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BBE612S - BUSINESS ETHICS - 2ND OPP - NOV 2024 |
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nAm I Bl A un IVE RSITY
OF SCIEn CE Ano TECHn OLOGY
FACULTYOF COMMERCEH, UMANSCIENCESAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENTOFGOVERNANCEAND MANAGEMENTSCIENCES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF MANAGEMENT
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BBMA
LEVEL: 6
COURSE CODE: BBE612S
SESSION: JANUARY 2025
DURATION: 3 HOURS
COURSE NAME: BUSINESSETHICS
PAPER: 2
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
MODERATOR:
SECOND OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
Ms O.N Kangandjo
Mr B. Zealand
Mr M. Neema
Prof. Asa Romeo Asa
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 6 PAGES (Including this front page)
INSTRUCTIONS
1.
Answer all questions.
2.
Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3.
Marks for each question are indicated at the end of each question.
4.
Please ensure that your writing is legible, neat and presentable and start each
Section on a new page.
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Section A. Part 1: Multiple choice questions from 1 - 10. Answer all the questions in the answer
booklet provided.
[2X10 = 20marks]
QUESTION 1
1. _______
is privacy with respect to a person's inner life. This includes the
person's thoughts and plans, personal beliefs and values, feelings and warits:
(a) Physical privacy
(b) Psychological privacy
(c) Personal privacy
(d) Spiritual privacy
2. In this view, the employee's main moral duty is to work towards the goals of the firm.
This view is referred to as:
(a) Law of Legitimacy
(b) Law if Agency
(c) Law of Duty
(d) Law of Structure
3. If Toyota rises the prices of its new models of pick-up trucks by 4% and General Motors
and Ford follow by increasing prices by a similar amount, then this is evidence of:
(a) a monopoly
(b) pure competition
(c) monopolistic competition
(d) an oligopoly
4. The public policy view that advocates breaking large corporations/firms up into smaller
units (each controlling not more than 3-5% of the market) is called:
(a) "the Chicago school view"
(b) "the do-nothing view"
(c) "the anti-trust view"
(d) "the regulation view"
5. Affirmative action calls for ________
discrimination?
steps to eliminate the effects of past
(a) macro
b) positive
c) micro
d) negative
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6. Which of the following factors: is not relevant when considering the morality of a gift
given to an employee of an organization?
(a) What is the purpose of the gift?
(b) Is the gift forbidden by law?
(c) What is the value of the gift?
(d) Who gave the gift to the employee?
7. Major difficulties with utilitarianism:
(a) Unable to deal with moral issues relating to rights and justice.
(b) It's reliance on accurate measurements.
(c) All of the above
(d) None of the above
8. Which slogan best fits with the social cost view of producers' and intermediaries
responsibilities to consumers?
(a) Caveat emptor
(b) Caveat vendor
(c) Both of the above.
(d) None of the above.
9. Under strict liability, which of the following is true?
(a) Absence of negligence or having exercised "due care" excuses the producer from liability
for damages caused by their products.
(b) Absence of knowledge of the product's potential for the harmful effects excuses the
producer from liability for these harmful effects.
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of the above
10. The following are characteristics of monopoly market, except:
(a) No barriers to entry
(b) One seller
(c) Quantity below equilibrium
(d) Price above equilibrium and supply curve
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Section A. Part 2: TRUE/ FALSE
Indicate whether the following statements are True or False. Answer all the questions in the
answer booklet provided. Indicate true or false next to the corresponding number(s)
QUESTION2
[l0marks]
No.
Questions
2.1
Sustainability refers to the capacity that something has to continue to function into the
future.
2.2
Employees must be given the opportunity to give or withhold consent before their private
lives are investigated and should be informed of any surveillance.
2.3
Justice based arguments against discrimination point out that degrading stereotypes
undermine the self-esteem of the groups that are discriminated against.
2.4
Most collusion between oligopolies is based on the genesis of unspoken cooperation.
2.5
Social cost is the cost an individual or company must pay out of it's own pocket to
engage in a particular economic activity.
2.6
A person is morally responsible for an injury if a person did not inflict the injury or the
wrong out of his own free will.
2.7
Governments are legitimate countervailing means of balancing the power of the large
corporation.
2.8
Whistle-blowers are always motivated by personal gain.
2.9
An ecological system is an interrelated and interdependent set of organisms and
environments.
2.10 The second level of Moral Development is known as the Conventional level.
Total
[lOmarks]
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SECTION B. SHORT/ESSAY QUESTIONS
[70marks]
QUESTION 3
Oligopolies can set high prices through explicit agreement to restrain competition. They tend to
have high degree of market concentration. In this regard what should the society do in terms of
high concentration of oligopolistic industries?
(9)
QUESTION 4
Despite the difficulties with arguments against discrimination, there are five widely recognized
categories of discriminatory practices. Identify those discriminatory practices that are commonly
practiced in places of employment.
(10)
QUESTION 5
5.a) Differentiate between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism.
(4)
5.b) Although rights generally override utilitarian standards, they are not immune from all
utilitarian considerations: Briefly discuss any three rights.
(6)
QUESTION 6
Just as people's physical, emotional, and cognitive abilities develop as they age, so also does
their ability to dea! with moral issues develops as they move through their lives. Briefly explain
Lawrence Kohlberg's six stages of moral development. (in their sequence)
(12)
QUESTION?
Consumers' rights to privacy need to be balanced with legitimate business needs for information.
Discuss the six key concerns of consumer privacy.
(12)
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QUESTION 8
8.1. A firm's main moral duty to its employees is to provide them with a fair wage and fair
working conditions. Setting a fair wage is both important and difficult. List the five
factors that employers need to consider when setting a fair wage?
(5)
8.2. Employees' rights to privacy must be balanced against employers' rights to know certain
information about their activities. Briefly discuss the three elements that are relevant
when considering this balance.
( 6)
QUESTION9
Differentiate between the principle diminishing marginal utility and the principle of increasing
marginal cost.
(6)
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