Search Results

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain the difference between relative and absolute ethical values Discuss the degree to which compliance is linked with organizational responsibility and personal values Ident...

6.1 The Workplace Environment and Working Conditions A company and its managers need to provide a workplace at which employees want to work, free of safety hazards and all types of harassment. Perks and benefits also make the company an attractive place to ...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe an employee’s responsibilities to the employer in financial matters Define insider trading Discuss bribery and its legal and ethical consequences Employees may face ...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain employees’ responsibility to treat their peers with respect Describe employees’ duty to follow company policy and the code of conduct Discuss types of workplace violence...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Describe how employees help build and sustain a brand Discuss how employees’ customer service can help or hurt a business A good employment relationship is beneficial to both ...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Define employees’ responsibilities to the company for which they work Describe a non-compete agreement Explain how confidentiality applies to trade secrets, intellectual propert...

Figure 7.1 What responsibilities do employees have to coworkers and to the company, as well as to themselves, when they are on the job? (credit, clockwise from top left): modification of “Call Centre 2006” by “AaronY”/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0; credit: mo...

1. 2020 Women on Boards, “2020 Gender Diversity Index Key Findings,” 2016. https://www.2020wob.com/companies/2020-gender-diversity-index (accessed January 5, 2018). 2. Valentina Zarya, “The Percentage of Fem...

1. How often should managers in a workplace anticipate an inspection from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration? A. every day B. once a month C. upon request or complaint D. never correct answer C 2.True...

business purpose exception an exception to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 that permits employers to monitor all oral and electronic communications, assuming they can show a legitimate business purpose for doing so closed shop a unio...

acculturation the cultural transmission and socialization process that stems from cultural exchange consumerism a lifestyle characterized by the acquisition of goods and services enculturation the process by which humans learn the rules, customs...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain what constitutes a reasonable right to privacy on the job Identify management’s responsibilities when monitoring employee behavior at work Employers are justifiably co...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Discuss trends in U.S. labor union membership Define codetermination Compare labor union membership in the United States with that in other nations Explain the relationship bet...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Explain why compensation is a controversial issue in the United States Discuss statistics about the gender pay gap Identify possible ways to achieve equal pay for equal work Di...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Identify specific ethical duties managers owe employees Describe the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act Identify Equal Employment Opportunity Commission protec...

Figure 6.1 Fifty years ago, corporate and regulatory boardrooms were almost exclusively male and White, as this meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, an executive committee of the Federal Reserve banking system, demonstrates. How much has this change...

1. Janos Marton, “Today in NYC History: How the Dutch Actually Bought Manhattan (The Long Version),” Untapped Cities. https://untappedcities.com/2015/05/06/today-in-nyc-history-how-the-dutch-actually-bought-manhattan-the-long-version/ (accessed D...

1. The fact that a McDonald’s in Indonesia might provide sambal chili sauce to its customers rather than ketchup is as an example of ________. A. acculturation B. consumerism C. enculturation D. globalization correct answer A ...

5.1 The Relationship between Business Ethics and Culture Culture has a tremendous influence on ethics and its application in a business setting. In fact, we can argue that culture and ethics cannot be separated, because ethical norms have been established o...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: Outline the rules and laws that govern employees’ criticism of the employer Identify situations in which an employee becomes a whistleblower This chapter has explained the man...