Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities And Employee Rights

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Ethics and Business
Ethical Decision Making: Personal and Professional Contexts
Philosophical Ethics and Business
The Corporate Culture-Impact and Implications
Corporate Social Responsibility
Ethical Decision Making: Employer Responsibilities and Employee Rights
Ethical Decision Making: Technology and Privacy in the Workplace
Ethics and Marketing
Business and Environmental Sustainability
Ethical Decision Making: Corporate Governance, Accounting, and Finance

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Question 1

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The most important influence on workers' commitment is salary.

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Question 2

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Employees have a universal right to a "happy" workplace.

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Rewards and compensation structures have no impact on the emotions of workers.

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Employment security is the most significant aspect of work from the employee's ethical perspective.

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In legal contexts, due process is the right to be protected against the arbitrary use of authority.

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A mistreatment needs to be physically threatening to be termed as "bullying."

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The doctrine of 'employment at will'(EAW) holds that unless an agreement specifies otherwise, employers are free to fire an employee at any time and for any reason.

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When the employer is the government, constitutional limitations on government authority are extended into the workplace to protect employees.

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If a firm decides to retain employees on the basis of longevity with the firm, and the retained employees are mostly of the male gender, then legally, the firm will not be violating any regulations.

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"Sweatshops" lack even the most basic health and safety protections.

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The life of one who dies in a workplace accident has instrumental value that can be measured, in part, by the lost wages that would have been earned had that person lived.

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"Relative risks" is determined by comparing the probabilities of harm involved in various activities.

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Standards are fundamentally a social approach that can address public policy questions ignored by markets.

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The "feasibility" approach to standards allows OSHA to make tradeoffs between health and economics.

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It is discriminatory to refuse to hire someone about whom you simply have a "bad feeling," even if that bad feeling is not based on their difference in race or gender.

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Question 16

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Some employers might decide to treat employees well as a means to produce greater workplace harmony and productivity. This approach is reminiscent of _____ ethics.

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deontological

utilitarian

normative

Kantian

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Question 17

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Some employers emphasize the rights and duties of all employees, and treat employees well simply because "it is the right thing to do." Identify the ethical approach for this perspective.

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Prescriptive ethics

Utilitarianism

Deontological ethics

Classicism

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Question 18

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Philosophically, the right of _____ is the right to be protected against the arbitrary use of authority.

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continuance

freedom of association

due process

self-determination

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Question 19

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Which of the following statements is true about the right of due process?

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In legal contexts, due process refers to the procedures that police and courts must follow in exercising their authority over citizens.

Few dispute that the state, through its police and courts, has the authority to punish citizens. This authority of the state is the right of due process.

Due process in the workplace acknowledges employees' authority over an employer.

In legal contexts, due process refers to the unlimited authority that police and courts have over citizens, to create a safe and orderly society.

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Identify the correct statement about "bullying."

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The mistreatment of an employee needs to be physically threatening to be termed as bullying.

Bullying does not involve a boss who is constantly yelling dictates at workers because that is his job.

When a coworker spreads rumors about another in order to sabotage his position, he is not regarded as bullying as he is not higher than the other employee in the hierarchy of authority.

Bullying can lead to a complete loss of personal dignity, intimidation, and fear.

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