Which of the Following Is True of Business Ethics Courses

question 63

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true of business ethics courses, and business ethics within the business world?

• A) They have demonstrably improved business conduct greatly
• B) They have demonstrably made no difference whatsoever in business conduct
• C) They appear to have had limited positive as well as negative effects, but often do not affect business conduct in a fundamental way
• D) They have been largely abandoned recently as pointless and counter-productive

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Definitions:

Selection

The process by which certain traits become more or less common in a population due to their impact on the survival and reproduction of their carriers.

Trait

A specific characteristic or feature exhibited by an organism, which can be genetic, behavioral, or physical in nature.

Broad Sense Heritability

The proportion of the total phenotypic variance of a trait that is attributable to genetic variance, where genetic variance is represented in its entirety as a single value (that is, genetic variance is not broken down into different components).

Narrow Sense Heritability

Narrow sense heritability is a measure of the proportion of phenotypic variance in a trait that can be attributed to additive genetic variance among individuals in a population.