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Chapter 06 - Ethics in business research
Test Bank
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 01
01) Writers are usually in broad agreement with each other over ethical issues and questions.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 02
02) A universalist stance takes the view that ethical precepts depend upon the context in which the research takes place.
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 06 Question 03
03) Situation ethics or Principled relativism has two ways of being represented. Please select all that apply.
- The end justifies the means. Some writers argue that, unless there is some breaking of ethical rules, we would never know about certain social phenomena. Dalton (1959) essentially argues for this position in relation to his study of managers and the differences between official and unofficial action. Without some kind of disguised observation, this important aspect of organizational life would not have been studied. This is usually linked to the second form of a situationist argument in relation to social research ethics.
- No choice. It is often suggested that we have no choice but to engage in dissimulation on occasions if we want to investigate the issues in which we are interested.
a. Anything goes
b. No choice
c. The end justifies the means
d. Do no harm
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 06 Question 04
04) Which of the following is not a core ethical principal around research?
- whether there is harm to participants;
- whether there is a lack of informed consent;
- whether there is an invasion of privacy;
- whether deception is involved.
a. There must be no harm to participants
b. There must be no invasion of privacy
c. There must be no controversy around the research
d. There must be no deception involved
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 05
05) The purpose of a confidentiality agreement is to define and restrict the type of information that you are permitted to access and establish what kind of information you are able to disclose about the company.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 06
06) Participants in a research study must always remain anonymous.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 07
07) Informed consent must always be obtained from participants as part of a research study.
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple response question question
Title: Chapter 06 Question 08
08) Which of the following is linked to the notion of informed consent?
a. Universalism
b. Control group
c. Privacy
d. Anonymity
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 09
09) The collection and storage of digital data has all but eliminated any concerns about confidentiality and other ethical issues.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 10
10) It is expected that researchers will declare any affiliations, conflicts of interests or funding in conducting and publishing their research
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 11
11) Under UK law, researchers usually own the copyright of photos they have taken themselves.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 12
12) Researchers who take a photograph of an individual and reproduce it as part of a study should obtain written or verbal consent for doing so.
a. True
b. False
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 06 Question 13
13) Online discussion lists are public, they can be researched and their data published in your dissertation without any difficulty.
a. True
b. False
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 06 Question 14
14) According to Zwitter (2014), ethical codes tend not to engage with _______ level considerations of privacy
Feedback: Zwitter notes that ethical codes tend not to engage with group level considerations of privacy.
Section reference: 6.5 Ethical considerations in online research
a. Individual
b. Group
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 06 Question 15
15) Most high-ranking journals in business and management research tend to publish which type of studies:
a. Positivist, qualitative research
b. Positivist, quantitative research
c. Interpretive, qualitative research
d. Interpretive, quantitative research