PHI 2604 FINAL: LIST OF TOPICS & LINK

Chapter 6
1. What's “job description” and “job specification”?
2. “Aptitude test,” “personality test,” “skill test.”
3. Distinction between “validity” and “reliability.”
4. Qualifications vs. seniority.
5. “Inbreeding” and “nepotism.”
6. “Due process” and “just cause.”
7. The difference between “firing,” “terminations,” “layoff” and “position elimination.”
8. Go over the seven guidelines on wages established on pp. 289, 290.
9. Highlights of the history of the Union Movement.
10. Direct strike and Gonsalves’ 3-point criteria.

Chapter 7
1. Informed consent
2. Why do companies use “personality tests”?
3. Drug testing

Chapter 8
1. “Conflict of interest”
2. Insider trading
3. What happens when novel information is patented or copyrighted? What’s a trade secret?
4. Define bribe and kickback
5. Seven rules on “gifts.”
6. Define “whistle blowing.”

Chapter 9
1. Job discrimination
2. Highlights of the legal context of Affirmative Action: Brown v. Board of Education, the 1961 executive order, Civil Rights Act of 1964, etc.
3. Arguments in favor and against affirmative action
4. What is “sexual harassment”? Two common types of sexual harassment.

Chapter 10
1. What is the meaning of “due care” and “caveat emptor”
2. Define “legal paternalism.”
3. Go over the 6 steps on page 514, regarding business responsibilities.
4. Define: a) Express warranty, b) implied warranty, c) merchantability.
5. Describe: a) “price fixing,” b) “price gouging.”
6. Differentiate: a) ambiguity, b) concealed facts, d) exaggeration, e) psychological appeals
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Moral Issues in Business Link. To the left of the page, you have the chapters (6-10), then, check each of the tutorial exams. Play with it and have fun. I may use some of these questions for the midterm. (Don't forget to bring your scantron sheets to the exam).