Use of the polygraph has been banned in virtually all situations.
Affirmative action postures are noted as ‘soft” or “weak.”
Practically speaking the corporate CEO often does the work the nominating committee
should do.
Many government regulations over business have been created by the efforts of special
interest groups.
Some analysts believe that business’s social legitimacy is fragile.
Employees have enjoyed steadily improving work conditions.
Before managers in the firm can identify what stakes are held, they must first identify
who the stakeholders are.
Ethics refers to issues of right and wrong, fairness, and justice.
The primary strategy for a manager relative to a marginal stakeholder is to monitor that
group.
One of the recurring problems in industries that have been deregulated is that they tend
to become dominated by a few firms.
Drug testing by companies has risen continuously since first introduced.
The percentage of the U.S. population that has earned high school diplomas and college
degrees has remained about the same over the last thirty years.
Business support for the arts has been increasing.
The recent settlement with tobacco companies has successfully resolved the issue of
advertising tobacco products to children.
Moral identification and ordering refers to the ability to discern the ambiguity of moral
factors.
Movies depict corporate life as amoral and possibly deadly.
Affluence refers to the level of wealth, disposable income, and standard of living of a
society.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act makes whistle-blowing much easier.
As environmental uncertainty increases, firms tend to increase their buffering and
bridging activities.
Water pollution occurs almost exclusively in industrialized countries.
The effects of advertising have clearly had a net positive effect on society.
The success of peer review panels depends on the quality of panelists.
The consumer movement is still absolutely essential for achieving a fair and just
marketplace for all consumers.
A crisis is an extreme event that may threaten your very existence.
A full warranty implies that all parts of the product and all types of defects are covered
by the company’s guarantee.
Product liability is a major issue in all countries.
The corporate system as a whole rarely addresses the idea of social legitimacy.
The business environment in current times, the first decade of the 21st century, can best
be described as turbulent.
One of the reasons that the stakeholder model is becoming more popular is because the
stakeholder environment is finally calming down after several decades of turbulence.
For the public affairs function to be effective in representing issues affecting business
decision making, they should have influence at the middle management level.
The social contract in the modern era is changing rapidly and dramatically.
The steps of the strategic management process are most effective if done sequentially in
the order specified in the textbook.
Failure to discipline someone who violates the organization’s ethics standards implies
approval of the person’s behavior.
For large corporations today, political involvement is not optional and government has
granted them more power to do so.
Negative externalities are the additional costs incurred by business due to the outside
regulations placed by government.
Integrity tests are known as the father of the polygraph.
Employers’ monitoring of workers is not limited to their use of computers and the
Internet.
Government regulation of business through the control of economic or market variables
is a form of
A.negative externality.
B.social cost.
C.economic regulation.
D.indirect cost.
The state-issued document that grants the corporation’s right to exist and stipulating the
basic terms of its existence is a(n)
A.certificate of legitimacy.
B.occupancy permit.
C.charter.
D.article of incorporation.
Which of the following is not considered a questionable business practice made
possible by the Internet?
A.plagiarism
B.pornography
C.gambling
D.music downloading
Copyrighted material, such as songs or poems, are often referred to as
A.e-commerce.
B.legally protected digitals.
C.intellectual property.
D.downloadables.
Major life activities include all of the following except
A.learning.
B.thinking.
C.concentrating.
D.walking.
The top PAC contributor during the 2010 election cycle was
A.International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
B.Teamsters.
C.Service Employees International Union.
D.Lockheed Martin.
The United States’ global economic leadership is demonstrated by the fact that more
than half of the world’s largest MNCs are based in America.
Which of the following is not a guideline for developing a community involvement
strategy?
A.Employees should be involved.
B.Involvement should be in areas that the company knows best.
C.The company should get involved in projects that will help it make more profit.
D.The best kind of support is that which helps others help themselves.
All of the following are arguments commonly made against corporate social
responsibility except
A.social problems should be addressed first by the free-market economic system, and
then, if necessary, by government.
B.business is not equipped to handle social activities.
C.business already has enough power–it should not be given more.
D.business did not create today’s social problems, so it should not be expected to solve
them.
Lobbying efforts that do not represent the genuine concerns of the citizens supposedly
involved is called
A.grassroots lobbying.
B.astroturf lobbying.
C.cyberadvocacy.
D.company lobbying.
The primary responsibility for product safety lies with the
A.consumer.
B.government.
C.producer.
D.Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Which of the following is not an example of corruption?
A.bribery
B.paying for political favors
C.negotiating for the lowest price on a contract
D.paying protection money to the police
Stakeholders who have a high potential for cooperation and a low potential for threat to
the firm are known as ____ stakeholders.
A.mixed blessing
B.supportive
C.nonsupportive
D.marginal
Technology-based advancements and progress in the applied sciences that help achieve
a practical purpose is part of a firm’s
A.social environment.
B.political environment.
C.economic environment.
D.technological environment.
Questions and dimensions can be used to rank or prioritize issues. Which of the
following is not included?
A.likelihood of occurrence
B.impact on the organization
C.how much impact will it have
D.knowledge of the business
The intermediate level of business power is found in
A.corporate headquarters.
B.the boards of individual corporations.
C.groups of corporations acting in concert.
D.medium-sized corporations.
The Tylenol case in the 1980s, in which capsules were injected with cyanide, is an
example of
A.product extortion.
