The answers to the Self-Assessment Questions can be found in Appendix B.
Choose the word(s) that best complete the following sentences.
1. The term
refers to social conventions about right and wrong that are so
widely shared that they become the basis for an established consensus.
is a set of beliefs about right and wrong behavior within a society.
are habits of acceptable behavior.
2.
3.
4. A person who acts with integrity acts in accordance with a personal.
are one's personal beliefs about right and wrong.
5.
6.
is the concept that an organization should act ethically by taking
responsibility for the impact of its actions on the environment, the community, and the
welfare of its employees.
7.
focuses on developing and maintaining a supply chain that meets the needs
of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
8. The public.
of an organization strongly influences the value of its stock, how
consumers regard its products and services, the degree of oversight it receives from gov-
ernment agencies, and the amount of support and cooperation it receives from its business
partners.
9. The corporate ethics officer provides the organization with
and.
- in the area of business conduct.
10.
11.
is a system of rules that tells us what we can and cannot do.
requires public companies to disclose whether they have codes of ethics
and disclose any waiver to their code of ethics for certain members of senior management.
12. The goal of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to.