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Question 1 This, among many, provides explicit guides and resources detailing appropriate behavior as well as offering legal direction and parameters for both employees and employers.

Select one:

a. Title VII of the United States Civil Rights Acct of 1964

b. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

c. Occupational Safety and Health Administration

d. Portability of Health Coverage

Question 2 The program, “Bully Broads” is designed to help

Select one:

a. men understand the controlling nature of women.

b. women understand how their perception of what it takes to get ahead can be viewed negatively.

c. women understand the importance of behaving similar to that of their male counterparts.

d. men adjust to the idea of women having to act like bullies in a male-dominated society.

Question 3 According to the text, which among the following is often determined by the company’s mission, practice, board, or custom?

Select one:

a. The prioritization of stakeholders.

b. The generation of profits.

c. Analyzing relationship specifications.

d. Defining the ethical custom.

Question 4 In one view of CSR, both the law and _____ serve as constraints on business’s pursuits of profits.

Select one:

a. ethical traditions

b. ethical leadership

c. corporate culture

d. ethical custom

Question 5 According to the text, the presumption of which among the following factors leads to an entrenchment of the firm, rather than its enhancement?

Select one:

a. The decision-making skills of the board.

b. The ethical nature of the firm’s leaders.

c. The prioritization of the stakeholders.

d. Employee understanding of the mission.

Question 6 Which among the following approaches to health and safety at the workplace would be considered paternalistic in decision-making?

Select one:

a. Health and safety as government-regulated ethics.

b. Health and safety as ideals.

c. Health and safety as acceptable risk.

d. Health and safety as market controlled.

Question 7 Which among the following supports the theory that profits is a measure of optimal allocation of resources?

Select one:

a. Moral imagination.

b. “Walk the talk” principle of leadership.

c. Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.

d. Social contract model of CSR.

Question 8 All of the following are ways through which affirmative action can arise at the workplace except

Select one:

a. through legal ways.

b. through judicial affirmative action.

c. consultant based affirmative action plans.

d. voluntary affirmative action plans.

Question 9 The practice of caring for the ‘image’ of a firm is sometimes referred to as

Select one:

a. publicity subsistence.

b. image orientation.

c. façade creation.

d. reputation management.

Question 10 In the text, researchers answered help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers by submitting their resumes to ascertain that discrimination against

Select one:

a. names exists.

b. gender exists.

c. accent exists.

d. residential neighborhood exists.

Question 11 According to the text, Mectizan, a drug manufactured by Merck, is provided as an example to explain

Select one:

a. that a firm’s social responsibility includes doing voluntary good.

b. that a firm’s social responsibility includes not causing harm to others.

c. that a firm’s social responsibility signifies obedience to the law.

d. that a firm’s social responsibility entails the prevention of harm.

Question 12 The flipside of a diverse workplace is that it can potentially increase several areas of _____.

Select one:

a. technological concerns

b. values tension

c. gender discrimination

d. managerial lapses

Question 13 Since employers cannot be responsible for providing an ideally safe and healthy place, discussions about these factors revolve around

Select one:

a. the tangible risks faced by the employees.

b. the relative risks faced by the workers.

c. the relative cost of health coverage for the organization.

d. the optimum security against workplace risk chart.

Question 14 _____ can serve as proxies for success, to some extent, or at least would be unlikely to occur in a company known for ethical lapses.

Select one:

a. Achievable objectives

b. Quantifiable measurements

c. Strong leadership

d. Ethical codes of conduct

Question 15 According to the book, specifically, one other element (one being customer preference) impacts the bottom line. Identify it.

Select one:

a. Organizational mission

b. Employee preference

c. Ethical nature of the leaders

d. Supplier preference

Question 16 Which among the following methods of constraining a business’s activities is beyond dispute?

Select one:

a. The social responsibility of a firm to prevent harm when one is not the cause for it.

b. The social responsibility of a firm to not cause harm to others.

c. The social responsibility of a firm to obey the law.

d. The social responsibility of a firm to do good.

Question 17 Which among the following approaches to workplace safety and health requires the birth of a child with serious birth defects to ensure that the same circumstance does not repeat?

Select one:

a. Health and safety as ideals.

b. Health and safety as acceptable risk.

c. Health and safety as market controlled.

d. Health and safety as government-regulated ethics.

Question 18 In the government-regulated ethics approach to workplace health and safety, _____ can be applied to overcome market failures that result from the lack of information.

Select one:

a. experience

b. standards

c. ethics

d. creativity

Question 19 Although there are many justifications for ethics in business, the primary thrust of the discussion revolves around

Select one:

a. the publicity it generates.

b. consumer preferences.

c. the return on investment.

d. employee preferences.

Question 20 According to which among the following techniques, would OSHA be persuaded to aim for an optimal, and not, the highest feasible, level of safety?

Select one:

a. Risk assessment analysis

b. Cost utility analysis

c. Cost affectivity analysis

d. Cost benefit analysis

Question 21 It is estimated that by 2010, only twenty percent of the workforce will be _____ under the age of 45.

