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Ethics in the Workplace

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What jobs have unwritten codes of Ethics?

a)

Professional Gamer

b)

Teacher

c)

Doctor

d)

People who commit identity theft

2.
A co-worker, Stacy, also runs a small business in her home. Several times a month she collects paper clips, post-it-notes, and other office supplies from the office to take to her home business. What action that Stacy could take represents an ethical decision?
a)
Stop taking the office supplies home for any reason
b)
Stop taking the office supplies home except once a month
c)
Take the office supplies home only if there are plenty of supplies at work
d)
Take the supplies home as long as they are in open packages
3.
Kathy downloaded a few photos of local organic farms from Flickr.com's Creative Commons (CC). She follows the rules of the photographers' CC licenses and uses them in a digital video about sustainable agriculture. What she has done is legal. 
a)
True
b)
False
4.
Rules based on moral principles about how businesses and employees ought to conduct themselves. 
a)
Guidelines
b)
Employee Handbook
c)
Laws
d)
Business Ethics
5.
A set of guidelines for maintaining ethics in the workplace. 
a)
Code of Ethics
b)
Code of Conduct
c)
Integrity
d)
Code of Honor
6.

Any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and transformative purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize or parody

a)

Intellectual Property

b)

Fair Use

c)

Laws

d)

Patent

7.
What is copyright? 
a)
a form of protection
b)
an image
c)
a form of protection for kids
d)
copies of work
8.

What is Copyright Infringement?

a)

using someone work without permission

b)

copying of someone work

c)

liking someone's work

d)

a picture of someones work

9.

Is being ethical important to you?

a)

Yes

b)

No

10.

What question (s) should you ask yourself whenever you are faced with an ethical dilemma?

a)

Is it legal

b)

Who does it affect?

c)

Is it right

d)

All of these

11.
Taking money from a cash register, taking goods from a store without paying for them, using company money to pay for personal items or entertainment on a business trip would be considered ________
a)
Ethical
b)
Unethical
12.
Treating your employer, coworkers, customers fairly, openly and with honesty would be considered _________
a)
Ethical
b)
Unethical
13.

A (n) ________ is a problem, situation, or opportunity requiring an individual, group, or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong.

a)

Crisis

b)

Ethical Issue

c)

Indictment

d)

Fraud

14.

Having high level of ________ means that the company has earned the trust of its customers because it has been consistent in all of its actions, decisions, and character.

a)

HONEST

b)

INTEGRITY

c)

LOYALTY

d)

RESPECT

15.

Company property or assets are for business purposes and not for personal use

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

16.

Ethics begins at the top of an organization or company

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

17.

What are Ethical Dilemmas?

a)

When there is a clear and obvious solution to an ethical problem

b)

When you choose the negative option in an ethical problem and get in trouble for it

c)

When you ignore all ethical problems and continue business without concern

d)

A decision that involves a conflict of values

18.

What are ethics in the workplace?

a)

Rules and procedures to maintain a professional company culture

b)

A system of moral principles and a branch of philosophy.

19.

Why are workplace ethics important?

a)

Because our actions not only affect us, but also those around us.

b)

To maintain a professional company culture and to build a better relationship with their costumers by providing better services.

c)

They play an important role in a company's growth and development.

d)

All of the above

20.
Why Should I Care About Copyright?
a)
allows others to copy your work
b)
prevents other people from copying your work 
21.
Who Owns the Copyright in a Work?
a)
you and family members 
b)
author who created it 
c)
the president 
d)
the government
22.
What is Fair Use?
a)
pictures, essays
b)
unfair use of copyright material 
c)
all copyright materials
d)
material that can be used without the owner permission
23.
How Long Does Copyright Protection Last?
a)
a lifetime
b)
70 years after the death of the author or artist 
c)
it does not last
d)
1 year
24.
What happens to the work after the copyright time has passed?
a)
It can be bought
b)
There is no time-limit on copyright
c)

The work must be destroyed
d)
It goes into the public domain
25.
What is public domain?
a)
Creative work that is not copyrighted and is free for you to use however you want
b)
It is an open space that is owned by the public
c)
A government building
d)
Music created by Garage Band
26.
Copying, "lifting", or making slight changes to some or all of someone else's work and saying you created it
a)
Piracy
b)
Plagiarize
c)
Public Domain
d)
License
27.
What are the two ways you are able to use a work WITHOUT permission?
a)
public domain & eminent domain
b)
public domain & fairy tales
c)
public domain & fair use
28.

What does this symbol mean?

a)

chat

b)

cancer

c)

copyright

d)

circle c

29.

Does it matter how much of a copyrighted song or video you use?

a)

Yes

b)

No

30.

You can freely use text or images from a website that does not have the copyright word or symbol on it.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Can you use sound or video from a website if you do not see the copyright symbol?

a)

Yes, just give the name of the song and artist.

b)

Yes, if there is no symbol it is not copyrighted.

c)

Yes, you must write for permission to use and wait for a response.

d)

Yes, who is going to know.

32.
The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
a)
Citation
b)
Bibliography
c)
Plagiarism
d)
Newton's Law
33.
Plagiarism and cheating are the same thing.
a)
Not really
b)
Sometimes
c)
I don't know
d)
Always!
34.

Students who are caught in the act of plagiarism run the risk of which of the following

a)

failing the assignment

b)

academic probation

c)

course failure

d)

nothing cause its impossible to prove

35.

Work Cited pages...

a)

are not necessary

b)

should be practiced so students learn how to create citations

c)

should be included only in major assignments

36.

I made a design for my track team's t-shirt. Here is what I submitted. I wasn't selected because it would be...

a)

Plagiarism!

b)

Copyright Infringement!

c)

Both Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement!

37.

Which is a way to avoid plagiarism

a)

quotation marks

b)

italics

c)

bold

d)

underline

38.

Plagiarism occurs when the research paper you write is NOT your idea and you try to make it look like it is.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Sometimes true

d)

Sometimes false

39.

You do not have to cite ALL sources that you use.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Neither

d)

Both

40.

Which of the following make plagiarism tempting?

a)

deadlines

b)

assignments feeling overwhelming

c)

everyone is doing it

d)

poor planning

e)

all of the above

41.
When Do I Need Permission to Copy?
a)
all the time 
b)
never
c)
sometimes
d)
whenever you feel like it