Chapter 1:

1. What is business Ethics?

2. Is business ethics necessary?

Chapter 2:

1. What Are the Advantages and Drawbacks of an Ethics Based on Duties?

2.What Are the Characteristics of Rights?

Chapter 3:

1. What’s the difference between egoism and selfishness?

2. If you were starting a small business, would you prefer that your partner

is a utilitarian, an altruist, or an egoist? Why?

Chapter 4:

1. In your own words, what is the eternal return?

2. Give an example of an issue of cultural ethics?

Chapter 5

1. What’s the difference between power and prestige? Can you think of a job that grants
power but little prestige and one that grants prestige but little power?
2. Can leisure time—maximizing it—be pursued on its own as a value in the job search, or
does it need to be combined with other values? If it needs to be combined, which values
might work best?

Chapter 6

1. What’s the difference between a trade secret and a patented idea?

2. Who are the people affected by résumé truth decisions?

Chapter 7

1. Why do gifts create conflicts of interest? Give example.

 2. What is the main advantage and disadvantage of dealing with gifts and conflicts of
interest by prohibiting the acceptance of gifts?

Chap 8

1. Invent a job description that would allow applicants to be screened by a bona fide
occupational qualification (BFOQ).

2. What is an advantage of a mass public job announcement

Chap 9

1. List five aspects of a corporate or organizational culture.

3. List some questions you could ask about a workplace that would start to

give you a sense of its culture.

Chap 10

1. What are the three steps defining gender discrimination?

Answer :

Gender discrimination defines analogously with the racial version:

1. An employment decision—hiring, promoting, demoting, firing—adversely or positively

affects an employee or applicant
2. The decision is based on the person’s gender rather than individual merit.
3. The decision rests on unverified stereotypes or generalizations about members of that
gender.

2. List and define the six categories of discrimination in a business environment.

Answer :
When discrimination exists in a business environment, it can be distinguished into
several categories. First, there’s a division between institutional and individual
 discrimination. A second broad distinction within the category of racial
discrimination divides isolated from regularized incidents. The final distinction cuts
through all those mentioned so far; it divides unintentional from intentional
discrimination.
1. Institutional discrimination. : discrimination embedded in an organization’s culture.
2. Individual discrimination. : discrimination expressed by an individual within an
organization that may not share the outlook.
3. Isolated : an episode of discrimination not indicative of an individual’s or organization’s
standard practice.
4. Regularized incidents: recurrent episodes of discrimination indicative of an individual’s
or organization’s standard practice.
5. Untentional discrimination :discriminatory acts stemming from unrealized prejudice.
6. Intentional discrimination : discriminatory acts stemming from explicitly realized
prejudice.

3. What is a minority? List three ways to define minority’s characteristics?

Answer :
The term minority (The status of being vulnerable to discrimination.), as understood within the
context of workplace discrimination, is sometimes summoned to perform this role.

The term minority can be defined by three characteristics:

1. Physical and/or cultural traits set a group of individuals within a community apart from
the customs and members that dominate the collective.
2. The physical and/or cultural traits that set the group apart are either disapproved of, or not
understood by the dominant group.
3. A sense of collective identity, mutual understanding, and common burdens are shared by
members of the minority group

CHAPTER 11
Question 1: Why might cultural diversity create sexual conflicts in an office?
 In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse
teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with
different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving problems.
Academic studies have carefully shown how cultural differences affect attitudes about
sex, sexual advances, and hostility at work. In a world of multinational corporations and falling
trade barriers, large organizations (and small ones too) are going to explore international
markets. Mixed nationalities in the office are going to follow.
Researchers speculate that the distinct responses to the situations don’t indicate
superficial differences of opinion, or divergences in local laws, but go much deeper into
sweeping ways people understand sex and socializing and men and women together. For
instance, South American culture is generally more eroticized, more tolerant of displays of
nudity, and more accepting of raw gestures toward sex. Of course you can’t miss how much
more comfortable men and women are with their displayed bodies if you visit Carnaval in Brazil,
but it goes beyond that.
In conclusion, Companies can also face civil suits for discrimination and sexual
harassment. Smart employers not only have policies on sexual harassment and gender
discrimination, but also provide training on these issues to ensure a respectful, comfortable
workplace in which everyone feels valued and has equal opportunity.

Question 2: What are some reasons an employee may want to use drugs at work?
A drug means a substance providing a temporary and artificially desirable state, one followed by
a comedown or a reversal to a level below the original condition

CHAPTER 12
Question 1: What does caveat emptor mean?

Question 2: What’s the difference between deceitful advertising and direct falsehoods?

CHAPTER 13
Question 1: How can corporations raise money?

Question 2: What are the main ways of organizing a business?