntary
exchange system
Which of the following is an economic system in which the means of production are
privately owned and operated for a profit?
Communism
Capitalis m
Liberalism
Socialism
47
Green marketing page 67
Red marketing
Industrial marketing
FMCG marketing
"Act in such a way that "you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in
the
person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."
said
by?
John Rawal
Kant page 21
Carol Gilligan
The second formulation Kant gives of the categorical imperative is this: "Act in such a
way that
you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,
never
simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."
1974
1984 page 44
1994
2004
Township and village enterprises (TVEs) obtained materials, labor, and capital on open
market and used a private distribution system. Legalized in 1984,
48
Who has stated the principle of comparative advantage?
Adam Smith
Eli Heckscher
Bertil Ohlin
The assumption that buyer and seller meet each other as equals in the sale agreement
Which state ment reflects the "punishme nt and obedience orientation" stage (stage one)
of
moral development?
Cultural Relativism
49
Descriptive Relativism
Epistemological Relativism
Which theory states that consumers and sellers do not meet at equal levels?
Contractual theory
Justice theory
Utilitrian theory
The due care theory of the manufacturer's duties to consumers is based on the idea that
consumers and sellers do not meet as equals
______is defined as Tendency to make ethical choices only on the basis of what looks
right
or reasonable according to one's own belief or value system.
Ethical Relativis m
Cultural Relativism
Descriptive Relativism
Epistemological Relativism
A tendency to make ethical choices only on the basis of what looks right or reasonable
according to one's own belief or value system.
The main diffe rence between Gilligan and Kohlberg was that Gilligan e mphasized?
50
Carol Gilligan, a feminist psychologist, has also criticized Kohlberg's theory on the
grounds
that it describes male and not female patterns of moral development. Gilligan claims that
there
is a "female" approach to moral issues that Kohlberg ignores.
How much in over the past 150 years, deforestation has contributed to the atmos phe ric
build-up of CO2?
Two third
One fourth
Over the past 150 years, deforestation has contributed one third of the atmospheric build-
up of
CO2,
Natural advantage
Acquired advantage
Comparative Advantage:
In 1817 David Ricardo reasoned.
51
Deceptive advertisement page 116
Professional advertisement
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs page 33
The socialist view on distribution: “From each according to his ability, to each
according to his needs.”
John Locke
Alasdair MacIntyre
John Rawls
52
Select correct option:
Pilot Study
Case Study
Normative Study
A descriptive study is one that does not try to reach any conclusions about
what things are truly good or bad or right or wrong. Instead, a descriptive study
attempts to describe or explain the world without reaching any conclusions about
whether the world is as it should be
Experience
Intellectual capital
53
Let the buyer beware
The theory is a strong version of the doctrine of caveat vendor: let the seller
take care.
Which of the following refers to the saving or rationing of natural resources for
later use?
Preservation
Conservation page 88
Fossilization
Depletion
Conservation refers to the saving or rationing of natural resources for later use
Commodities that are considered valuable only because they lead to other good
things are called:
Instrumental values
Intrinsic goods
Intrinsic values
Intrinsic goods are things that are desired for their own sake, such as health
and life. These goods always take precedence over instrumental goods, which
are things that are good because they help to bring about an intrinsic good
54
Which one of the following quoted about adve rtising "promise, large promise, is the
soul of advertising".
David oglivy
Kant
Samuel Johnson
Jul 17, 2007 - Morris Hite, quoted in Adman: Morris Hite's Methods for Winning the Ad
Game – 1988. “Promise, large promise, is the soul of Advertising”.
The behavior respects the basic rights of the individuals involved and whether the
behavior is consistent with one's agreements and special duties is referred as?
Standards of justice
Standards of caring
Standards that specify how individuals must be treated - must be employed when our
actions and policies will substantially affect the welfare and freedom of specifiable
individuals. Moral reasoning of this type forces consideration of whether the behavior
respects the basic rights of the individuals involved and whether the behavior is
consistent with one's agreements and special duties
How many types of chemical compounds are currently being used in the USA?
50,000
55,000
58,000 page 75
60,000
55
Over 58,000 different chemical compounds are currently being used in the U.S.,
and the number is increasing each year
Both 2 & 3
Ethics is "the study of morality." Ethicists use the term ethics to refer primarily to
the study of morality.
