Multiple choice

1. Happy Feet manufactures shoes in Country Y for sale in the United States. Happy Feet's president discovers that the Country Y workers' average age is sixteen and that they work on average of 13.2 hours per day in a 90 degree warehouse with insufficient safety precautions, all of which practices are legal in Country Y. The president of Happy Feet decides to improve the working hours and conditions of the company's workforce, even though these actions will be more expensive for the company. The president's decision is best described as

a. Lawful profit maximization

b. Moral profit-making

c. Illegal since the shareholders of Happy Feet might be harmed

d. Social Darwinism.

2. Biotech Research Associates asks it employees to consider ethical behavior from the Categorical Imperative perspective. This ethical approach

a. Allows a person to legally control the behavior who behave unethically

b. Does not permit individuals to engage in socially responsible actions

c. Focuses primarily on personal advancement

d. Forces a person to consider what would happen as the result of one's 

action if everyone behaved in a similar way.

3. A war against the repressive government erupts in Country X. The U.S. Congress wants to draft U.S. citizens into the military to help the people of Country X fight for independence. Members of Congress believe that although some U.S. troops may die, hundreds of thousands of people in Country X will be given freedom. The President of the U.S., however, believes that individuals should have the right to choose from themselves whether to fight or not and thus opposes the idea of a draft. The President's feelings closely mirror

a. Kantian ethics

b. Utilitarianism

c. Corporate social responsibility

d. Plato's ethics.

4. Which of the following is the most accurate statement?

a. A small shareholder can never be held morally responsible for what a large 

corporation does.

b. One function of a corporate ethics audit will be to conduct a moral audit of

the firm to ascertain if it is acting morally.

c. The principal purpose of a moral audit of the firm is to ensure that the 

company  is acting in a legal manner.

d. A corporate code of ethics needs only to restate minimum legal principles and 

rules in its "practices" section.