Chapter 7 Multiple Choice Questions

Employees and business ethics
. _______ economy is the term used to describe individuals being hired for a specific task rather than on a long-term basis. While this results in _________ which is beneficial for businesses, issues for those employed in such a manner relate to increased ________, uncertainty and a lack of _______.

. Which of the following elements according to Crane (2013) describe modern slavery?
1. Forced work through threat;
2. Ownership or control by an employer though not though mental, physical or threatened abuse;
3. Dehumanization and treatment as a resource;
4. Physical constraint or restriction in freedom of movement;
5. Subjection to emotional exploitation.

. ______ are the obligations of workers towards their employer, based on individual contracts and wider employment laws.

. Affirmative action involves ________ attempts to target ______ who are _________ within an organisation's workforce, for instance by trying to ______ the proportion of women, disabled or racial minorities in senior management positions.

. There are two main issues associated with _____ sizing. _______ is a key issue as due to the information policy of the corporation it can be argued that employees have a right to know if they are being made redundant. _______ is a second issue, particularly the ________ package that employees receive when laid off.

. The Right to _______ has been a long-standing ethical concern for employees which today are addressed in most developed countries through a dense network of occupational health, safety and environmental regulations companies must abide by.

. _______ working practices refer to working patterns which involve temporal, spatial and task related fluidity.

. The race to the ______ is when, due to increased ________, countries compete for foreign investment through companies' relocation decisions by weakening their ______ and _____ standards.

. ______ the workplace involves empowering employees through, for example, 'job enrichment' where employees are given a larger scope for deciding how to organize their work or 'job enlargement' where employees are given a wider range of tasks to do.

. ______ is an employee's preferred ratio between work-related and non-work-related activities which, due to intensification of work and technological shifts, has become a hotly contested issue in recent years.

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