Multiple choice

Question 1

Andersen works for the public relations department of Sigma Sales Company. His job includes putting a "good face" and a positive "spin" on the company's successes as well as its failures and shortcomings. In this context, "ethics" mainly consists of

Machiavellianism

Aristotle's Virtue Ethics

Plato's conception of a "just" organization

"Revealed" higher truths.

Question 2

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

Morals are legal minimums.

Morals are legal maximums.

Laws are moral minimums.

Laws are moral maximums.

Question 3

Fine Clothes Company buys clothing assembled by Gamma, Ltd, a foreign firm that employs young children for long hours and low pay. Gamma's nation does not enforce its child labor laws. Human International Politics (HIP), a political activist organization, discovers Fine Clothes' connection to Gamma and plans to reveal this information. Before HIP does so, however, Fine Clothes publicly releases the information itself, states that it is "shocked and disappointed" by Gamma, and announces that it is severing its relationship with Gamma. Fine Clothes adroitly publicizes its action in its advertising, and the company's sales and profits increase, apparently as a direct result. From an ethical perspective, Fine's conduct can best be characterized as

Legal, moral, and socially responsible

Ethically egoistic

Immoral since most advertisers usually misrepresent things

In conformity with Kantian ethics.

Question 4

ran, an executive with Global Sales Corporation, has to decide whether to market a useful product that nonetheless might have undesirable side-effects for a small number of users. What ethical theory 

would the Sophists advise her to use so that her firm can morally market the product?

Kantian ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility

Utilitarianism