TOPIC

Ethics and Business Practices

QUESTION

Informing the media, regulators, professional organizations, etc. (that is, spilling the beans or blowing the whistle) on your company’s unethical behavior will result in what?

I) Being promoted with your company

II) Future compensation by your professional organization.

III) Guaranteed job from a company with higher ethical standards

IV) Nice severance package

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) None of the I, II, III or IV

HINTS

The company will be very unhappy that you reported them.

Professional organizations do not compensate whistle blowers.

Finding employment may be difficult for whistle blowers.

ANSWER

(D)

CONTRIBUTOR

This question of the day was provided by the courtesy of  Professor Glen Besterfield of the University of South Florida from the book FE Practice Exam With Complete Solutions