With Which of the Following Statements Would Most People in Business

question 31

Multiple Choice

With which of the following statements would most people in business agree?

• A) The short-run profits of a corporation will almost always increase if the firm takes actions the government has determined are in the nation's best interests.
• B) Government agencies and firms almost always agree with one another regarding the restrictions that should be placed on hiring and firing employees.
• C) Although people's moral characters are probably developed before they get into a business school, it is still useful for business schools to cover ethics, including giving students an idea about the adverse consequences of unethical behavior to themselves, their firms, and the nation.
• D) Developing a formal set of rules defining ethical and unethical behavior is not useful for a large corporation.Such rules generally can't be applied in many specific instances, so it is better to deal with ethical issues on a case-by-case basis.
• E) Because of the courage it takes to blow the whistle, "whistle blowers" are generally promoted more rapidly than other employees.

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Sequence

An ordered list or arrangement where the items follow a specific pattern or are arranged according to specific criteria.

Pretranscriptional Control

Regulatory mechanisms that act before the transcription process in gene expression to modulate the efficiency and rate at which genes are transcribed.

Methylation

A biochemical process that involves the addition of a methyl group to molecules like DNA, affecting their function and activity.

Chromatin Packing

The process of winding DNA around histone proteins to compact it into structural units known as nucleosomes, which further fold to form chromosomes.