• Making public statements about the hazardous working conditions in a company .
• Making public the fact that the employer was cheating the government on a defense contract .
• Taking time off from work to care for a dependent without informing t he employer .
• Taking time off from work to serve on jury duty after the boss asked th e employee to request a waiver .
The ideas and philosophies that explain the origin of law and its justifi cation are called :
• jurisprudence
• stare decisis
• torts
• rule of law
Federal law and business leaders alike favor ____________ as a mean s of governing private business ethics .
• establishment of federal regulators in all private companies to establis h and enforce ethical standards
• self-regulation by companies
• giving the federal government exclusive jurisdiction regarding ethics a nd ethics violation enforcement
• creating uniform statutes of business ethics