College of Business Administration

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Business Ethics and Social Issues Exercises:

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29 OCTOBER 561.1 SEMINAR PRESENTATION QUESTIONNAIRE

Directions: Fill out this questionnaire on-line, and then print the results and bring to class (do not submit electronically).

First Name: Last Name:

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1. The government uses its regulatory power efficiently and appropriately.

Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
2. Governmental agencies should use their power of regulation to maintain an acceptable level of moral behavior within society.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
3. The government should consider removing its regulatory activities with drugs as other countries have done.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
4. The government's attempt to enforce "prohibition" was a mistake.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
5. The government should regulate all substances and products that have potentially dangerous side-effects.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
6. The benefits to all of mankind of scientific advances (such as fetal tissue being used to cure terminal diseases such as Parkinson's) outweigh the associated costs or other "rights" concerns.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
7. Research into beneficial uses of cloning technology (including human cloning) should be banned outright on moral grounds.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
8. If a cancer cure was found, the company finding the cure should own the rights to sell its products and be able to trade it freely in the economy, according to supply and demand.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
9. The government should regulate scientific activity that applies to the future of mankind (i.e. AIDS research, e-coli bacteria vaccines, cloning, nuclear testing, and genetic intervention).
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Indifferent
Agree
Strongly Agree
10. Have you ever participated in a debate?
Yes
No
11. Would you be willing to do assert your opinion in a competitive format during class in exchange for Rockets tickets?
Yes
No
12. Survey of Ethical Theoretic Aptitudes Score:

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