According to the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association survey, which of the following
did not rank in the top five as the main responsibilities of an ethics officer?
Select one:
a. Oversight of hotline/guideline/internal reporting
b. Conducting investigations of wrongdoing
c. Training design
d. Organization-wide communications
Advocates of ethical business conduct argue that the HR department needs to ensure that
all of the following critical areas are addressed except:
Select one:
a. HR is responsible for ensuring that the right programs and policies are in place
b. HR professionals must help ensure that ethics are a top priority
c. HR must keep track of all of the company's financial transactions
d. HR must stay abreast ethical issues
All of the following are examples of rewards for successful behavior, except:
Select one:
a. awarding prizes to any employee who finds unethical behavior within the organization
b. declaration an Ethics Day and allowing every department to share their success
c. celebration of good ethical behavior in the company newsletter
d. awarding prizes for ethical behavior, which the employee chooses
All of the following are key functions of an organization except:
Select one:
a. Information systems
b. R&D
c. Marketing
d. Sales
All of the following are major trends behind the CSR phenomenon except:
Select one:
a. globalization
b. knowledge
c. the failure of the private sector
d. sustainability
All of the following personalities received media coverage for corporate scandals, except:
Select one:
a. Lay at Enron
b. Rigas at Adelphia Cable
c. Scrushy at HealthSouth
d. Wagoner at General Motors
All of the following women were recognized by Times magazine as a "Person of the Year,"
except:
Select one:
a. Sherron Watkins
b. Cynthia Cooper
c. Coleen Rowley
d. Martha Jenkins
Congress took an integrated approach to the matter of whistle-blowing by prohibiting
retaliation against whistleblowers and encouraging the act of whistle-blowing under which
act?
Select one:
a. The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
b. Federal Sentencing Guidelines Act
c. False Claims Act of 1963
d. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Corporations pursue operational efficiency through detailed monitoring of their bottom line
in all of the following areas except:
Select one:
a. social activities
b. environmental activities
c. financial performance
d. ethical activities
Given the new legal environment surrounding whistleblowers, employers would be wise to
put all of the following mechanisms in place, except:
Select one:
a. a detailed report of all investigations, documenting all corporate officers involved and all
actions taken
b. an employee hotline to file such complaints
c. a prompt and thorough investigation of serious complaints
d. a well-defined process to document how such complaints are handled
which approach to corporate management states that the only obligation of a corporation is
to maximize profits for its shareholders?
Select one:
a. Social contract approach
b. Instrumental approach
c. Shareholder approach
d. Economic approach
Ideally, the human resources function within an organization should be directly involved in
all of the following except:
Select one:
a. the documentation of periodic performance reviews
b. the creation of a career development program for the employee
c. the creation of the job description for the position
d. the marketing of the organization's products
The owners of a corporation are typically a fragmented group consisting of all of the
following, except:
Select one:
a. other companies
b. individual public shareholders
c. the government
d. employees
What is the number one reason explaining why employees stretch the truth in the
workplace?
Select one:
a. Stakeholder relations
b. Investor relations
c. Profits
d. Acceptance by co-workers
Which approach to corporate management is considered simplistic because it assumes that
there are no external consequences to the actions of the corporation?
Select one:
a. Economic approach
b. Instrumental approach
c. Social contract approach
d. Shareholder approach
Which of the following is NOT a consideration in creating a code of ethics from scratch?
Select one:
a. Pick a well-tested model
b. Find a champion
c. Try it out first
d. Get endorsement from management from various levels
Which of the following is NOT a question on the CEO’s checklist to assess the quality of an
organization's board?
Select one:
a. Is your board the right size (15 to 20 members)?
b. Are the insiders limited to the CEO, the COO, and the CFO?
c. Do you take the right measures to build trust among directors?
d. Are there three or more outside directors to every insider?
Which of the following is NOT a stage in creating a long-lasting ethical culture?
Select one:
a. Follow the competitors
b. Establish a code of ethics
c. Promote your organizations commitment to ethical behavior
d. Hire an ethics officer
Which of the following is one of the newest and increasingly questionable practices in the
world of CSR?
Select one:
a. "Carbon neutral" operations
b. Greenhouse gas conscience
c. Water conservation
d. Risk management and emergency preparedness
Which of the following terms describes the characteristic of public commitment to the
highest level of professional standards and then sticking to that commitment?
Select one:
a. Proactive ethics
b. Organizational integrity
c. Business ethics
d. Utilitarianism
Whistle-blowing is ethical under all of the following conditions, except:
Select one:
a. when the motivation is financial gain
b. when the employee's immediate supervisor does not act, and the internal procedures and
chain of command have been exhausted
c. when the employee identifies a serious threat of harm
d. when the company will cause serious and considerable harm to the public
Who is responsible for overseeing the financial reporting process of an organization?
Select one:
a. The board of directors
b. The compensation committee
c. The audit committee
d. The frontline managers
Who was the CEO of Enron when Sherron Watkin's blew the whistle?
Select one:
a. Joseph Berardino
b. Jeffery Skilling
c. Kenneth Lay
d. Bernard Ebbers