Which of the Following Statements Is True of the Ethical

question 40

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of the ethical dimension of an organization's culture?

• A) Rewarding ethical behavior of the past decreases the probability that organization members will act ethically in the future.
• B) Ethics training guarantees that employees will choose the desired ethical behavior in every possible situation.
• C) Ethics training normally focuses on developing a common understanding throughout the organization of the role ethics plays in organizational operations.
• D) Management should refrain from promoting employees on the sole basis of their previous ethical behavior.
• E) The ethics dimension of the organization's culture has historically been the most emphasized dimension.

Recognize the influence of situational and dispositional factors on behavior as described by the actor-observer effect.

Explain the role of self-handicapping strategies in protecting self-esteem.

Identify methods used in psychological research and attitude measurement, such as Likert scales.

Understand the difference between internal and external attributions and how they apply to oneself and others.

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Definitions:

Duration

A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond or other debt instrument to changes in interest rates.

Unbiased Estimator

A statistic that accurately estimates the true parameter of a population, meaning its expected value equals the parameter being estimated.

Consistent Estimator

An attribute of an estimator indicating that, as the sample size increases, it converges in probability to the true parameter it estimates.

σ

Denotes the standard deviation in statistics, a measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of values.