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WorksheetsBusiness Ethics
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 14mins
What are rules based on moral principles about how businesses and employees ought to conduct themselves?
Employee Handbooks
Which is NOT a step in the ethical decision-making process?
Identify the ethical problem.
Decide who will be affected.
Select the best alternative.
Choose the worst alternative.
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 ________.
Treating your employer, coworkers, customers fairly, openly and with honesty would be considered _________.
An entrusted person who converts other's assets or property for his or her own use is a/an
schemer
fraud
Which of the following questions should NOT be taken into consideration when listing all the alternatives and consequences to solve an ethical problem?
Is it legal?
Does it fit my personal values?
Who will be affected?
Does it benefit me personally?
Why are workplace ethics important?
To establish expectations for employees and reduce staff turnover
To maintain a positive and professional company culture
To treat customers with respect and increase customer loyalty
All of the above
What is forcing someone to do something by threatening to reveal a secret?
Blackmail
Bribery
Withholding
Lying
What does it mean "to blow the whistle"?
To accuse your coworkers
To make a party
To make noise
To alert the management of possible bad behavior
You earn a lot of respect within your workers when you make unethical choices.
TRUE
FALSE
Ethics begins at the top of an organization or company
TRUE
FALSE
Ethical guidelines are best practices to follow in the workplace.
True
False
If you feel good about something you've done, it must have been an ethical choice.
True
False
It's only unethical if I get caught.
True
False
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?
Ethically
Unethically
Illegally
Loyally
As you walk out of a store with a friend, she gives some jewelry for you to hold. 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?
Ethically
Unethically
Illegally
Unethically and illegally
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.
True - good behavior will always be rewarded.
False - sometimes you just have to do the right thing, even if it "costs" you.
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, but ask for the money or you'll tell his boss about the situation.
Agree to it since you have time. But decline the money because it's wrong.
Decline, explaining that you have your own report to write.
Agree to it. You could use the money!
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
If you work for yourself, you never have to worry about business ethics.
True
False
A cashier gives you the wrong change, and it's in your favor! The ethical choice is
Give the money to a homeless guy.
Keep the change.
Return the extra money.
Spend the money right away.
In golf, the players actually call penalties on themselves, even if no one's around to see what happened. They are exercising ___________ behavior.
Self-destructive
Illegal
Unethical
Ethical
