Laroussi Haj Keddour Secondary School School Year:2023/2024
Level: 3rd Year scientific Classes Time: 1h
First Term Test
Read the text carefully then do these activities
A strong ethical culture can provide significant benefits to an organization, such as Increased employee
job satisfaction, increased intention to stay, decreased illegal activity, and improved organizational
performance, value, and innovativeness. Encouraging ethical behavior, making ethical leadership a top
priority, establishing ethical hiring standards, and formalizing ethical programs are all effective ways to help
develop and maintain an ethical corporate culture.
A positive ethical reputation results in lower costs, higher sales, increased ability to charge higher prices,
and stronger financial health (e.g., cash-flow, credit constraints). Poor reputations impose substantial
additional penalties from both regulators and customers when unethical conduct occurs. Firms that make an
explicit commitment to follow an ethics code provide twice the value to shareholders than companies that do
not.
Companies with a more ethical culture have higher economic profit brought by market innovation, and
their executives are also more likely to serve on other firm boards with strong ethical reputations and
profitability. Firms with strong corporate ethical value are more likely to have better employee work-
performance. Conversely, firms that engage in unethical conduct have a diminished quality of network
partners, with the deterioration in partner quality tending to be greater for acts of greater misconduct and
result in being less equipped to respond to market demands. Organizations should formally recognize and
reward employee’s ethical conduct and treat the development of an ethical culture as a strategic priority.
www.ethicalsystems.org/ethics-pays/
A/ Comprehension
1- Say whether the following statements are true or false
a- A powerful ethical culture can provide important benefits
b- Low costs and high sales are the effects of a positive ethical reputation
c- Ethically responsible companies don’t make profits
d- Ethical culture has a negative influence the employee work performance
2- Answer the following questions according to the text
a- What are the efficient methods to develop ethical culture?
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b- What happens when unethical conduct occurs?
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c- Do ethically responsible companies have problems with profitability? Justify
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d- What is the strategy that should be implemented by organizations?
3- Identify the paragraph of the following idea:
“companies which don’t commit to follow a code of ethics, don’t provide the value to
shareholder.”……
4- The text is about:
a- Companies and profitability
b- Companies and their reputation
c- Companies and the importance of ethical culture
B/ Text exploration
1- Find in the text words or phrases that are opposites to the following:
a- Inefficient(§1):………b- causes(§2):……..c- worse(§3):……..
2- Divide the following words into roots and affixes. Undergoing – unemployment - misunderstand
prefix root suffix
3- Combine the following pairs of sentences using the given connector
a- businesses make profits. Employers and employees follow ethics code (but only if)
b- Some businessmen have a bad reputation. Some businessmen think ethics are decreasing
productivity (therefore)
4- Reorder the following sentences to get a coherent passage
a- that offers enormous long-term rewards.
b- Companies with ethical cultures will have more sustainable growth, retain and attract the best
employees, earn public trust and consumer loyalty.
c- Building an ethical culture is a challenging task
d- It goes beyond the need to reduce the cost of regulatory action, investigations, and financial
penalties.
Model correction/ Third year scientific stream and management
Full mark Parial marks Possible answers
15 Part one
8 A/ Comprehension
2 0.5×4 1- a- true
b-true
c- false
d- false
4 1×4 2- a- establishing ethical hiring standards, and
formalizing ethical programs are the efficient methods
to develop ethical culture.
b- when unethical conduct occurs , poor reputations
impose sustainable additional penalties from bith
regulators and customers.
c-No, their executives are likely to serve with
strong ethical reputation and profitability.
d-The strategy is that organizations should
formally regonize and reward employee’s
ethical conduct and treat the development of an
1 ethical culture.
3- “companies which don’t commit to follow a code of
1 ethics, don’t provide the value to shareholder” is
mentioned in §2.
7 4- The text is about c- Companies and the importance
1.5 0.5×3 of ethical culture
B/ Text exploration
1- Opposites:
1.5 0.25×6 a- Inefficient(§1): effective
b- causes(§2): results
c- worse(§3): better
2- completing the table
prefix root suffix
3 1.5×2
3- a-Businesses will make profits but only if they
follow ethics code.
b- Some businessmen think ethics are decreasing
1 0.25×4 productivity; therefore, they have a bad reputation
4- Reordering the following sentences
1- C
2- A
3- D
4- B
