Question

Unipeg Corporation has uniform high sales targets for its employees all across the globe, regardless of the environmental constraints in each market. Employees are penalized for any shortfall. This has caused many employees to falsify the values of their sales. In this context, the roots of unethical behavior can be traced to 1. varying ethical standards in different nations. 2. national differences in factors of production. 3. cultural differences of countries. 4. unrealistic performance goals. 5. strong personal ethics among employees.

Answer 1

Answer: 4). Unrealistic performance goals.

Explanation: Ethics are moral principles that guide how an individual acts. Ethics involves integrity and values.

In the context above, employees were given unrealistic sales targets regardless of the economic constraint of the nation. This hampered the ethical nature of some of the Staff as for fear of being penalized they became unethical.