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Q: __________ means that the defendant is held responsible for injuring another person, regardless of negligence or intent. a. Contributory negligence b. Misrepresentation c. Strict liability d. Breach of warranty

Q: What does it mean for an action to be objectively right? A. An action is objectively right if a person believes that the action is moral. B. An action is objectively right if it promotes the greater good. C. An action is objectively right if it advances one's own self-interest. D. An action is objectively right if it is in conformity with the moral law.

Q: The principal internal stakeholders of a corporation are its customers and employees.

Q: If the product fails to meet the terms of its written guarantee, the buyer or lessee can sue for__________. a. breach of warranty b. comparative negligence c. contributory negligence d. strict liability

Q: What does it mean for an action to be subjectively right? A. An action is subjectively right if it is in conformity with the moral law. B. An action is subjectively right if a person believes that the action is moral. C. An action is subjectively right if it promotes the greater good. D. An action is subjectively right if it advances one's own self-interest.

Q: A child's assumption that he or she will have a higher standard of living than the previous generation is called the revolution of rising expectations.

Q: In one lawsuit in the early__________, a financial institution became insolvent because defects in a purchased software application caused errors in several of its systems. a. 1990s b. 1980s c. 1970s d. 1960s

Q: Which level of moral development does Kohlberg call the "principled level"? A. Level I B. Level IV C. Level III D. Level II

Q: Movies depict corporate life as amoral and possibly deadly.

Q: Process-control computers enable the process to be monitored for variations from operating standards and to eliminate product defects before they affect product__________. a. quality b. delivery c. testing d. development

Q: According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what is the second level of moral development? A. preconventional B. conventional C. autonomous D. postconventional

Q: The levels of power include all of the following except A.the macro level. B.the micro level. C.the institutional level. D.the individual level.

Q: News shows are the only type of programming on television that has contributed to criticism of business.

Q: A type of business system is the__________, which is used to develop accurate forecasts of customer demand, recommend stocks and bonds for an investment portfolio. a. upgrade management system b. decision support system c. executive information system d. data information system

Q: The ability to produce an effect or influence a situation is known as A.authority. B.abuse. C.power. D.dictatorship.

Q: The percentage of the U.S. population that has earned high school diplomas and college degrees has remained about the same over the last thirty years.

Q: Motion picture companies supported the development and worldwide licensing of the__________, which enables a DVD player or a computer drive to decrypt, unscramble, and play back motion pictures on DVDs, but not copy them. a. Time Warner Cable system b. RIAA c. DeCSS d. Content Scramble System (CSS)

Q: Which of the following is true of software testing? a. White-box testing involves viewing the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings are unknown. b. Black-box testing treats the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings, unlike the unit in whitebox testing, are known. c. Static testing involves software programs called static analyzers which are run against new code.d. Integration testing involves independent testing that is performed by trained end users to ensure that the system operates as they expect.

Q: The ____ is a result of the growing numbers of individuals and groups who see themselves as having been victimized by society. A.Rights Movement B.Entitlement Mentality C.Revolution of Rising Expectations D.Victimization philosophy

Q: The Iron Law of Responsibility states that people who use power wisely will be rewarded with more power.

Q: The concept that an idea cannot be copyrighted but the__________of an idea can be is key to understanding copyright protection. a. expression b. summary c. variation d. illustration

Q: Which of the following is true of strategies for engineering quality software?a. High-quality software systems are tough to learn and use because they perform slowly.c. Developers develop high-quality software instantaneously without a set of principles. b. Software defects never lead to injury.d. The first release of any software rarely meets all its users' expectations.

Q: An entitlement mentality is A.a necessary outgrowth of the welfare system. B.an outgrowth of the revolution of rising expectations. C.the idea that one has to work for what one gets. D.the idea that each citizen owes something to society.

Q: A patent is a grant of a property right issued by the__________to an inventor. a. USPS b. USPTO c. FTC d. SEC

Q: Software quality is defined as the degree to which a software product meets: a. the needs of its users. b. the standards of its competitors. c. sustainability and environmental protection needs. d. the minimum financial return standards.

Q: A gap between society's expectations of social conditions and the current social realities is recognized as A.a social problem. B.distributive justice. C.the revolution of rising expectations. D.inevitable reality.

Q: Copyright and patent protection was established through__________. a. the Bill of Rights b. the U.S. Federal Codes and Statutes c. the U.S. Constitution d. various state laws

Q: According to cultural relativism, no culture's ethics are better than any other's.

Q: The belief that each succeeding generation should have a higher standard of living than its predecessor and that major institutions should continually improve is known as A.the revolution of rising expectations. B.the iron cage of rationality. C.the iron law of oligarchy. D.the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Q: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that there are__________classes of items that cannot be patented. a. two b. three c. four d. five

Q: Movies are a significant source of business criticism because A.corporations are seen as powerful, profit-seeking enterprises that have no redeeming values. B.corporations are depicted as moral. C.corporations represent free enterprise undoomed. D.businesses are not greedy.

Q: There is no action that is wrong in every system of background institutions.

Q: __________ is the existing body of knowledge available to a person of ordinary skill in the art. a. Prior experience b. Known facts c. Body of practice d. Prior art

Q: Television raises our level of awareness about business in all of the following ways except A.news programs. B.prime-time programs. C.pay-per-view programs. D.commercials.

