BE Moral Choices Facing Employees

Business Ethics

Moral Choices Facing Employees

Multiple Choice

Obligations to the firms means ___.

• employee use one's official position for personal gain

• employee buying and selling of stocks by business insider information

• employee responsible to perform certain tasks in exchange for financial remuneration

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the meaning of conflict of interest?

• A scenario where someone has a conflict in a workplace.

• A situation where an employee is fired because the company had massive layoffs/cuts to the workplace.

• A situation where the company's CEO is running the company in a strict way in order to generate as much profit for the company and its shareholders as possible.

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• A situation where someone has personal interests (which may be other professional interests) that trump those of professional ones at the expense of the organization they are employed in.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of conflict of interest?

• An individual who works at 7-11 while also volunteering their time on their days off

• An individual who is self-employed starting a computer business

• A person working for Apple and Microsoft at the same time

• A person working for INTEL

Multiple Choice

Conflict of interest may exist when employee has financial investments ____.

• in sport teams

• and questions the wisdom of the deal

• in suppliers, consumers, or distributors with whom their organizations do business.

Multiple Choice

What is insider trading?

• The use of one's position for personal gain.

• Buying and selling of stocks by business insider and likely to affect the price of the stock.

• Business transaction that legally accepted

Multiple Choice

Why Utilitarianism viewed Insider Trading as permissible?

• Insider trading does not harm anyone.

• Many of the people who buy and sell stocks on the stock market have more or better information than others thus there is no issue of unfair advantage over others

• Insider and friends bring their inside information to the stock market and by trading on it, bid up the price of the stock, so that its stock market price rise or falls reflct the true underlying value of stock

• All of the answers.

Multiple Choice

Why insider trading is unethical?

• The information that the insider trader uses does not belong him.

• The information advantage of the insider is unfair because it is unjustly stolen from others

• All of the answers