businesses ’ traditional attitude towards B u s i n e s s F i n a n c e

I’m working on a business test / quiz prep and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Choose three of the following questions, and type up ½ page – 1 page on each. Answers must be typed, double spaced, with 12 pt. font.

1. What have businesses’ traditional attitude towards the environment been? Include in your answer a discussion of the tragedy of the commons and externality or spillover.

2. Compare and contrast the idea that the people who should pay for the costs of improving the environment are those who are responsible and those who would benefit.

3. Explain the approach to achieving environmental goals that involves pricing mechanisms and pollution permits.

4. Compare and contrast William F. Baxter to Holmes Rolston III.

5. Describe the history of the union movement. Include a discussion of the National Labor Relations Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, right to work states, and open shop laws.

6. Give two examples of employees taking legal recourse for being wrongfully dismissed.

7. Describe the history of the union movement. Include a discussion of the National Labor Relations Act, the Taft-Hartley Act, right to work states, and open shop laws.

8. What is a primary boycott, a secondary boycott, and a corporate campaign?

9. What was the ethical issue concerning the incidents with eastern airlines and Hewlett-Packard discussed in the text?

10. What is Off-the-Job-Conduct? Be sure to give an example from the text of an employer monitoring said conduct.

11. Discuss Polygraph Tests, False Positives, and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act.

12. What is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act? What role does it play in determining how employers can monitor their employees?

13. Describe what happened in the case of the US vs. O’Hagan.

14. Discuss the seven factors that determine the morality of giving a business gift.

15. What are the 5 conditions that Bowie says determine the moral justification of whistle blowing?