The core components upon which a company's ethical performance depends include:

The personal character of the managers and employees.

The values and virtues of the managers.

The traditions, attitudes, and business practices built into a company's culture.

All of these answers are correct.

Question $29(1$ point$)$

A giant step is taken toward improving ethical performance throughout the company when:

The firm hires a university ethics professor to lecture employees on moral philosophy.

A consumer hot line is created and staffed $24$ hours a day.

The Justice Department launches an investigation of the firm's pricing practices. Senior$-$level managers signal to employees that they believe ethics is a high priority.