B.product liability.
C.product tampering.
D.product packaging.
Sexual harassment
A.is a worldwide problem.
B.affects men and women in equal numbers.
C.is relatively easy to prove in courts.
D.is clearly defined in the law.
The relationship between corporate social performance and financial performance is
viewed from three different perspectives. The perspective that views social
responsibility as a “fair weather” concept
A.has been studied extensively.
B.views social responsibility as driven by the firm’s financial performance.
C.is the most popular of the three perspectives.
D.sees an interactive relationship among social performance, financial performance,
and corporate reputation.
Current standards for SA800 include all the following except
A.certifications.
B.compensations.
C.management systems.
D.child labor.
Which of the following is not listed as a question to ask in order to gain the essential
information needed for stakeholder management?
A.Who are our stakeholders?
B.What do our stakeholders want?
C.What are our stakeholders’ stakes?
D.What opportunities and challenges do our stakeholders present to the firm?
The opposite of privatization could be considered
A.creeping expropriation.
B.industrial policy.
C.subsidization.
D.federalization.
Carroll’s corporate social performance model can be used in all of the ways listed below
except
A.providing a conceptualization that could lead to better managed social performance.
B.providing answers to specific social problems.
C.using it as a planning tool.
D.identifying categories within which the organization can be situated.
The ethics of care may help managers utilize
A.deontological principles.
B.the stakeholder perspective.
C.utilitarianism.
D.the principle of rights.
The Civil Corporation identifies four ways in which business firms respond to social
pressures. Which of the following is not one of those?
A.defensive approach
B.cost-benefit approach
C.strategic approach
D.stakeholder approach
As the regulatory environment has become more complex, businesses have had little
choice but to
A.move offshore.
B.follow the rules closely.
C.become more politically active.
D.avoid the political process.
An ethical principle based on the idea that an individual should maximize their own
self-interests is called
A.unethical egoism.
B.ethical egoism.
C.conscience egoism.
D.conventional egoism.
Payment of a bribe implies some type of
A.extortion.
B.quid pro quo.
C.gambling.
D.physical harm to the payee.
Which of the following is not a requirement of a due process system?
A.It must follow rules and not be arbitrary.
B.It must be well documented.
C.It must be predictably effective.
D.It must be perceived as equitable.
Workers who are more likely to be exposed to workplace violence than their peers are
ones who
A.deliver things.
B.work in small towns.
C.work for the post office.
D.work during the afternoon and early evening hours.
The ethical principle that states, “we should always act so as to produce the greatest
ratio of good to evil for everyone” is
A.deontology.
B.virtue ethics.
C.utilitarianism.
D.hedonism.
Legal challenges to the employment-at-will doctrine include all the following except
A.public policy exceptions.
B.contractual actions.
C.firing exceptions.
D.breach of good faith actions.
Which of the following is not an element of the issues management process?
A.issues identification
B.prioritizing issues
C.eliminating issues
D.monitoring results of responses to issues
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Articulate a brief history of government’s role in business.
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
In the 1890s, the Robber Barons began to use their personal wealth and the wealth
accumulated by their corporations to enhance the social good. Their philanthropic
activities were encouraged, in part, because public opinion was demanding that the
government do something to limit their power. Is this type of activity still occurring in
the United States? Why or why not?
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
Why is the role of business’s social responsibility so central to the question of
advertising?
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
What’s the danger of a company not being able to define a public issue.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Describe the major sources of pollution in the area where you live.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Some people say that even uninformative advertising is beneficial to consumers and the
economy. Evaluate this argument.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Lawrence Kohlberg found that most adults never get to the third level of moral
development. What implications for management does this observation have?
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
One justification for corporate involvement in the community is that business has a
moral responsibility to build a relationship with the community and to be sensitive to its
impact on the world around it. Discuss this justification using the Seven Standards of
Excellence in Corporate Community Involvement.
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
Describe some of the best family-friendly benefits that are provided to workers.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Stakeholder management does not specify how managers should view the function of
stakeholders. Some view stakeholders as just additional groups to be managed for the
benefit of the firm and its owners. Others view stakeholders as groups to whom the firm
has certain responsibilities that are equally important to duties owed to owners. Discuss
this issue and defend your stance.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Describe and give examples of each of the seven types of crises.
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
Describe socially responsible investing.
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
Compare the potential for invasion of individuals’ privacy from the USA Patriot Act and
the average business.
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
In what do value-based companies believe?
Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions.
Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content
from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
The textbook mentions that business as a whole rarely, if ever, addresses the issue of
legitimacy at the macro level. Imagine that the Chamber of Commerce approaches you
to design a campaign to assure its legitimacy with the public. What kinds of issues
would you address?
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
Considering the textbook example of Switzerland scientists, and looking at the
examples of primary and secondary social and nonsocial stakeholder, distinguish
between social and nonsocial stakeholders. Does your definition of the difference seem
useful to you? Why or why not?
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
Why are church groups particularly visible in the shareholder activist movement?
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
One of the arguments that opponents of corporate social responsibility use is that
business already has enough power, so society should not grant it more power by
relying on it to alleviate social problems. Evaluate this argument.
Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your
answer.
The authors state, “the philosophy of victimization is intimately related to and
sometimes inseparable from the rights movement and the entitlement mentality.”
Explain how these three concepts are related.