Name: ______________________________
Date: ______________
ETHICS - KEY
Assessment
1. Ethics are learned from the people who raise you.
TRUE
FALSE
2. If you are ethical, then a desired result in whatever you do will always be produced.
TRUE
FALSE
3. Name the company that has been in serious trouble with the law.
a. Target
c. Enron
b. Goodyear
d. Shell Oil
4. Who said, “Leadership is about ethics, integrity and morality. Competence is important,
but without character competence is nothing.”?
a. George W. Bush
c. Plato
b. General Norman Schwarzkopf
d. Shirley Chisholm
5. If you do business with a company that is known to be unethical, you won’t suffer at all
because the public will know that you are not responsible for that company.
TRUE
FALSE
6. A small business’ ethics reflect the character of …
a. the employees.
c. the politicians.
b. the city.
d. the owner.
7. Who said ethics is “knowing the difference between what you have a right to do, and
what is the right thing to do”?
a. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
c. Plato
b. General Norman Schwartzkoph
d. Shirley Chisholm
8. What are Ethics?
a. The company structure
c. The rules of the Employee Manual.
b. The discipline dealing with what is
good and bad and with moral duty
and obligation.
d. Religious rules that are carried into the
workplace.
9. In the reading about Company X, it was noted that this company was a part of the
_______________ industry.
a. airline
c. aerospace/defense
b. textile
d. automobile
10. In the example in the reading, Company X did what when they received the brown
envelope?
a. Changed their bid to win the
contract
c. Fired the employee who opened it.
b. Nothing.
d. Sent it to the government and called
the competing company.
11. Perhaps the most demanding form of ethical dilemma occurs when …
a. two or more of one’s dearly held
principles seem to collide.
c. your principles don’t match with your
peers.
b. everyone gets a raise but you.
d. a customer insults you and you can’t
retaliate.
12. If you wanted to report a company for unethical practices, you would report them to
the …
a. IRS
c. Bureau for Ethical Practices.
b. Better Business Bureau.
d. local police department.
13. What happened in the Company X example?
Company X received a brown envelope from a competing company that contained a
bid for a government contract that they were competing for. If they were to bid lower
than the competing company then they would win the contract. Knowing that it would
be unethical to use this information to win the contract, Company X sent the brown
envelope to the government, called the competing company to explain what they had
received and didn’t change their bid. They lost the contract and had to lay off
employees.
14. What is the definition of Moral?
1. Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action
and character
2. Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior
3. Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous
4. Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong
15. What are the six ways to increase the consistency of your leaders’ ethical practices?
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Publicize your Standards
Train leaders on ethics requirements
Provide support systems
Senior Management as the ethics models
React ethically to critical events
Demonstrate concern