Exploring Business Ethics and Responsibility

What is the primary focus of business ethics?

• Maximising profit at all costs

• Examining ethical principles and moral problems in a business environment

• Ensuring all employees are paid equally

• Promoting only local businesses

Which ethical theory suggests that actions should be judged based on their outcomes or consequences?

• Kantian Ethics

• Utilitarianism

• Deontological Ethics

• Virtue Ethics

What does Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) imply for businesses?

• Focusing solely on profit maximisation

• Having a responsibility towards the community and environment

• Reducing employee wages to increase shareholder profits

• Expanding business operations globally

According to Aristotle, what is greater than the good of an individual?

• The good of the community as a whole

• The wealth of the individual

• The power of the individual

• The knowledge of the individual

Which principle emphasises that each person should be treated as an end in themselves and not as a means to an end?

• The common good

• Human dignity

• Solidarity

• Profit maximisation

What is the role of whistle-blowing in a business context?

• To increase company profits

• To disclose wrongdoing to the employer or the public

• To promote company products

• To ensure employee satisfaction

What is a stakeholder in the context of business ethics?

• Only the business owner

• Anyone with an interest in an organisation

• Only the employees of the business

• Only the customers of the business

Which principle is associated with striving for the common good and helping underprivileged communities?

• Human dignity

• The common good

• Solidarity

• Profit maximisation

What is the main concern of Kantian Ethics in business?

• The consequences of actions

• The intentions behind actions

• The profitability of actions

• The popularity of actions

What is the implication of Robert C. Solomon's claim regarding ethics in business?

• Good ethics and business success are contradictory

• Good ethics can lead to business success

• Ethics are irrelevant in business

• Only large businesses need to be ethical