One of the most common financial-incentive strategy tools is:
A. Political action committee contributions.
B. Political consulting aid.
C. Advocacy advertising.
D. Lobbying.
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Which of the following is a reason for businesses to get involved in the community?
A. To win local support for business activity.
B. To build social capital.
C. To meet stakeholder demands.
D. All of the above.
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Which of the following is not an example of stakeholders’ economic power?
A. A toy manufacturer halts supplies to a customer that demanded very low prices.
B. A social group protests a government’s decision to raise taxes.
C. A local community boycotts a grocery store suspected of inaccurate weight scales.
D. An equal rights group refuses to do business with a business that has a
discriminatory hiring policy.
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The Interactive Digital Software Association case exemplifies:
A. The idea that laws can not always define proper action.
B. The idea that ethical principles are broader than laws.
C. Industries preempting legislation and voluntarily adopting ethically based practices.
D. All of the above.
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Business managers need a set of ethical guidelines to help them:
A. Understand the changing customs throughout the world.
B. Justify the resolution which best helps themselves.
C. Identify and analyze the nature of ethical problem.
D. None of the above.
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Which of the following is true about corporate boards?
A. Corporate boards average 12 members.
B. About half of the directors are “outside” directors.
C. Only one-third of all companies have at least one woman on their board.
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Which of the following is (are) true about honesty tests?
A. Employees welcome the opportunity to prove their honesty.
B. It is a written psychological test trying to predict employee honesty on the job.
C. It has been found to be an effective way of determining employees’ integrity.
D. All of the above.
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The drivers of stakeholders of engagement are:
A. Scanning, assessment, and growth.
B. Data, strategy, and organizational development.
C. Goals, motivation, and operational capacity.
D. Financial, operational, and legal.
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Typically, ethics training is offered to:
A. Managers.
B. To the rank-and-file.
C. Both managers and the rank-and-file.
D. The Board of Directors only.
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Reregulation is:
A. The adoption of regulation in another country to promote trade.
B. Necessary since all regulation has a time limit.
C. The increase or expansion of government regulation.
D. The shifting of regulation to the state level from the national level.
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A social enterprise:
A. Adopts social benefit as its core mission.
B. Adopts profit maximization as its core mission.
C. Can only be adopted by small firms.
D. Does not use business strategies to improve environmental well-being.
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The major federal consumer protection agencies are authorized by law to:
A. Intervene directly into the very center of free market activities, if that is considered
necessary to protect consumers.
B. Substitute government-mandated standards for decision making by private buyers
and sellers.
C. Intervene in the market by influencing consumers to buy one product or service
rather than another.
D. Both A and B, but not C
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Under the U.S. Corporate Sentencing Guidelines, if a firm has developed a strong ethics
program, corporate executives found guilty of criminal activity may have their
sentence:
A. Increased.
B. Reduced.
C. Unaffected.
D. Decided by the company.
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By promoting the use of clean cookstoves in developing nations, a global alliance hopes
to reduce:
A. Deforestation,
B. The burning of fossil fuels.
C. Black carbon.
D. Methane.
Answer:
According to a survey conducted by The Economist in 2008, how many respondents say
corporate citizenship can help increase their companies’ profits?
A. 11%.
B. 25%.
C. 74%.
C. 91%.
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When the benefits of an action outweigh its costs, the action is considered ethically
preferred according to:
A. Utilitarian reasoning.
B. Virtue ethics.
C. Theological reasoning.
D. Plato and Aristotle.
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Government efforts at controlling the Internet are found in which country?
A. China.
B. Saudi Arabia.
C. Pakistan.
D. All of the above.
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Past decisions of the courts, the original basis for the U.S. legal system, are called:
A. Torts.
B. Amendments.
C. Legitimate actions.
D. Common laws.
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In 2011, what percentage of corporate officers of the Fortune 500 companies were
women?
