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MGT 312T Wk 1 – Apply To Tell or Not to Tell
Assume you are a nursing director for a nursing home. You’ve been working at your facility for a few short months when you learn the company that owns the home has been improperly overbilling Medicare for the care and services provided to your residents. You bring this to the attention of the company’s managers, but they do nothing. You then notify the appropriate authorities (becoming a whistle-blower) and, dismayed by the fraud and other problems, you quit.
Why are ethics considered so important when studying organizational behavior?
Multiple Choice
Unethical behavior makes it easy to influence others and conduct business.
Unethical behavior can ensure loyalty, which helps the performance of individuals and teams
You will be confronted with ethical challenges at all levels of organizations and throughout your career
Unethical acts are not illegal and can benefit the company
Some unethical acts are necessary to work around unfair governmental regulations.
The contingency approach suggests that
Multiple Choice
there is one best way to manage
OB theories apply to all situations
a manager needs to learn a set of hard-and-fast rules
the best answer depends on the situation
management practices from the past can be applied in today’s situations
Overcharging Medicare for care and services provided to patients is an example of ______ behavior
Multiple Choice
rational
unbiased
unethical
illegal
organizational
Ethics is primarily concerned with
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right and wrong
legal and illegal
moral and immoral
religious and nonreligious
public and nonpublic
In an ethical dilemma such as the one presented above
Multiple Choice
there are two choices, neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner
there are two choices, either of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner
there are two choices, one of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable manner
there is only one choice
there are no choices
In the case above, this presents a(n) _____
Multiple Choice
ethical dilemma
desired outcome
systematic approach
goal
Problem
The case above represents an extreme example of unethical and illegal conduct. These are the exception in the business community. Which of the following statements about this behavior is false?
Multiple Choice
Very few unethical acts are also illegal
Most unethical acts are not punished in any way
Even if illegal, few of these acts are prosecuted
You can rely on the legal system to manage or assure ethical conduct at work
soft skills
Problem solving and critical thinking are ______ because they use logic and reasoning to develop and evaluate options
Multiple Choice
technical skills
soft skills
common sense
hard skills
organizational