Ethical Principles as They Apply to the Conduct of Personnel

question 48

Multiple Choice

Ethical principles as they apply to the conduct of personnel and business decisions:

• A) deal chiefly with standards a company has (and that are elaborated in its code of ethics)about what is right and wrong insofar as the conduct of its business is concerned and about what behaviors are expected of company personnel.
• B) deal chiefly with the behaviors that a company's board of directors expects of all company personnel in both their conduct on the job and off the job.
• C) involve the rules a company's top management and board of directors make about "what is right" and "what is wrong."
• D) deal primarily with the company's duty to comply with legal requirements,conform to ethical norms of society,and ethical principles in general.
• E) are generally less stringent than the ethical principles for society at large because it is well understood that businesses should not be expected to operate any differently than what the law requires of them.

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