Paying Bribes and Kickbacks to Grease Business Transactions

question 18

Multiple Choice

Paying bribes and kickbacks to grease business transactions

• A) violates ethical principles of right and wrong in all countries.
• B) is ethically acceptable according to the principle of ethical universalism and ethically unacceptable according to the principle of ethical relativism.
• C) is acceptable to immoral managers but not to amoral managers.
• D) is one of the thorniest ethical problems that multinational companies face because paying bribes is normal and customary in some countries and ethically or legally forbidden in others.
• E) is more acceptable in dealing with a company's suppliers than in dealing with a company's customers.

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Radioactivity

The spontaneous emission of radiation from the nucleus of an unstable atom as it changes to a more stable state.

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Unsafe Levels

Conditions or thresholds that exceed the accepted or legal safety limits, posing risks to health or safety.