• Question 1

Points: 2

Which concept is defined as follows? The criteria that individuals use to guide their ethical decision-making based on the expectations within ones family, community or society

A.

moral standards

B.

moral principles

C.

moral norms

D.

moral values

• Question 2

Points: 2

Can social roles create their own unique moral obligations, different from, or even inconsistent with, everyday moral requirements such as honesty, benevolence, fair dealing or respect for others? In professional ethics, this is often known as the problem of ______________________________.

A.

common morality

B.

balancing act and rule utilitarianism

C.

moral disengagement

D.

none of the above

• Question 3

Points: 2

Professional ethics is to a large extent about professional role morality. Which one of the following statements is TRUE?

A.

Professional role morality is ordinary (or everyday) and universal.

B.

Professional role morality and common morality must be reconciled through act utilitarianism.

C.

Practitioners have to treat the justified demands of their professional role as default norms.

D.

Professionalism consists in putting commercial interests above the necessities of doing the job right.

• Question 4

Points: 2

How can you find out what personal values are really important to you?

A.

List your personal values in priority order. The top three are the most important.

B.

Ask your family, mentors, lecturers, employers or professional association.

C.

Observe your siblings, friends and co-workers as reference groups determine your own values.

D.

Look for situations in which your personal values come into conflict. What do you do?

• Question 5

Points: 2

Because of COVID-19 and the slump in sales, fashion retail chain Zara has closed down 1,200 of its stores worldwide. Staff will not be retrenched, however, but offered roles in other jobs such as dispatching online purchases. As a result, the headcount will remain stable. Which of the companys responsibilities does this case illustrate?

A.

economic responsibilities

B.

philanthropic responsibilities

C.

ethical responsibilities

D.

voluntary responsibilities

• Question 6

Points: 2

Ethical decision-making can be thought of as a process made up of five different stages. Which of the following sequences is CORRECT?

A.

moral intention moral awareness moral reasoning moral judgement moral defence

B.

moral reasoning moral sensitivity moral judgement moral intention moral defence

C.

moral awareness moral reasoning moral judgement moral courage moral intention

D.

moral sensitivity moral reasoning moral judgement moral intention moral defence

• Question 7

Points: 2

A large number of factors influence how individuals make ethical decisions and what kind of decisions they arrive at in the professions and/or business organisations. These factors can be grouped into three main categories. Which of the following categorisations is CORRECT?

A.

personal, national and international factors

B.

individual, cultural and organisational factors

C.

occupational, professional and job-related factors

D.

social, temporal and physical factors

• Question 8

Points: 2

Bribery is the offering or soliciting of an inducement for an illegal action. This definition is ________________________.

A.

complete and correct

B.

complete and incorrect

C.

incomplete and incorrect

D.

incomplete and correct

• Question 9

Points: 2

It is the individual people inside a company not the company itself who should take responsibility for actions taken in the name of the company. Why? Companies themselves have no capacity for emotion like empathy and are unable to experience guilt so they cannot engage in any form of moral reasoning. When it comes to ethical misconduct, it only makes sense to blame those who can experience guilt, that is, individuals (directors, managers, supervisors, employees, etc.). If you accept this line of reasoning, then corporations _______________________________________.

A.

behave exactly like ordinary people (only that they have no human body and no human brain)

B.

do not qualify for moral agency

C.

are to be held accountable as corporations for their unethical actions

D.

have everything to gain from bankruptcy in case they face legal action

• Question 10

Points: 2

Li Wenliang was a Chinese ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital who sent his friends an internal diagnostic report about the imminent COVID-19 pandemic on 30 December 2019. That confidential report quickly started circulating on social media platforms, alerting the general public to the deadly outbreak. This is an example of _____________________________.

A.

breaking the law

B.

blowing the whistle

C.

cultural relativism

D.

moral disengagement

• Question 11

Points: 2

Premier Inn Hotel Group has recently decided to stop delivering newspapers to every guest room. The CEO does not really care much about the environment but he introduced the change because Marriott International has been doing the same for ten years. What stage of Kohlbergs (1969) moral development model is the CEO likely to be at?

A.

Stage 2

B.

Stage 3

C.

Stage 4

D.

Stage 5

• Question 12

Points: 2

How are (i) locus of control and (ii) Machiavellianism related to ethical judgement and/or ethical action? It is more likely an individual will have ethical intentions and behave ethically if they have ___________________________________.

A.

high internal locus of control combined with low Machiavellianism

B.

low internal locus of control combined with low Machiavellianism

C.

high internal locus of control combined with high Machiavellianism

D.

low internal locus of control combined with high Machiavellianism