Lussier, Human Resources Management 3e
SAGE Publishing, 2019
Discussion Questions
Chapter 15: Organizational Ethics, Sustainability, and Social
Responsibility
1. Several common ethical approaches, or guidelines, exist to help you make ethical choices including
the golden rule, the four-way test, and the stakeholders approach to ethics. Which of these approaches
have you found most useful when you have faced ethical dilemmas in the past?
3. Sustainability involves meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their needs. It is the process of accessing how to design products that will
take advantage of the current environmental situation and enhancing how well a company’s products
perform with renewable resources. Describe an organization that you believe is leading the way in
regard to sustainability, what could HR management do to further the sustainability efforts already
started at this organization?
4. Clearly, in today’s society, the question is not whether business should be socially responsible.
Instead, the question is at what level of CSR should the business operate? The levels of corporate social