Pakistan
Japan
USA page 31
Oil
Coal
Wind
56
Natural gas
Rawls
Adam Smith
Methane gas
Oxygen gas
Free market systems have two main components: a private property system and
a voluntary exchange system.
57
Which one of the following is a type of moral standards?
Utilitarianism
Rights
Justice
John Hicks
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
When a company sells to a retaile r only on condition that the retaile r will not
purchase products from other companies and will not sell outside a certain
geographical area is known as?
Tying Arrangements
58
A natural gas leak explosion happened in New London School of Texas in which
year?
1917
1927
1937 page 94
In 1937, a natural gas leak was responsible for the New London School
explosion in Texas
Selling cost
Total cost
The aim of the moral life is to develop the dispositions that we call virtues, and to
exercise them as well is referred to as?
Ethics theory
Relationship theory
Virtue theory says that the aim of the moral life is to develop the dispositions
that we call virtues, and to exercise them as well
59
Which one of the following is the principal Utilitarian remedy for pollution?
Which of the following de mands that manufacturer should pay the costs of all
injuries caused by defect in a product even if exercised due care?
Contractual theory
Advertising ethics
On this basis, the theory argues that a manufacturer should bear the social costs
for injuries caused by defects in a product even when no negligence was
involved and no contractual relationship existed between the manufacturer and
user.
Which one of the following lie at the core of the most serious ecological dislocations?
Economic
Ethnic
Gender conflicts
60
All of the above page 86
Economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender conflicts, among many others, lie at the
core of the most serious ecological dislocations we face today
Environmental ethics is the discipline that studies the moral relationship of?
Human beings
Environment
Which one of the following is not considered as part of the three stages of moral
development proposed by Carol Gilligan?
Principled morality
Conventional morality
Forced relationship
61
Contractual relationship page 102
The relationship between a busi ness firm and its customers is essentially a
contractual relationship
4 page 103
Ignorance
Inability
Which of the following refers to the reasoning process by which human behaviors,
institutions, or policies are judged to be in accordance or not with moral standards?
62
Moral duty
Moral justice
In monopolistic markets?
In a monopoly, two of the seven conditions are absent: there is only one seller,
and other sellers cannot enter the market
Reversibility objection
Universalizability objection
Consumerism
63
Conversion
Conservation page 88
Aristotle
Mill
Kant
Bentham page 19
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Bentham's idea of a precise quantitative method for decision making is most fully
realized in a cost-benefit analysis
When there are nume rous buyers and sellers, none of whom has a substantial share
of the market, and then such system is known as?
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Perfect Competition
In a perfectly free competitive market, no buyer or seller has the power to
significantly affect the price of a good. Seven features characterize such markets:
1. There are numerous buyers and sellers, none of whom has a substantial share
of the market.
64
Select correct option:
All of the following are reasons to show that future generations have no rights on
world’s resources, EXCEPT:
It is absurd that we must sacrifice our entire civilization for their sake
It is unjust for present generations to leave nothing for future generations page 87,
88
Psychic wants have been around longer than advertising in any case page 110
It is not clear, however, that this view is correct, and theorists such as F. A. von
Hayek have pointed out that psychic wants have been around longer than
advertising in any case.
The type with which one looks only at moral rules or actions of a particular type is
known as?
65
Select correct option:
Utilitarianism
Both a & b
A payment made to induce the payee to perform what is his or her official duty
A payme nt made to a payee who de mands the payment by threatening injury to the
payer's inte rests
A payment made to bribe an official, but this is a locally accepted public custom
66
Parking laws
Both a & b
Moral relativism
Moral absolutism
Categorical imperative
Universality
Which of the following views argues that prices and profits in highly concentrated
industries are higher than they should be?
Discrimination view
Unethical view
Unlawful view
The antitrust view argues that prices and profits in highly concentrated
industries are higher than they should be
Which of the following school of thought support the view point of ecological ethic
that the welfare of at least some nonhumans is intrinsically valuable and deserving
of respect and protection?
Utilitarian
67
Rights
2022
2035
2043 page 69
2050
Which of the following is the largest organization for the calculation of data on
environme nt?
