BUSINESS ETHICS

MCQ,s
1) The three major types of ethical issues include except?
A) Communication issues
B) Systematic issues
C) Corporate issues
D) Individual issues

2) ______is the philosophical study of moral values and rules.

A) Morality

B) Ethics

C) Business Ethics

D) Philosophy

3) A(n) ________ is a problem, situation, or opportunity requiring an individual, group, or organization

to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong.

A) Crisis

B) Ethical issue

C) Fraud

D) Indictment

4) A document prepared to guide organization members when encountering ethical dilemmas is a

A) Outline of expected behaviour

B) Code of rules

C) List of rules and responsibility

D) Code of ethics

5) Which of the following is a characteristics of ethics

A) It presumed to the moral obligation

B) It is an old concepts

C) It is a universal philosophy

D) All of the above

6) "We wish to be good citizens of every community in which we operate." This is

A) Ethical Code

B) Political and Social Code

C) Legal Rule

D) Legal Act

7) The acronym CSR stands for

A) Corporate Search and Rescue

B) Corporate Social Responsibility

C) Corporate Sensitive Reliability

D) Corporate Social Reality

8) All those who are affected by or can affect the operations of the organization are known as:

A) Owners

B) Interested parties

C) Stakeholders

D) Stockholders

9) Which statement is/are true?

A) Ethics is not synonymous to religious morality or moral theology

B) Ethics is the principle that guide the human behaviour

C) The terms 'ethics' and 'morality' are not synonymous terms

D) All of the above

10) Corporate social responsibility that extends beyond legal mandates can help meet societal
expectations in the absence of

A) Statutory devices

B) Social tool

C) Cost tool and Techniques

D) Science tool

11) Why, according to stakeholder theory, is it in companies' best interests to pay attention to their
Stakeholders?

A) If firms only act in their own self-interest employees may feel exploited

B) If firms only act in their own self-interest government might put more regulation on them

C) If firms only act in their own self-interest customers might not like the image that the company

Portray

D) If firms only act in their own self-interest and inflict harm on stakeholders then society might

Withdraw its support

12) What is triple bottom line?

A) An accounting tool that looks at the impact on people, planet and profits

B) A management strategy which states all the attention should be on profits

C) An accounting tool that looks at cost, profit and loss

D) A management strategy which focuses on corporate social responsibility

13) Which of the following does the term Corporate Social Responsibility relate to?

A) Ethical conduct

B) Human rights and employee relations

C) All of the above

D) None of the above

14) How is ethical leadership applied?

A) To be an ethical leader, we must be sensitive to the needs of others, treat others in ways that are
just, and care for others

B) Ethical leadership can be used at all levels and for all types of tasks

C) By assessing their own behaviours, managers can determine how they are coming across to others
and change their behaviours to be more effective

D) Shows how leaders pick and develop their relationships with the people closest to them allowing
them to have more responsibility in the workplace

15) How do ethical leaders build community?

A) You must take into account the purposes of everyone involved in the group and be attentive to the
interests of the community and the culture

B) Place issues of fairness at the center of their decision making

C) Treat others as ends rather than means

D) Must be willing to be follower centered and act in ways that will benefit others

16) Which one of the following is a strength of ethical leadership?

A) They are primarily descriptive and anecdotal

B) Strike a balance between being open and candid while monitoring what’s important

C) Provides a body of timely research on ethical issues

D) Provides a wide set of behaviours

17) What is one of the characteristics of ethics?

A) Focuses on innate qualities and characteristics of social, political, and military leaders

B) Provides a basis for understanding what it means to be a morally decent human being

C) Explains how leaders combine two kinds of behaviours to influence others

D) Inclination to seek out pleasant social relationship

18) SDG stands for

A) Sustainable Development Goals

B) Standard Diplomatic Goals

C) Suitable develop grounds

D) Suitable Digital Growth

19) How many sustainable development goals are there?

A) 15

B) 20

C) 17

D) 8

20) Which of the following is not a sustainable development goal?

A) Eliminate racism in all its forms

B) Climate action

C) Clean water and sanitation

D) Good health and well-being

21) Unethical behaviour is often triggered by

A) Pressure from higher management to achieve goals

B) An organizational atmosphere that condones such behaviour

C) Both (a) & (b)

D) A system of checks and balances

22) An organization’s obligation to act to protect and improve society's welfare as well as its own
interests is referred to as

A) Organizational social responsibility

B) Organizational social responsiveness

C) Corporate obligation

D) Business ethics
23) Ethical behaviour can be influenced by

A) An organization’s culture

B) Ethical training

C) An individual’s personality

D) all of the above

24) Definition of ethics—“the principles, norms, and standards of conduct governing an individual or
group”—focuses on _______

A) Organization

B) Society

C) Business

D) Conduct

25) One of the characteristics of ethical leadership states that

A) He should have biased action

B) He should have unbiased action

C) Good back ground

D) Highly educated

26) Human and ethical values or qualities such as courage, vision, social awareness, fearlessness,
integrity, pure and clear mind, truth etc., are subjective subtle and

A) Intangible concepts

B) Subjective approach

C) Tangible concepts

D) System

27) Managers today are usually quite sensitive to issues of social responsibility and ethical behaviour
because of __________.