Q: __________ is the process of taking something apart in order to understand it, build a copy of it, or improve it. a. Plagiarism b. Patent infringement c. Reverse engineering d. Decompiling

Q: Russians tend to distinguish "business" from the running of factories and other large enterprises.

Q: Business ethics, as an area of study, had its birth in industrial Great Britain.

Q: The average level of formal education in the United States is A.rising. B.dropping. C.staying about the same. D.unknown.

Q: The __________of 1996 imposes penalties of up to $10 million and 15 years in prison for the theft of trade secrets.a. Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act b. The Economic Espionage Act (EEA)c. Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights d. The Lanham Act

Q: Business ethics depends heavily for its context on the structures in which business operates.

Q: Which of the following is not a factor in the social environment that has lead to the current climate of criticism of business? A.affluence and education B.the revolution of rising expectations C.an entitlement mentality D.the Protestant work ethic

Q: Patent law protects__________. a. art and film b. information critical to an organization's success c. books d. inventions

Q: In the early days of the Web, many cybersquatters registered domain names for famous trademarks or company names to which they had no connection. a. True b. False

Q: Major institutions in a pluralistic, special-interest society will inevitably receive A.praise. B.special favors. C.scrutiny and criticism. D.tax advantages.

Q: Customs regarding gifts to government officials are the same worldwide.

Q: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law in__________. a. 1992 b. 1998 c. 1990 d. 1996

Q: The first state to enact the Uniform Trade Secrets Act was Illinois. a. True b. False

Q: Programs with open source code can be adapted to meet new needs, and bugs can be rapidly identified and fixed. a. True b. False

Q: Leaded gasoline is banned in the United States.

Q: Competitive intelligence analysts must be authorized to take unethical or illegal actions in the normal course of their job. a. True b. False

Q: All chemicals legal in one country are legal in every other country.

Q: Competitive intelligence involves the gathering and analysis of the trade secrets of your competitors. a. True b. False

Q: Nambu and Chikorpan are _____ .A) fictional countriesB) Asian nations where Motorola does business C) countries whose culture differs from our own D) African nations where Motorola does business

Q: Ethical business leaders _____ .A) A) seek to engage suppliers and customers as well as employeesB) allow for foreign interpretationC) exercise moral imaginationD) all of the above

Q: A common use of open source software is to move data from one application to another and to extract, transform, and load business data into large databases. a. True b. False

Q: Host country and home country often have _____ .A) no ethical differenceB) no legal differencesC) different laws governing business activitiesD) an acknowledgment that "legal" equals "ethical"

Q: White privilege allows white people to worry about racism (if they are so inclined) without being seen as self-interested.

Q: Open source code is any program whose source code is made available for use or modification, as users or other developers see fit. a. True b. False

Q: Peggy McIntosh believes whites are carefully taught to recognize white privilege.

Q: Modern day Russia presents perhaps a unique example of _____ . A) a long tradition of business ethicsB) business ethics under monarchy, dictatorship, and DemocracyC) the interplay between Eastern and Western business ethicsD) business with little or no existing background institutions

Q: Using reverse engineering, a developer can use the code of the current database programming language to recover the design of the information system application. a. True b. False

Q: White privilege and male privilege both can be found in the workplace.

Q: A trademark is business information that represents something of economic value, has required effort or cost to develop, has some degree of uniqueness or novelty, is generally unknown to the public, and is kept confidential. a. True b. False

Q: Reverse engineering can only be applied to computer hardware, not computer software. a. True b. False

Q: One of the by-products of sharing information and encouraging participation is that employees feel important.

Q: Because organizations can risk losing trade secrets when key employees leave, they often try to prohibit employees from revealing secrets by adding non-compete clauses to employment contracts. a. True b. False

Q: The term of copyright has been extended several times from its original limit of 25 years to 35 years. a. True b. False

Q: Soliciting input from other people suggests a flow of information from employees to the "boss."

Q: The main body of law that governs patents is contained in Title 35 of the U.S. Code. a. True b. False

Q: A copyright is the exclusive right to distribute, display, perform, or reproduce an original work in copies or to prepare derivative works based on the work. a. True b. False

Q: Participation increases support for decisions.

Q: Cross-licensing agreements between organizations allow each party to sue the other over patent infringements. a. True b. False

Q: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty of 1996 eliminated many of the original copyright protections for electronic media. a. True b. False

Q: NLRB stands for: A) National Labor Relations Board B) National Labor Review Board C) North American Law Review Board D) National Law Review Board

Q: Male bosses tend to encourage participation more than female bosses.

Q: A trademark permits its owner to exclude the public from making, using, or selling a protected invention, and allows for legal action against violators. a. True b. False

Q: "Wage labor" denotes _____ .A) the self-employedB) working for someone else in exchange for moneyC) small farmersD) sweatshop labor

Q: Current female executives usually strictly adhere to the so-called "rules of conduct" that spelled success for men.

Q: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law in 1998 and implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. a. True b. False

Q: Union membership today in the U.S. is approximately: A) 25% of all workersB) 20% of all workers C) 10% of all workers D) 5% of all workers