At Victoria's Secret, managerial approval is required whenever an employee makes a purchase at the store using an employee discount. Which factor affecting ethical behavior is Victoria's Secret seeking to control?
A) Individual
B) Social
C) Moral
D) Circumstantial
E) Opportunity
Question 2 - One reason that has attributed to the decline of union membership is:
A) the relocation of factories and production facilities to unionized areas.
B) work conditions remain poor in factories and unions did not help improve conditions.
C) the increase of reshoring by US companies.
D) the decline of service industries, which were traditionally unionized industries.
E) the decline of unionized industries and growth of non-unionized industries.
Question 3 - What are the three sets of factors that influence the standards of behavior in an organization?
A) Organizational norms, circumstances, morals
B) Peer pressure, attitudes, social factors
C) Historical factors, management attitudes, opportunity
D) Opportunity, individual factors, social factors
E) Financial factors, opportunity, morals
Question 4 - One of the biggest differences between unions of the 1950s and unions of today is:
A) a weaker economy and increased global economy prompt unions to more often seek partnership rather than confrontation.
B) unions are more confrontational today than they were in the 1950s, when they chose to work as partners with employers.
C) unions of the 1950s mainly represented workers with respect to wages and working conditions, which is not the case today.
D) whereas unions mainly looked out for their own interests in the 1950s, they look out for the interests of their members more so today.
E) whereas unions mainly looked out for the interests of their members in the 1950s, they look out for their own interests more so today.
Question 5 - Arnold Abbott, a 90-year-old from Florida was arrested after violating a Fort Lauderdale ordinance that restricted charities from feeding the homeless in public. Despite his arrest, Abbott returned a few days after his first arrest to feed the homeless hot meals. The factor affecting the ethical behavior of Abbott is:
A) individual.
B) opportunity.
C) code of ethics.
D) demographic.
E) legal.
Question 6 - All of the following have been given as possible reasons for a gradual decline in union membership except that:
A) firms moving to the Sunbelt tend to hire nonunion workers.
B) federal laws make union membership difficult.
C) heavily unionized industries have not been growing as rapidly as nonunion industries.
D) firms have shifted production to countries where the cost of labor is lower.
E) workers do not share the need to unionize because management satisfies their needs better today.
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