A) Interest groups

B) Legal and governmental concerns

C) Media coverage
D) All of the above

28) Which of the following would most effectively act as the primary objective of a business
organization?

a. To procure resources

b. To make a profit

c. To communicate with shareholders

d. To mediate between the organization and the environment

29) Business ethics deals primarily with

A) Social responsibility

B) The pricing of products and services

C) Moral obligation

D) Being unfair to the competition

30) The human activity, among the following, which causes maximum environmental pollution having
regional and global impacts, is

A) Urbanization

B) Industrialization

C) Agriculture

D) Mining

31) The primary purpose of employee safety program is to preserve the employees

A) Mental health

B) Physical health

C) Emotional health

D) All of the above

32) The responsibility for maintenance of employee health and safety is with

A) Employees

B) Employers

C) Government

D) All of the above

33) The exhaustion suffered by an individual due to continuous exposure to a stress-causing situation is
normally known as

A) Entrapment

B) Tiredness

C) Irritability

D) burn-out

34) A firm is said to have good corporate social performance when

A) Stockholders invest in socially responsible causes

B) Charitable deductions are automatically deducted from pay without the consent of employees

C) The company has not been convicted of ethical violations for five consecutive years

D) Stakeholders are satisfied with its level of social responsibility

35) A "green transport plan" is:

A) An environmentally acceptable travel plan devised by a local authority for its area

B) An internationally agreed strategy for reducing the impact of international transport activity on

The global environment.

c) A plan devised by a company or organization to reduce the environmental impact of the

Transport demands generated by itself and its employees

D) The Pakistan government's plan for a sustainable transport sector

36) The concept of international social responsibility is the expectation that MNCs concern themselves
about ______________ effects of their decisions regarding activities in other countries.

A) Philosophical

B) Competitive

C) Environmental

D) Social and economic

36) Sustainable Development focuses on more use of:

A) Renewable resources

B) Abiotic resources

C) Agricultural resources

D) Natural resources

37) Social, economic and ecological equity is the necessary condition for achieving

A) Social development

B) Economic development

C) Sustainable development

D) Ecological development

38) Eco-tracking tools need to be available which

A) Do not allow you to trace environmental footprint

B) Avoids data collection

C) Set-up an environmental management system

D) Help in decision making

39) Who uses the Triple Bottom Line?

A) Businesses

B) Non-profit organisations

C) Government entities

D) All of the above

40) Which of the following is not one of the work related behaviors that demonstrates a strong work
ethic?

A) Do not accept undesirable assignments.

B) Get your projects completed promptly.

C) Demonstrate competence.

D) Assume personal responsibility for problems.

41) The highest compliment a manager can pay an employee is to describe the employee as_________.

A) Dependable

B) Honest

C) Competence

D) Fair minded

42) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) consists of which four kinds of responsibilities

A) Economic, ethical, societal, and altruistic

B) Economic, legal, ethical, and altruistic

C) Fiscal, legal, societal, and philanthropic

D) Economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic

43) A worker with good emotional intelligence would like to be observed engaging in the following
behavior

A) Deal effectively with an angry customer.

B) Recognizing when a coworker needs help but is too embarrassed to ask.

C) Recognize that the boss is facing considerable pressure.

D) All of the above are behaviors of highly emotional intelligence people.

44) The ____________ dimension of social responsibility refers to a business's societal contribution of

time, money, and other resources.

A) Ethical

B) Philanthropic

C) Volunteerism

D) Strategic

45) Which one of the following approaches to creating an ethical and socially responsible workplace is
likely to be the most powerful?

A) Passing out buttons with the statement "Just Say No to Bad Ethics"
B) Placing posters about ethics throughout the organization

C) Top management acting as models of the right behavior

D) Including a statement about ethics and social responsibility in the employee handbook

46) Dimension of ethical leadership FAIRNESS mean

A) Be fair in skin color

B) Fair handwriting

C) Unbiased actions

D) biased decision

47) How many aspect of triple bottom line theory are there?

A)7

B) 2

C) 3

D) None of the above

48) Which one of them is not good for employee well-being?

A) Physical and mental care

B) Good salary

C) Lack of motivation

D) Work life balance

49) Which one of them is good for employee well-being?

A) Appreciation

B) To much work

C) Physical and mental stress

D) Inadequate facilities

50) A recommended way of minimizing unethical behavior is for employees to

A) Write anonymous notes to ethical violators

B) Immediately report all suspicious behavior to top management

C) Spend part of their vacation preparing a personal philosophy of ethics

D) Confront fellow employees about ethical deviations