Club of Rome
GEF
UINDO
The kind of care that is owed to those with whom we have special concrete
relationships is known as?
68
Select correct option:
Utilitarian standards
Standards of justice
Standards of caring - indicate the kind of care that is owed to those with whom
we have special concrete relationships.
Justice concept
Right concept
Caring concept
Social audit (a report of the social costs and social benefits of the firm’s
activities).
The benefits of pollution control should flow to those who have had to bear?
69
Internal cost of pollution
Both a & b
The benefits of pollution control should flow to those who have had to bear the
external costs of pollution.
Which one of the following a moral reason of contractual theory of business ?
Compliance duty
Misrepresentation duty
30
32
35
37 page 91
One of the best known warning voices was contained in the book "Limits to
Growth", published in 1972. It sold twelve million copies in 37 languages.
David oglivy
70
Kant
Samuel Johnson
None of the above ...........
Jul 17, 2007 - Morris Hite, quoted in Adman: Morris Hite's Methods for
Winning the Ad Game – 1988. “Promise, large promise, is the soul of
Advertising”.
Ethics is
"the study of morality."
60,000
Pakistan
Japan
USA .............30
None of the above
71
Question # 18 of 20 ( Start time: 05:00:38 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Fossil fuels include all except?
Select correct option:
Oil
Coal
Wind ...........
Natural gas
Rawls
Kant.........101
Adam Smith
None of the given options
72
Which of the following is the most influential critic of Adam Smith?
Select correct option:
John Hicks
Maynard Keynes...........50
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
Tying Arrangements
Exclusive Dealing Arrangements ..........63
Retail Price Maintenance Agreements
None of the above
1917
1927
1937 .........93
None of the above
73
In 1937, a natural gas leak was responsible for the New London
School explosion in Texas.
Ethics theory
Relationship theory
Virtue theory .......39
None of the above
Virtue theory says that the aim of the moral life is to develop
the dispositions that we call
virtues, and to exercise them as well.
74
Due care theory
Contractual theory
Social costs view ...106
Advertising ethics
On this basis, the theory argues that a manufacturer should bear the
social costs for injuries caused by defects in a product even when no
negligence was involved and no contractual relationship existed
between the manufacturer
anduser.
Economic
Ethnic
Gender conflicts
All of the above.........85
Ethicists
Eco feminists ...........86
Friends of earth
Friends of world watch
75
key form of hierarchy connected to the destruction of the
environment as the domination of women by men.
Finally, critics of this theory point out that the assumption that
buyer and seller meet on equal ground is false. Buyers and
sellers are not equally skilled; the seller is in a much stronger
position than the buyer. Sellers only have to know their own
products, while buyers need to know about every sellers’ products for
every commodity they purchase.
76
Human beings
Enviornment
Both a & b ............68
None of the above
1
2
3
4.........102
Marketing
Logistic
77
Design
None of the above ...........105
Ignorance
Inability
Both a & b ...........15
None of the above
Ignorance and inability to do otherwise are two conditions,
called excusing conditions,
consmerism
conversion
conservation .............87
None of the above
78
Generally, conservation refers to the saving of finite, depletable
resources.
79
The most common criticism of advertising concerns is its effect
5 ........20
4
3
2
John Hicks
Maynard Keynes............50
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
One especially influential critic of Smith was John Maynard
Keynes.
80
A payment made to induce the payee to perform what is his or her official
duty
A payment made to a payee who demands the payment by threatening
injury to the payer's interests .............
A payment made to bribe an official, but this is a locally accepted public
custom
No payment has been made unethically
Parking laws
Dress codes law
Both a & b ...........14
None of the above
Antitrust View
Regulation view .....66
Normative View
Business View
81
The idea that moral rightness or wrongness is culture-dependent is an
example of
Select correct option:
Discrimination view
Unethical view
Unlawful view
Second, the antitrust view argues that prices and profits in highly
concentrated industries are
higher than they should be
82
Oligopoly
None of the above
50,000
55,000
58,000 .............74
60,000
Utilitarian
Rights
83
An ecological ethic, therefore, claims that the welfare of at least
some nonhumans is
intrinsically valuable and deserving of respect and protection.
