The following information is great for understanding what ethics is. We need to strive to be as ethical as the following reading material is trying to teach you. This material goes into detail on what it is to live a good life. These are good concepts to think about.

Just What is a Whistleblower?
Basics
Life as the Moral Standard
Morality is a Guide to Living
Reason is Man's Means of Survival
Values
Virtue
Self-Interest
Harmony of Interests
 
Specifics
Self Reliance / Independence
Productiveness
Integrity
Honesty
Pride
Justice
Benevolence
Rationality
 
Technicalities
Metaphysical Justice
Free Will
Courage
Trader Principle

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1. According to the article, employees generally turn to the government or other outside sources because

A. The violation is substantial.
B. The company has been slow to respond.
C. Both A and B above.
D. Of financial incentives.

2. According to the article, the full 2011 NBES released in January, found that a record 65% of workers who witnessed rules violations in 2011 reported them. But even at that high rate, some 20 million workers stayed silent when learning of misconduct.

True False

3. According to the article, employees report only internally through company channels. The findings include

A. 56% of those who reported misconduct took their reports to someone they know and trust inside the company, such as a direct supervisor.
B. Across almost all demographic groups, only about one in 20 individuals (5%) would be motivated to report outside the company by a monetary reward.
C. Reporting numbers are higher at companies that are showing signs of recovering from the recession than those that are still struggling.
D. All of the above.

4. According to the article, "Employees who have the courage to raise their hand and report wrongdoing form the front line of a culture of compliance".

True False

5. The following is a true statement mentioned in the article.

A. Study shows that reporting rates are smaller at companies with strong ethics programs.
B. The supplemental study said that more of the workers reported wrongdoing if they believe their company rewards ethical conduct.
C. Employees prefer to take the resolution of company violations outside the company.
D. None of the above.

6. The Ethics Resource Center is devoted to independent research and the advancement of high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions.

True False

7. Ethics is the branch of study dealing with what is the proper course of action for man. It answers the question

A. What do I do?
B. How should I be?
C. Should I follow the law?.
D. All of the above.

8. Ethics is a requirement of human life. It is our means of

A. Pursuing our goals with the possibility of success.
B. Deciding a course of action.
C. Picking between limitless number of goals.
D. Reducing our ability to be successful in our endeavors.

9. A proper foundation of ethics requires

A. That we recognize that our lives are an end in themselves.
B. That sacrifice be necessary and destructive.
C. A standard of value to which all goals and actions can be composed to.
D. That happiness is our ultimate standard of value.

10. For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors. And according to the article,

A. No one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good in to live it.
B. Everyone came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.
C. People study philosophy so they can know how to become leaders in their community.
D. People study philosophy so they can know how to live happily.

11. According to the article, your life as your moral standard is a life in which

A. You must learn which values to hold and how to achieve them.
B. All moral questions (questions of right action) are questions of how to live happily and successfully.
C. All moral principles must be measured against how they promote and benefit your life and happiness.
D. All of the above.

12. According to the article, your life as your moral standard holds all things promoting your life as the good.

True False

13. Choosing life as your standard of value is a pre-moral choice and can either be right or wrong, and once chosen it is the role of morality to help one live the best life possible.

True False

14. According to this article, the apposite of choosing life is altruism. It is the moral doctrine that

A. Holds all things "selfish" as good.
B. Holds death as its moral standard.
C. Does not matter what you do as long as you further your life.
D. None of the above.

15. The consistent altruist will give up every bit of food he owns to other people because that is what he considers good, and die because of it.

True False

16.  Your life as your standard does not mean trampling on other people to get what you want. This is not in your rational self-interest. It is in your interest to

A. Hedonism.
B. Be benevolent.
C. Be altruistic.
D. None of the above.

17. With ones own life as the standard of value, morality is not a burden to bear, but

A. One's ability to choose rationally among values.
B. Moral habits which tend to help you gain values.
C. A prudent and effective guide which furthers life and success.
D. Pretty much anything goes provided one avoids a few problem areas.

18. Justice is the virtue of treating people in accordance with their actions. It is applying the law of identity to people. All people are not equal. some are good and some are evil and

A. They must be treated accordingly.
B. It is at the expense of friendships and the enormous material wealth possible in a society.
C. They eventually become a benefit to others.
D. Are seeking indirect theft through benefits by government.

19. Rationality is the habit of acting by reason, which means in accordance with the facts of reality. Additionally, the following is also true regarding rationality.

A. An action based on a belief in a particular  cause-effect.
B. By choosing to act irrationally, you are confessing your lack of trust in your own mind.
C. Rationality is in your self interest because the only way to achieve desired outcomes is to act according to reality.
D. All of the above.

20. One must achieve values in order to live. Productiveness is the virtue of achieving values. It is the fullest use of one's mind in seeking and achieving those values. It's primary use is in the creation of wealth. To live, one needs physical wealth (meaning food, shelter, etc.) in order to survive. Productiveness is the virtue of creating this wealth and

A. Dependent on producing physical goods.
B. Directly responsible for the forwarding of one's life.
C. Does not need to be profitable to be called productive.
D. All of the above.

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