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An employee who works in the graphic design department of a large advertising agency most likely cannot moonlight after business hours for a friend’s ________.
A. web design business
B. bakery business
C. landscaping business
D. construction business
A. web design business
The beliefs and behaviors determining how an organization’s employees & leadership interact and manage business transactions.
Company Culture
True or false.
Companies do not have a right to insist that their employees, including managers, engage in ethical decision-making.
False
Offering or accepting gifts or favors to influence business decisions.
Bribery
a type of product or service marketed by a particular company under a particular name
brand
If you decide to report an employer to a governmental entity for violating the law, you are a(n) ________.
whistleblower
Information developed by a specific company and not available to the government, competition, or the public without restriction.
Proprietary Information
True or False.
Rita Crundwell was able to embezzle millions of dollars from Dixon, Illinois, thanks to the clear separation of duties at her job working for the city.
False.
The lack of seperation of duties allowed her to embezzle the money.
Disguising the source of illegally obtained money to make it appear legitimate.
Money laundering
a contract clause ensuring that employees will not compete with the company during or
after employment there
non-compete agreement
What is the process of getting employees to believe in the product, to commit to the idea that the company is selling something worth buying, and even to think about buying it?
internal marketing
Low intensity behavior that is deviant with ambiguous intent to harm the target such as sarcastic comments, harsh criticism, outbursts, etc.
Workplace Incivility
True or False.
Thanks to the laws safeguarding whistleblowers, they have no need to fear retaliation, career destruction, or public humiliation.False. The laws should protect whistleblowers, but they often still suffer retaliation, career destruction, and/or public humiliation.
Manipulating stock prices through deceptive practices.
Securities fraud
a common-law rule giving an employee responsibility to protect the secrecy of the
employer’s proprietary information, such as trade secrets, material covered by patents and
copyrights, employee records and salary information, and customer data
duty of confidentiality
Which U.S. law prohibits bribery in international business dealings?
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
An employee’s disregard for or breaking company policies such as leaving work early, taking excessive breaks, or other behaviors counterproductive for producing the expected quality and quantity of work.
Workplace Deviance
True or False.
Providing a means to confidentially report ethics issues is a method used to help enforce the ethics policy and support workers' concerns.
True.
Recruiting new members to pay into the system with the promise of large profits,
primarily from recruiting others.
Pyramid scheme
a policy of some companies to prevent employees from discussing their salary with other
workers
pay secrecy
According to PayScale’s Compensation Best Practices Report, which are the two leading motivators (in order by first and second leading motivator) that employees give for leaving their job?
1st - higher pay
2nd - personal reasons
The practice of regularly excluding an employee or coworker from activities that they would normally be invited to participate.
Social Exclusion
True or False.
Most companies do not want to be scrutinized for their salary decisions; therefore, they have enforced pay secrecy, which is a policy that prohibits employees from discussing salaries among themselves.
True
Intentionally misleading investors or stakeholders through false financial reporting.
Corporate fraud
the manifestation of original ideas, protected by legal means such as patent, copyright, or
trademark
intellectual property