Utilitarian and rights arguments
both support such a view.
2022
2035
2043 ......68
2050
Club of Rome
World Watch Institute ????not sure
GEF
UINDO
Utilitarian standards
Standards of justice
Standards of caring ....37
None of the above
84
Standards of caring - indicate the kind of care that is owed to
those with whom we
have special concrete relationships. Standards of caring are
essential when moral
questions arise that involve persons embedded in a web of
relationships, particularly
persons with whomone has closerelationships,especiallythose of
dependency.
Command system
Justice concept
Right concept
Caring concept
Utilitarianism concept .....16
85
A report of social benefits of firm’s activities
A report of social costs and social benefits of firm’s activities ............82
None of these statements is correct
a social audit (a report of the social costs and social benefits of the
firm's activities)
The benefits of pollution control should flow to those who have had to bear
the external
costs of pollution
Compliance duty
Misrepresentation duty
Coerce duty
All of the above ..........102
86
One fourth
None of the above
Over the past 150 years, deforestation has contributed one third of the
atmospheric build-up of
CO2,
John Locke
Alasdair MacIntyre
John Rawls
Adam Smith.........50
30
32
35
37 ........90
87
All goods in the market are exactly disimilar ............96
Everyone has full and perfect information
The market is unregulated
There are no external costs
Social costs include the costs that the firm does not pay the costs of
pollution and medical care that result from the manufacture of the
commodities
Natural advantage
comparative advantage ........47
Acquired advantage
Resource efficiency advantage
Stockholders
88
Directors and employees
Government agencies
3
4 .............
2
None of the above
Karl’s principle
Nozick’s principle .............p33
Blanc’s principle
None of the above
Adam Smith..............50
Karl Marx
John Locke
89
John Maynard Keynes
Reversibility
Universalizability ..............p27
Rule utilitarianism
None of the above
John Locke............42
Alasdair MacIntyre
John Rawls
None of the above
90
Question # 8 of 20 ( Start time: 09:30:26 PM ) Total Marks: 1
In which country Locke’s property rights have been influential?
Select correct option:
England
Germany
America .......43
Greek
Ethics theory
Relationship theory
Individualistic
91
Communitarian
Both a & b ....42
None of the above
In general, two important ideological camps, the individualistic and
communitarian viewpoints, characterize modern societies.
Justice theory
Right theory
Virtue theory .......39
None of the above
Justice concept
Right concept
Caring concept
Utilitarianism concept ?????????????
Free trade
92
Economic freedom
Invisible hand.......
Natural advantage
comparative advantage .............47
Acquired advantage
Resource efficiency advantage
Comparative Advantage
In 1817 David Ricardo reasoned that there would still be gains
from trade if a country specialized in the production of those
things it can produce most efficiently, even if other countries can
produce those same things even more efficiently.
Thinking carefully
Reading what others have written about the idea
Trying all possible definitions
All of the given options ??????????
Need
Want ????????
Desire
None of the given
93
Every person should be given equal shares of a society’s or a group’s
benefits and burdens referred as?
John Rawls
Kantian .....34
Carl Max
None of the above
Kohlberg
None of the given options
94
Question # 2 of 20 ( Start time: 09:49:21 PM ) Total Marks: 1
Who has proposed the most "surprising" and "counterintuitive"
concept in economics?
Select correct option:
Ricardo ..........51
John Locke
Alasdair MacIntyre
Adam Smith
Right .....23
Justice
Basic needs
None of the above
Positive right
Basic need
Negative right .........23
None of the above
95
Privacy is an example of a negative right ;
Individualistic
Communitarian
Both a & b ............
None of the above
John Hicks
Maynard Keynes.........50
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
96
None of the above
Gilligan
Kohlberg
Henry Fayol ????????
None of the above
USA
Japan.............30
Pakistan
None of the above
97
Select correct option:
Benevolence
Moderation
Tolerance
All of the above ....39
Game theory
Prisoner’s dilemma
Moral Reasoning ..........
Moral responsibility
Protect property
Enforce contracts
Keep market place open
A vision for community...42
Principle 1
98
Principle 2 .............34
Part a of principle 2
Part b of principle 2
Enron............. p7
General Motors
Dell Computers
Wal-Mart
99