A. 14 percent.
B. 25 percent.
C. 45 percent.
D. 69 percent.
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A number of European countries require public companies to include employee
members on their boards of directors, so:
A. The employees are available to answer questions.
B. Management does not have to attend the meetings.
C. That their interests will be explicitly represented.
D. They have more power than any other stakeholder.
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Building ethical safeguards into a company’s everyday routines is called:
A. Change management.
B. Justifying ethics.
C. Institutionalizing ethics.
D. Ethical awareness.
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These individuals hack into government or corporate computer networks and then
release information to try to embarrass those organizations or gain leverage against
these organizations:
A. Zombies.
B. Comodohackers.
C. Hacktivists.
D. Cyberattackers.
Answer:
Philanthropic funding and public relations are two examples of corporate social
responsibility:
A. Drivers of the Corporate Social Responsiveness phase.
B. Policy instruments of the Corporate Social Stewardship phase.
C. Policy instruments of the Corporate Social Responsiveness phase.
D. Drivers of the Charity Principle phase.
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A financial services firm decided to assess the return on its social investment in an
educational program in local schools. As part of its assessment, it measured the
improvement in learning among students who had participated in the program,
compared with the learning of students who had not. Which of the following elements
was assessed?
A. Inputs.
B. Outputs.
C. Impacts.
D. Value creation.
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Which of the following is (are) true about Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)?
A. They offer counseling and follow-up to alcohol abusers.
B. Roughly 90 percent of employers offer EAPs for alcohol users.
C. In general, EAPs have been very cost-effective.
D. All of the above.
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Which of the following statements is true about community relations?
A. Fewer than half of companies have a written policy or mission statement for their
community relations program.
B. Less than 10 percent of companies include a statement in their annual report on their
commitment to community relations.
C. About 80 percent of companies factor community involvement into their overall
strategic plan.
D. Businesses still generally regard community relations as a nuisance and a drain on
economic resources.
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Which of the following countries has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol?
A. Germany.
B. France.
C. United States.
D. United Kingdom.
Answer:
Which of the following is not a motivation for publishing a corporate social report?
A. Ethical concerns.
B. Economic considerations.
C. Stakeholder engagement.
D. Avoiding transparency.
Answer:
If a manager approaches ethical issues with a self-centered approach, emphasis will be
on:
A. Integrity.
B. Social relationship.
C. Economic efficiency.
D. Laws.
Answer:
The phenomenon of a person or group holding multiple stakeholder duties is referred to
as:
A. Role sets.
B. Primary Stakeholder(s).
C. Ownership Theory.
D. None of the above.
Answer:
Scholars have found:
A. No relationship between social and financial performance.
B. A negative relationship between social and financial performance.
C. An inverse relationship between social and financial performance.
D. A positive association between social and financial performance.
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Which of the following statements is not true about environmental standards?
A. Regulatory agencies can establish standard allowable levels of pollutants.
B. The government has the power to command business firms to comply with certain
standards.
C. The government rarely interferes in a business’s choice of pollution technology.
D. They are the most widely used methods of regulation.
Answer:
Stakeholder partnerships, high-tech communication networks, and sustainability audits
are examples of:
A. Corporate social stewardship.
B. Corporate social responsiveness.
C. Corporate/Business Ethics.
D. Corporate/Global Citizenship.
Answer:
According to Philip H. Mirvis’ and Bradley K. Googins’ model, how many stages are
there of global corporate citizenship?
A. Three.
B. Five.
C. Seven.
D. Twelve.
Answer:
Over time the workforce will continue to change. How do you see the face of the
workforce in 20 years? In what ways will continued diversity create competitive
advantages for companies? Discuss based on the material in the textbook.
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Since surfing the Internet for medical information is widespread, how can the quality of
information provided online be verified as accurate or reliable?
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Describe the iron law of responsibility.
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The solar power industry has yet to become an active participant in the U.S. political
environment.
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What defines an environmental problem that is inherently global in scope? Discuss in
detail two of the four global problems outlined in the textbook that will have major
consequences for business and society.
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