Business Ethics
Chapters 4, 6, 8 &11
*Please respond to the following questions, using several sentences to communicate your answer; will be graded on both the content and clarity of the responses.
1. Define corporate culture:
2. What are three categories or steps that entities undertake to form a corporate culture:
3. How do companies integrate corporate culture into their work and public environment:
4. What do you believe makes an ethically effective corporate culture:
5. Explain the difference between corporate ethics and corporate culture:
6. As a CEO, board, or even small business owner who consciously wants to establish corporate culture, what is the first thing that one should do:
7. Why is corporate culture important:
8. What is the employment at will doctrine for U.S. businesses:
9. What landmark legislation ushered in the regulation of the discrimination at the majority of businesses in the United States:
10. What federal agency is tasked with monitoring employer’s efforts to treat all employees equally. After discrimination is discovered, how much time does the victim have to report the potential case to be investigated by this agency:
11. What comes to mind, from an ethical perspective, when the term “diversity at the workplace” is used after hearing my lecture and reading Chapter 11 of your materials:
12. What businesses must comply with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act:
13. What does the term caveat emptor mean:
14. What are the three major concerns, from a business ethics perspective, to evaluate and analysis to see if marketing is ethical, fair, and/or just. This type of marketing is the marketing that relates to the safety of products sold and unfair targeting of customers:
15. What are the two primary types of sexual harassment cases which can brought in regards to work place sexual harassment, and describe the legal description for each category of work place sexual harassment:
16. Ethically, what challenges do businesses, corporations, and employers face when attempting to make the composition of their workforce more diverse:
17. What is affirmative action:
