The Group of Eight has now expanded and is currently known as:
A.G20.
B.G24.
C.G77.
D.G8 + 5.
Which of the following is true regarding the implications of the current population
trend?
A.The global population growth is rising.
B.The global population growth will be lowest in the least developed countries.
C.The wealth gap between the high-and-low-income countries will narrow down.
D.The global population growth will continue to strain the earth’s ecosystem.
Aristotle’s idea that “virtue requires moderation” is an essential part of the:
A.disclosure rule.
B.Doctrine of the Mean.
C.might-equals-right ethic.
D.intuition ethic.
Which of the following was passed to prevent racial discrimination in “inns, public
conveyances on land or water, theaters and other places of public amusement”?
A.The Civil Rights Act of 1875
B.Executive Order 11246
C.The Civil Rights Act of 1866
D.Executive Order 10925
Which of the following is a trend that works in the legal environment to constrain
business behavior?
A.Laws and regulations steadily decline in number and complexity.
B.Legal duties to protect the rights of stakeholders have lessened.
C.Globalization has decreased the complexity of the legal environment by shielding
corporations from the laws of foreign nations.
D.Although requirements of ethical behavior and corporate social responsibility go
beyond legal duty, they are continuously encoded into law.
Which of the following, released by industrial activity and combustion, is composed of
small fragments suspended in the air?
A.Methane
B.Particulate matter
C.Volatile organic compounds
D.Toluene
The structures and processes in a society that authoritatively make and apply policies
and rules are called ________.
A.ideas
B.ideologies
C.governments
D.institutions
Which of the following believed that both good and evil were a natural part of human
nature?
A.The realist school
B.The school of ethical relativism
C.The school of ethical universalism
D.The legalist school
Usually, CEO pay is determined by:
A.market forces in the competition for managerial talent.
B.managerial power.
C.assets under management.
D.their ability to set their own pay.
Voluntarily adopted guidelines for corporate behavior derived from emerging norms
and standards in international codes, declarations, and conventions are called:
A.diplomatic laws.
B.soft laws.
C.case laws.
D.traditional laws.
Which of the following correctly outlines the corporate social responsibility spectrum
reading from left to right?
A.Free market conservatives, mainstream corporate managers, progressive civil
societies, and radical Progressives.
B.Radical Progressives, mainstream corporate managers, progressive civil societies,
and free market conservatives.
C.Free market conservatives, progressive civil societies, and radical Progressives.
D.Radical Progressives, progressive civil societies, mainstream corporate managers,
and free market conservatives.
Companies that join the ____, a voluntary initiative, must reduce emissions, energy use,
and waste beyond legal requirements.
A.EcoManagement and Audit Scheme
B.International Organization for Standardization
C.Principles for Responsible Investment
D.FTSE4Good Global Index
The Roman Catholic Church exhorted the merchants to charge a _____ price for their
wares.
A.market
B.natural
C.promotional
D.just
An environmental force of unknown origin and mysterious action that provides the
energy for events is known as a:
A.proposition.
B.scenario.
C.historical force.
D.premise.
The modern impetus for this theory comes from the sociologist C. Wright Mills.
A.Pluralist theory
B.Theory of elite dominance
C.State autonomy theory
D.Positive political theory
When a manager is trying to decide how to treat a subordinate, he asks himself: “If I
treat this person in this way, would I want to switch places with this subordinate and
have my supervisor treat me in this way?” In this scenario, he is applying the:
A.press test.
B.reversibility test.
C.others test.
D.universalizability test.
The belief that each race has distinctive cultural characteristics and that one’s own race
is superior to other races is called:
A.ethnocentrism.
B.ethnic essentialism.
C.sexism.
D.racism.
Executive-branch agencies have to submit proposed and final rules to the ____, whereas
independent regulatory commissions must follow procedures in the:
A.Office of Administration; Congressional Review Act.
B.Office of Management and Budget; Sherman Antitrust Act.
C.Office of Personnel Management; Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.
D.Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Administrative Procedures Act.
What are the responsibilities of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
All of the following ratios are used to compute the TNI EXCEPT:
A.foreign employment to total employment.
B.foreign assets to total assets.
C.foreign sales to total sales.
D.foreign assets to total unemployment.
Which of the following is a worker protection goal?
A.Collective bargaining
B.Encourage investment
C.Allow turnover
D.Reduce regulatory burden
In terms of GRI indicators, which of the following is an environmental performance
indicator?
A.Percentage of employees trained in the organization’s anticorruption policies
B.Voluntary donations to communities
C.Net revenues
D.Materials used by weight or volume
Identify the theory that adopts the belief that different cultures may create different
values and there is no universal standard by which to judge which values are superior.
A.Reciprocity
B.Ethical universalism
C.The theory of amorality
D.Ethical relativism
The ability of businesses to influence the laws of the society in which they operate is
called:
A.social power.
B.technological power.
C.environmental power.
D.legal power.
The ability of businesses to influence the values and habits of people in a society is
called:
A.economic power.
B.cultural power.
C.technological power.
D.legal power.
According to G. William Domhoff:
A.a new ‘superclass” eclipses the power of national elites.
B.the elite used government “as an umbrella under whose authority they do their work.”
C.the power elite has the power to shape the economic and political frameworks within
which other groups and classes must operate.
D.a ‘superclass” has emerged, operating across borders through networks of individuals
and organizations.
All companies with 15 or more employees fall under the jurisdiction of Title VII and
must report annually to the _____ the number of minorities and women in various job
categories.
A.Employment Development Department
B.Bureau of Labor Statistics
C.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
D.National Labor Relations Board
The _____ is a standard for environmental management created by the International
Organization for Standardization that allows companies to claim state-of-the-art
ecological responsibility.
A.ISO 12207
B.ISO 11940
C.ISO 14001
D.ISO 13485
When a company gives monetary gifts to society in order to advance social welfare, it is
called:
A.the triple bottom line.
B.a social audit.
C.philanthropy.
D.volunteering.
This is an agreement negotiated in 1991 among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and
Uruguay.
A.EU
B.NAFTA
C.Mercosur
D.ASEAN
Emissions of manufactured gases containing chlorine and bromine, when released into
the ____, persist and eventually rise into the ____, they are converted by chemical
reactions into more reactive gases that destroy ozone.
A.lower atmosphere; stratosphere
B.higher atmosphere; troposphere
C.lower atmosphere; mesosphere
D.higher atmosphere; mesosphere
Which of the following statements about the stakeholder model is true?
A.It reorders the priorities of management away from those in the market capitalism
model.
B.Exponents of this model agree on how to identify a stakeholder.
C.It makes a realistic assessment of power relationships between the corporation and
other entities.
D.It sets up clear guidelines to measure profit.
A universal measure that uses the warming potential of CO2as a reference for the
relative warming potential of the six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol is
the:
A.CO2equivalent.
B.carbon dioxide equivalent.
C.TRI.
D.EMS.
The _____ is the unit of human organization in which individuals and cultural groups
can influence their circumstances and future.
A.multi-ethnic state
B.citizen state
C.nation-state
D.pre-national state