MIDTERM EXAMINATION

I Fill in the Blanks (2 Points each)

1. Profit motives promote self-interest rather than the common good

2. Moral reasoning is a process in which ethical issues and problems are benchmarked against a moral
standard so that a moral judgement is made possible.

3. A good moral standard is one that looks as the issue as something that is very serious.

4. Businessmen are not immoral and it would be disastrous to judge and conclude that business people
commit unethical act of doing business.

5. Without morality, business will be a chaotic human activity.

6. Ethics is a personal affair and not a public debatable matter.

7. Business, certainly is a good and productive human activity.

8. Business is an integral part of human society.

9. Good business means good ethics.

10. What is legal may not necessarily be moral.

11. Circumstances of the act refers to the conditions that affects the human act by increasing or
decreasing the responsibility of the actor.
12. Human acts are actions that proceed from the deliberation free will of man.

13. The end of the actor this refers to the intention or the movie of the doer of the act.

14. Good Acts are those done by man in harmony with dictates of right reason.

15. Natural Involuntary Actions these actions of man that are performed intuitively or involuntarily

II True or False (2 Points each)

Directions: Write T if the statement is True and F if otherwise. Write the letter of your answer on the blank space
provided.
1. F Business ethics is the basic framework for doing business incorrectly
2. F Business Ethics is enforced by law.

3. T Businessman should get good education and leadership about business ethics.

4. T Code of conduct lets us know what to do and what not to do.5.

5. T Business ethics is a qualified term.

6. T Service motive is the service and consumer’s satisfaction should get more attention than profit
maximization.

7. F Incorrect in weighing packaging and quality of providing goods to the consumers has to be
followed.

             

DON HONORIO VENTURA STATE UNIVERSITY

               Cabambangan, Villa De Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines
                              COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES
                        DHVSU Main Campus, Villa De Bacolor, Pampanga           

Name: Gian G. Tolentino Date: November 12, 2021

Course & Section: BSA-3A Score_______________________

ETHICS  
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8. F Practice monopoly at all times.

9. F Intentions of business use permitted illegal and sacred means to do business

10. F Business should be fair humane, efficient and not dynamic.

III Enumeration (15 POINTS)

Paul Glenn (1968) writes five principles involving the implications of the circumstances of act:

1. An indifferent act can become good or evil through circumstances.

2. A good act can become evil through circumstances.

3. An intrinsically good act can become better or an intrinsically evil act can become worse through
circumstances.

4. An evil act can never become good through circumstances.

5. A good act done with evil means destroys the entire objective goodness of the act.

Human act characterized as:

1. The free and voluntary acts of man.

2. Acts done with knowledge and consent.

3. Acts which are proper to man as rational being since man has been gifted with rationality and freedom will.

4. Acts which are conscious and under our control and for which we are responsible.

Categories of Voluntary Actions:

1. Perfect Voluntariness

2. Imperfect Voluntariness

3. Direct Voluntary

4. Indirect Voluntary

Two Categories of Acts of Man:

1. Natural Involuntary Actions

2. Natural Voluntary Actions

IV.

Definition of Terms (5 points each)

I. In your own insights define the following:

1. Ethics

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2. Business Ethics

3. Morality

4. Teleological Ethics

5. Ethics and Religion

Good luck