Test Bank Employees And Business Ethics Ch.7 - Business Ethics 5e | Test Bank Crane by Andrew Crane. DOCX document preview.
Type: matching question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 01
01) Match the following employee duties with the examples of the issues involved.
Page reference: p.293
a. Due to comply with labour contract = Loyalty to firm
b. Duty to comply with law = Bribery
c. Duty to comply with labour contract = Work quality
d. Duty to respect employer’s property = Fraud, theft, and embezzlement
Type: matching question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 02
02) Match the following employee rights with the examples of the issues involved.
Page reference: p.293
a. Right to privacy = Work-life balance
b. Right to due process = Disciplinary proceedings
c. Right to healthy and safe working conditions = Occupational health and safety
d. Right to work = Fair treatment in the interview
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 03
03) Which of the following do Crane et al not provide as an example of an issue associated with an employee’s duty to respect their employer’s property?
a. Working time
b. Unauthorized use of company resources for private purposes
c. Whistleblowing
d. Embezzlement
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 04
04) Institutional discrimination means that the very ________ of the organization is prejudiced against certain groups.
Page reference: p.294-299
a. Culture
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 05
05) Imagine a retailer introduces a programme aimed at making sure employees smile and appear happy in front of customers. This is an example of which of the four kinds of threat to privacy that Simms (1994) suggests we might want to protect? Choose the best fit.
a. Physical privacy
b. Social privacy
c. Informational privacy
d. Psychological privacy
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 06
06) The two key ethical issues that arise from the downsizing process are involvement of employees and remuneration. True or false?
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 07
07) ‘Presenteeism’ is a common cultural force in many organizations – but what is it?
a. Social pressure to give gifts to colleagues upon return from a business trip.
b. The phenomenon of being at work when you should be at home recovering or enjoying time off.
c. The assumption that an employee can only work effectively in the workplace.
d. The reality that employees are expected to stay at work until after the boss has left.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 08
08) With regard to differences between national cultures and moral values, what do Crane et al suggest should be the starting point for providing direction between the two poles of absolutism and relativism on questions of employment conditions?
a. The moral standards of the employer.
b. Moral standards of the host country.
c. The economic development of the host country.
d. Human rights should be a basic compass.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 09
07) Which of the following is Not a step that companies can take to try and achieve ‘greener workplaces’?
a. Incentivizing car pooling
b. Reducing travel through use of videoconferencing
c. Moving into low energy usage office space
d. Encouraging employees to work from home less.
Type: matching question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 10
02) Match the following ‘rhetoric’ with the ‘reality’ of HRM.
Page reference: p.292
a. Team working = Reducing the individual’s discretion
b. Training and development = Manipulation. Maximisation of productivity
c. Flexibility = Management can do what it wants. Zero-hour contracts.
d. New working patterns = Temporary and part-time jobs. Precarious working arrangements
Type: true-false
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 11
11) Diverse workforces are increasingly seen as sources of business success
a. True
b. False
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 12
12) Which is of the following are main areas of affirmative action?
- Active recruitment of under-represented groups
- Construction of job criteria which are open to all
- Training programmes for discriminated minorities
- Lack of active efforts to promote under-represented groups to senior management
a. 1,2,3
Active recruitment of under-represented groups, construction of job criteria which are open to all, training programmes for discriminated minorities, active efforts to promote under-represented to senior management.
b. 1,2,3,4
Active recruitment of under-represented groups, construction of job criteria which are open to all, training programmes for discriminated minorities, active efforts to promote under-represented to senior management.
c. 2,3,4
Active recruitment of under-represented groups, construction of job criteria which are open to all, training programmes for discriminated minorities, active efforts to promote under-represented to senior management.
d. 1,2,4
Active recruitment of under-represented groups, construction of job criteria which are open to all, training programmes for discriminated minorities, active efforts to promote under-represented to senior management.
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 13
13) Fill in the missing word. _______ is an individual employee’s ability to control information about themselves and the circumstances under which that information is shared inside and outside the workplace.
Page reference: p.303-304
a. Employee Privacy
Type: multiple response question
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 14
14) Which of the following is not an element of employee operational participation? Choose all that apply.
a. Delegation
b. Information
c. Incentive Alignment
d. Co-Determination
Type: fill-in-blank
Title: Chapter 07 - Question 15
13) Fill in the missing word. ______________ is the phenomenon of being at work when you should be at home, or even just at rest and recreation, which occurs due to cultural pressures relating to working hours, productivity and organisational commitment.
Page reference: p.312-313
a. Presenteeism