首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It seemed to me, and still does, that the system of American business often produces wrong, immoral and irresponsible decisions,
It seemed to me, and still does, that the system of American business often produces wrong, immoral and irresponsible decisions,
admin
2013-01-29
80
问题
It seemed to me, and still does, that the system of American business often produces wrong, immoral and irresponsible decisions, even though the personal morality of the people running the businesses is often above reproach. The system has a different morality as a group than the people do as individuals, which permits it to willfully produce ineffective or dangerous products, deal dictatorially and often unfairly with suppliers, pay bribes for business, abrogate the rights of employees by demanding blind loyalty to management or tamper with the democratic process of government through illegal political contributions.
I am not a psychologist, so I can’t offer a professional opinion on what happens to the freedom of individual minds when they are blended into the group management through process of business. But my private analysis is this: morality has to do with people. If an action is hewed primarily from the perspective of its effect on people, it is put into the moral realm.
Business in America, however, is impersonal. This is particularly true of large American multi-national corporations. They are viewed by their employees and publics as faceless. They have no personality. The ultimate measure of success and failure of these businesses is not their effect on people but rather their earnings per share of stock. If earnings are high, the business is considered good. If they are low or in the red ink, it is considered a failure. The first question to greet any business proposal is how will it effect profits? People do not enter the equation of a business decisions except to the extent that the effect on them will hurt or enhance earnings per share. In such a completely impersonal context, business decisions of questionable personal morality are easily justified. The unwavering devotion to the bottom line brings this about, and the American public until now has been more than willing to accept this. When someone is forced into early retirement in a management power-play or supplier is cheated out of sale by under-the-table dealings, the public reaction is generally, "Oh, well. That’s business." And management’s reaction is often, "it’s what’s on the bottom line that counts." A person who shoots and kills an other is sentenced to life in prison. A business man who makes a defective product which kills people may get a nominal fine or a verbal slap on the hands, ff he is ever brought to trial at all.
The public attitude towards immoral business decisions is generally ______.
选项
A、tolerant
B、indignant
C、indifferent
D、supportive
答案
A
解析
由文中the public reaction is generally... “Oh, well. That’s business.”可知公众对此持比较宽容,容忍的态度。根本谈不上支持这种商业对人的漠视态度。American public until now has been more than willing to accept this.只是说与原来那种根本反对的态度相比变得比较愿意接受了,也就是比较能容忍这种现象了,所以正确答案应为A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/T41O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
CollegesportsintheUnitedStatesareahugedeal.AlmostallmajorAmericanuniversitieshavefootball,baseball,basketball
Securityandcommodityexchangesaretradingpostswherepeoplemeetwhowishtobuyandsell.Theexchangesthemselvesdonotr
FirstlaunchedinAprilthisyear,NetMySingaporealsoincludeseffortsthattraining,development,andtheexplorationofnew
Thereweretwowidelydivergentinfluencesontheearlydevelopmentofstatisticalmethods.Statisticshadamotherwhowasdedi
Alaska’sTongassandChugachNationalForestsareAmerica’sfirstandsecondlargestnationalforests______.
ThehistoryofAfrican—Americansduringthepast400yearsistraditionallynarrated【41】anongoingstraggleagainst【42】andindif
TheIntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChangeconcludedthatglobalwarmingisnogame.Theyprovideevidencethatheat-trapping
Neverhasastraitjacketseemedsoill-fittingorsoinsecure.TheEuroarea’s"stabilityandgrowthpact"wassupposedtostop
Ihavehadjustaboutenoughofbeingtreatedlikeasecond-classcitizen,simplybecauseIhappentobethatput-uponmemberof
随机试题
刘老师在教学过程中不仅注重学生对基本概念、公式的理解与掌握,还关注如何让学生准确地对图表中的主要信息和辅助信息进行鉴别、筛选和提取。刘老师遵循的教学规律是()。
影响抗原抗体反应速度的主要因素是
理中丸中的君药是理中丸中的佐药是
患者,孕4个月余。小腹绵绵作痛,按之痛减,面色萎黄,头晕心悸,舌淡苔薄白。脉细滑弱。多属于
(2012年)2011年12月,甲市乙县国税局对锦绣服装公司进行税务检查时发现,该公司一笔账务处理异常,乙县国税局认为,该公司购进的某批布料用于非应税项目,其进项税额276000元不应抵扣。乙县国税局决定:依法追缴该公司少缴的增值税税款,并加收相应的滞纳金
某企业年初的资产负债率为70%,年末若使债权人资本受股东权益保障的程度提高10%。企业年末的资产负债率为()。
管理需要大量费用,而不是简单的认为,购买房屋后就可以一劳永逸。房屋保养需要大量的追加投资,根据大量实际数据测算,砌体结构房屋的建安造价与建筑寿命期的维修养护管理费用的比率平均达到()。
秦始皇陵兵马俑是在()年发现的。
《坛经》中记载:“时有风吹幡动,一僧日风动,一僧日幡动,议论不已。惠能进曰:不是风动,不是幡动,仁者心动。”这段话表明惠能关于运动的基本观点是()。
IS09000系列标准和软件成熟度模型CMM都着眼于质量和过程管理。IS09000系列标准的主导思想是:强调质量(1);使影响产品质量的全部因素始终处于(2)状态;要求证实企业具有持续提供符合要求产品的(3);强调质量管理必须始终坚持进行质量(4)。而CM
最新回复
(
0
)