For Course on Legislative Ethics and Codes of Conduct

Unit 1

Question 1. Ethics reforms were originally adopted:

1. By the public sector;
2. By the NGOs;
3. By the companies operating in countries where the labor market is regulated;
4. By the companies operating in countries in which the labor market is unregulated.

Question 2. Ethics reforms were introduced because:

1. Workers were always on strike and companies were often under-performing;
2. Trade unions were always antagonizing management;
3. Governments forced companies to do so;
4. Companies thought that this was the best way to protect their reputation and preserve their competitiveness on the global markets.

Question 3. The establishment of ethics regimes requires:

1. Lowering the costs of labor to preserve companies’ competitiveness on the markets;
2. Governments’ support in the form of state subsidies for the unemployed and the underemployed;
3. Monitoring agencies that certify whether companies the standards that they had set for themselves;
4. Monitoring agencies that establish the standards by which companies should be evaluated.

Unit 3

Question 1. The public sector became sensitive to ethics concerns because:

1. The economy had gone global;
2. The public sector wants to be as efficient as private sector;
3. Government officials are naturally inclined to increase bureaucratic rules and regulations;
4. The public’s trust in the government had dramatically declined.