Ethics

You're on a team where people are constantly pointing out what's wrong with the company. This is most likely cause which outcome?

• Morale will be low, as everyone focuses on the negative

• People will work harder to overcome the challenges

• Everyone will know what needs to improve

Your co-worker is having trouble finishing a report. He'll pay you double your normal hourly rate to do it and not tell anyone. What do you do?

• Decline, explaining that you have your own report to write

• Agree to it since you have time. But decline the money because it's wrong.

• Agree to it. You could use the money!

• Decline, but ask for the money or you'll tell his boss about the situation.

Jack sees another kid at school being bullied. He tells a teacher. Jack knows he did the ethical thing and may have helped the kid. This makes Jack:

• None of the above

• A traitor

• Weak

• A snitch

If you feel good about something you've done, it must have been an ethical choice.

• False

• True

You borrow your mom's car and accidentally put a dent in the door. What do you do?

• Fess Up

• Try and get it fixed before she notices

• Blame it on a stranger

• Say Nothing

You witness a group of kid you know damaging school property. The principal asks for any anonymous tips on who might have damaged the property. You choose to stay out of it and don't say anything. How are you acting?

• Loyally

• Ethically

• Unethically

• Illegally

Jane plans on making flyers for the church bake sale. But she's running low on printer paper, so she takes home some paper from work to print them out. It's for a good cause, but is this ethical?

• Yes

• No

Larry's car had a tune-up, and the mechanic told him it's going to need a new timing belt at the next scheduled maintenance. Larry decides to sell the car, and tells the buyer that the maintenance is up to date. This is:

• None of the above

• Completely unethical, and Larry knows it

• Exactly what most people would do

• Perfectly fine - technically, it's the truth

If you make an ethical choice, such as pointing out the mistake in the grade a teacher gave you, or confessing that you broke something, you'll never have negative consequences.

• False - sometimes you just have to do the right thing, even if it "costs" you.

• True - good behavior will always be rewarded.

As you walk out of a store with a friend, she gives you some jewelry to hold. Just then, a security guard stops your friend and questions her about missing jewelry from the store. You know the guard is looking for the jewelry you are holding, but you say nothing because she is your friend. How are you possibly acting?

• Unethically and illegally

• Illegally only

• Ethically

• Unethically only