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Ethics officers act as an internal ombudsperson with responsibility for handling confidential inquiries from employees.

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B) False

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In its home country, Barat's Boxes 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. Barat's Boxes behavior illustrates the straw man approach of

A) the righteous moralist.
B) cultural relativism.
C) ethnocentrism.
D) just distribution.
E) cultural convergence.

F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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Under John Rawls's concept of the veil of ignorance, people are imagined to be ignorant of their

Describe how violation of the apartheid laws by Western businesses helped improve human rights in South Africa.

Describe how the veil of ignorance plays a role in John Rawls's principles of justice.

Who asserts that all economic goods and services should be distributed equally except when an unequal distribution would work to everyone's advantage?

Compare and contrast cultural relativism and righteous moralism.

The Sullivan principles stem from the beliefs of Leon Sullivan who felt it was not ethical for General Motors to operate in South Africa unless the company participated in apartheid laws for its African operations.

The phenomenon known as the tragedy of the commons occurs when multiple companies attempt to produce and sell the same products.

Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights implies that it is unethical to employ child labor in sweatshop settings and pay less than subsistence wages, even if that happens to be common practice in some countries. This is in contrast to

In order to create a business culture that places a high value on ethical behavior, a system of incentives and rewards must be in place.

The term global commons refers to

Johan is the manager of CycleUp and has agreed to build a new manufacturing plant in Argentina. He realizes this decision will cause him to shut down a small plant in Ohio, but he decides that since the new facility will cut his operating costs in half, that is worth more than closing a plant employing ten people. Which philosophical approach to ethics does this demonstrate?

One concern with the utilitarian approach is that the action that produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people may result in the unjustified treatment of a minority.

What practice should a company avoid to ensure ethical decision making?

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

Bethany works for FastFashion Inc. which has set the same sales target for all employees in their 550 stores across the globe. The company fails to take into account any environmental constraints which might hamper sales and to avoid being penalized, employees often falsify their sales reports. What is triggering the employees' unethical behavior?

Kantian philosophy would view ________ as an ethical violation.

Green Quantum Inc. has research and production units all across the globe. The company expects its expatriate managers to adopt the ethics propagated by the culture in which they operate their respective units. Even in situations when others consider certain actions as unethical, the company allows its managers to pursue such actions if they are permitted in the host nation. Green Quantum is following

Financial Resources Inc. paid a sum of $50,000 to an official of a foreign government to ensure that the company obtained exclusive preferential treatment. The $50,000 can be classified as