More Than a Compliance Program, Business Ethics Is Becoming

question 34

Multiple Choice

More than a compliance program, business ethics is becoming

• A)a management issue to achieve competitive advantage.
• B)a guaranteed way to earn higher financial returns.
• C)mainly a government regulatory issue.
• D)an initiative led by nonprofit organizations.
• E)a program that decreases profits but increases societal benefits.

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Definitions:

Nonviolence

A principle of conflict resolution and political strategy that rejects the use of physical violence in order to achieve social or political change.

Prosocial Behavior

Helping behavior that benefits others.

Immanent Justice

The belief, particularly common in children, that moral behavior is immediately rewarded and immorality is instantly punished in a natural or magical manner.

Postconventional Morality

A stage in Kohlberg's theory of moral development where an individual's sense of morality is defined by internal principles, and social rules are seen as relative and not absolute.