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1. Unless a corporation violates a law, its actions do not raise questions about the role of corporations and the effect of
corporate ethics on profit.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
3. Business ethics looks at the decisions that businesses make or have to make and whether those decisions are right or
wrong.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
7. Managers must apply the same ethical standards to themselves as they do to their employees.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
9. Few companies provide any kind of support such as ethical training programs and seminars to make their ethical codes
more effective.
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a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
10. Codes of ethical conduct can indicate how employees are expected to act.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
11. Effective corporate ethical policies must be integrated throughout the firm.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
12. Corporations can be perceived as owing ethical duties to groups other than their shareholders.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
13. In a corporation, managers are often faced with ethical trade-offs when a certain decision will benefit one group, but
harm another.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
14. Focusing on a firm's short-term profits without considering the company’s long-term needs may be acting unethically.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
15. Destroying records in relation to a bankruptcy proceeding can be in a company’s best interest.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
16. It may be unethical for a company with a product that is outlawed in one country to look elsewhere for a market.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
19. It is illegal for a company with a product that is outlawed in one country to look elsewhere for a market.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
21. If people merely comply with the law, they are acting at the lowest ethical level society will tolerate.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
24. Acting in good faith gives a business firm a better chance of defending its actions in court.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
25. Ethical reasoning is the process through which an individual links his or her moral convictions or ethical standards to
the particular situation at hand.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
26. Duty-based ethical standards often come from religious precepts or through philosophical reasoning.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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[178]Wold or Aulád Hamdán, an Arab tribe.
[179]Aït-Ata.
[180]Bú Sebá-iyah (a place) belonging to the tribe of Abú
Seba. M. D’Avezac writes Búzebayat, following probably Ibnu-
ddén: an unsafe guide.
[181]El Mohammedí, the Mahometan.
[182]The situation of Tátá has been determined with great
probability by M. D’Avezac, in his Etudes de Géographie sur
l’Afrique Septentrionale. See also Bullétin de la Société de
Géographie, vii. 112.
[183]Afterwards Swekeya, which is probably more correct.
[184]Ramadán, the Mohammedan Lent, is the ninth month;
A.H. 1252, 8 Ramadán = A.D. 1836, 17th Dec.
[185]I’gidí. Mármol, iii. 19.
[186]Before Shehkeya.
[187]Walátah of the Arabs, Aï-weláten (Aít Walâtah?) of Ibn
Batútah.
[188]That is, “Descended from Mohammed.”
[189]“Kabílah,” which properly signifies “tribe,” but appears to
be used by Abú Bekr in the sense of “family.”
[190]The same as Emír.
[191]That is, Abú Bekr’s father, as appears from the sequel.
[192]Al-súdán for Bilád-as-súdán—the countries of the blacks.
[193]Literally “with the other tribes.” It probably means “with the
other families of the same tribe.”
[194]That is, kárúis, or blackmoor’s teeth, the Cypræa Moneta
of Linnæus.
[195]He means her name as a Mohammedan; by her
countrymen of Haúsá she was called Nághódí, a significant word
in their language.
[196]Ghilmán means “young men,” but it also means “slaves;”
however, Abú Bekr seems to have used it in the sense here
given.
[197]Sultánán may mean ‘a sultán;’ but the power of living
securely is probably what is here meant.
[198]The price of blood, or fine for having taken away a man’s
life.
[199]This is—the people of Buntukkú, Ashantí, and Fantí. This
is more distinctly expressed in another paper written by him.
[200]That is—pray five times a day.
[201]Nearly resembling the Tombutto of Leo Africanus, (p.
642,) and clearly an abbreviation of the Tungubutú of De Barros,
(Asia, i. 220.)
[202]The word in the original cannot be decyphered.
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