Chapter 1 - Quick Quiz 1

1. An organization's mission statement highlights its key ethical issues and identifies the overarching values and principals that are important to the organization and its decision making.

• True
• False

2. Ideally, the corporate ethics officer should be a well respected, senior-level manager who reports directly to the CEO.

• True
• False

3. In a nonprofit organization, the board of directors reports to the local community that it serves.

• True
• False

4. Consistency means that shareholders, customers, suppliers, and the community know what they can expect of an organization-that it will behave in the future much as it has in the past.

• True
• False

5. The greater reliance of information systems in all aspects of life has decreased the risk that information technology will be used unethically.

• True
• False

6. Increasingly, managers are including ethical conduct as part of an employee's performance appraisal.

• True
• False

7. Employees may suppress their tendency to act in a manner that seems ethical to them and instead act in a manner that will protect them against anticipated punishment.

• True
• False

8. The term morals refers to the personal principles upon which an individual bases his or her decisions about what is right and what is wrong.

• True
• False

9. Laws can proclaim an act as legal, although many people may consider the act immoral.

• True
• False

10. Fairness and generosity are examples of virtues.

• True
• False