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1. How should your résumé primarily be organized?
Based on your interests
Based on your education
Based on your previous experience
Based on your strengths
Based on your skills
2. Which of the following is a similarity between ethical and legal systems?
Both systems are institutions of the state.
In both systems, the motivation to observe moral values comes from within an individual.
Both systems are based on utilitarian views.
Both systems consist of rules to guide conduct and foster social cooperation.
In both systems, ethical behavior is based on just meeting minimum legal requirements.
3. Starting with your initial contact and continuing throughout the interview process, you should
let the employer determine how to use your knowledge, skills, and abilities.
explain how your skills and accomplishments will meet the needs of the employer.
stress how much getting the job will mean to you.
be honest about the pay and benefits you expect to receive once hired.
press for a decision because you are scheduled for other interviews.
4. The most common organization for a résumé is
organic.
combination.
chronological.
functional.
retrospective.
5. The most common way to organize a résumé is
organically.
functionally.
retrospectively.
chronologically.
6. Which of the following statements is true about the role and effect of profits on ethical corporate behavior?
In many modern business corporations, the responsibility for profit making is decentralized.
Making a profit usually deteriorates the common good.
Profit earning is the least important goal in the contemporary business environment.
A decline in the Protestant ethic reduces the emphasis on corporate profit.
In many situations, focusing on profits hinders managers from engaging in any unethical behavior.
7. Which of the following statements is true of the effect of the group on ethics in a corporate organization?
Individuals hardly do unethical things when they are part of a group.
Coupled with an overemphasis on profit, the group effect reduces the difficulty of achieving an ethical business corporation.
Individuals in groups may feel a diminished sense of responsibility for actions taken, which invites ethical compromise.
In corporate life, it is difficult to overlook the unethical behavior of a superior when many fellow employees are also overlooking it.
Individuals feel more responsible for what happens in a group than in their individual lives.