Test Your Ethics - Ethics Quiz!

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This is a little test that we did in Management class at Uni. It's a simple test of your ethics. For convienience I suggest that you print, so you can tick the box, but you could just keep a tally on a piece of paper. For each question answer one of the following:

Strongly Agree	= SA
Agree	= A
Disagree	= D
Strongly Disagree	= SD

There'll be more instructions at the bottom of the page.

		SA	A	D	SD
1.	Employees should not be expected to inform on their peers for wrongdoings.	___	___	___	___
2.	There are times when a manager must overlook contract and safety ciolations in order to get on with the job	___	___	___	___
3.	It is not always possible to keep accurate expense account records; therefore, it is sometimes necessary to give approximate figures.	___	___	___	___
4.	There are times when it is necessary to withhold embarrassing information from one's manager.	___	___	___	___
5.	We should do what our managers suggest, though we may have doubts about it being the right thing to do.	___	___	___	___
6.	It is sometimes necessay to conduct personal business on company time.	___	___	___	___
7.	Sometimes it is good psychology to set goals somewhat above normal if it will help to obtain a greater effort from the sales force.	___	___	___	___
8.	I would quote a 'hopeful' shipping date in order to get the order.	___	___	___	___
9.	It is proper to use the company line for personal STD and ISD calls.	___	___	___	___
10.	Management must be goal orientated; therefore, the end justifies the means.	___	___	___	___
11.	If it takes heavy entertainment and twisting a bit of company policy to win a large contract, I would authorise it.	___	___	___	___
12.	Exceptions to company policy and precedures are a way of life.	___	___	___	___
13.	Inventory controls should be designed to report 'underages' rather than 'overages' in goods received (Not enough received, as apposed to too much).	___	___	___	___
14.	Occasional use of the companies copier for personal or community activities is acceptable.	___	___	___	___
15.	Taking home company property (Pencils, paper, tape, etc.) for personal use is an accepted fringe benefit.	___	___	___	___

Whew! That took some typing...
Anyway, Now you should add up how many ticks you have under each catagory. The total number should be 15, or you've done something wrong. Getting on, you have to multiply those numbers by the numbers listed below:

SA	x 3
A	x 2
D	x 1
SD	x 0

From this you'll get 4 new numbers. You add these up to get a result between 0 and 45. If that explanation was confusing, then I'll put an example:
When I did the test, I got 0 in the SA column, 10 in the A column, 4 in the D column, and 1 in the SD column. This is then put into the little table as follows:

SA -	0	x 3 =	0
A -	10	x 2 =	20
D -	4	x 1 =	4
SD -	1	x 0 =	0
Total =			24

Now, if click on the link to the next page, you'll learn what that number between 0 and 45 means! Go to the Results Page!