Select one:

a. black men

b. Caucasian women

c. Asian-American men

d. white men

Question 22 Corporate philanthropy is an example of

Select one:

a. a firm’s taking on the social responsibility of doing voluntary good.

b. a firm’s adherence to the social responsibility of not causing harm to others.

c. a firm complying with the social responsibility entailing from the law.

d. a firm’s taking on the social responsibility of preventing harm.

Question 23 The threat of compensation acts as an incentive for employers to maintain a reasonably safe and healthy workplace environment most in the situation where the approach to

Select one:

a. health and safety is as acceptable risk.

b. health and safety is as an ideal.

c. health and safety is government-regulated ethics.

d. health and safety is market controlled.

Question 24 Among which of the following would both law and ethics say that business should be held liable for violating its responsibilities?

Select one:

a. The social responsibility of a firm to prevent harm when one is not the cause for it.

b. The social responsibility of a firm to not cause harm to others.

c. The social responsibility of a firm to obey the law.

d. The social responsibility of a firm to do good.

Question 25 Which among the following has the closest connection to the utilitarian framework of ethics?

Select one:

a. Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.

b. “Walk the talk” principle of leadership.

c. Moral imagination.

d. Corporate citizenship model of CSR.

Question 26 This model presumes that corporations recognize the ultimate value to the organizations in engaging in CSR activities.

Select one:

a. Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.

b. Social contract model of CSR.

c. Individual sense model of CSR.

d. Corporate citizenship model of CSR.

Question 27 When it is claimed that people that ‘pay’ for wrongs are unfairly burdened and should not bear the responsibility for the acts of others, they are opposing to

Select one:

a. reverse discrimination.

b. judicial activity within organizations.

c. affirmative action.

d. legitimate power.

Question 28 Which among the following industries use cost-benefit analysis while treating health and safety as an instrumental value common?

Select one:

a. Financial industry

b. Insurance industry

c. Automotive industry

d. Marine industry

Question 29 According to the text, factions arguing for greater global production, that creates economic growth, and provides a positive impact on more stakeholders, including better working conditions, would likely support the existence of

Select one:

a. sweatshops.

b. organic farming.

c. cost-effectiveness.

d. cost-benefit analysis.

Question 30 In essence, talk about business’s _____ is to be concerned with society’s interests that restrict or bind business’s behavior.

Select one:

a. profit generation

b. decision-making

c. social responsibilities

d. ethical culture

Question 31 The enlightened self-interest model of CSR would be a valuable theory to introduce and apply to which among the following approaches to workplace safety and health?

Select one:

a. Health and safety as market controlled.

b. Health and safety as ideals.

c. Health and safety as acceptable risk.

d. Health and safety as government-regulated ethics.

Question 32 A firm builds a type of _____ when it creates a good image for itself.

Select one:

a. knowledge curve

b. trust bank

c. ingenuity source

d. safe loop

Question 33 Efforts at understanding _____ can serve both to educate and to encourage the benefits linked to diversity efforts.

Select one:

a. diversity

b. equality

c. multiculturalism

d. languages

Question 34 The European Commission has defined CSR as “a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily to contribute to a better society and _____.”

Select one:

a. better opportunities

b. equality of treatment

c. a cleaner environment

d. a freer market system

Question 35 This refers to a policy or a program which in essence, makes the wrongs of yesterday, right today.

Select one:

a. Affirmative action

b. First generation policy

c. Second generation quest

d. Reverse discrimination

Question 36 Stakeholder participation, independent verification, and transparency are some of the criteria to ensure that _____ actually serves as tools, rather than public relation gimmicks.

Select one:

a. organizational vision statement

b. good press

c. codes of conduct

d. employee preference

Question 37 A responsibility is based on an aspect of some relationship, and is empty of content until

Select one:

a. that relationship is nurtured.

b. that relationship is described and specified.

c. it is realized in financial terms.

d. the subjects involved in the relationship are ethically sound.

Question 38 Which among the following can be misunderstood to mean that ethical responsibility is not necessary from a corporation’s perspective?

Select one:

a. Enlightened self-interest model of CSR.

b. “Walk the talk” principle of leadership.

c. Social contract model of CSR.

d. Corporate citizenship model of CSR.

Question 39 Among which of the following scenarios is it vital to be aware of the various implications associated with refusing to hire persons based on any ‘bad feelings’ about them?

Select one:

a. In a start-up organization.

b. In an organization known for ethical responsibility.

c. In a campus-recruitment drive.

d. In a culturally diverse organization.

Question 40Identify the distinguishing feature between cost-benefit analysis, and cost-effectiveness.

Select one:

a. Cost-effectiveness is a longer procedure to implement.

b. Cost-effectiveness uses ethical criteria before setting the standards.

c. Cost-benefit analysis uses economic criteria in setting the standards.

d. Cost-effectiveness uses economic criteria before setting the standards.