Exam 2: Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics

Corporations react to the various pressures and constituencies connected to the topic of social responsibility in different ways.Reactor firms focus on ________ profits.

Pixel Inc is planning to upgrade its technology infrastructure.However,this move is likely to render more than half of its workforce redundant.Which of the following statements is true in this scenario?

Corporations react to the various pressures and constituencies connected to the topic of social responsibility in different ways.________ firms make changes when they feel that pressure from constituencies is sufficient such that nonresponsiveness could have a negative economic impact on the firm.

The moral intensity of an issue rises and falls depending on how likely people think the consequences are.This is known as ________.

Having to make a choice between two competing but arguably valid options is known as an ethical dilemma.

When managers look at social issues in general terms of the extent to which they are problematic they are following the ________ approach to strategic corporate social responsibility.

Discuss the moral rights approach to ethical decision making.

Compare magnitude of consequences with probability of effect,from the perspective of moral intensity.

In the "outside-out" approach of the strategic corporate social responsibility perspective,managers can look outside the company at issues the company can influence.

________ is the extent to which consequences are focused on a few individuals or dispersed across many.

How can a company communicate ethical standards?

Employees are unlikely to conform to a corporate code of ethics unless other actions taken by the organization reinforce the code.

What is moral intensity? Identify the six components of moral intensity.

According to the universal approach to ethical decision making,managers must first determine whether a course of action can apply to all people in all situations,then ask themselves whether ________.

Corporations react to the various pressures and constituencies connected to the topic of social responsibility in different ways.Companies that are ________ tend to fight efforts that they see as resulting in greater restriction and regulation of their ability to maximize profits.

Which of the following statements is true regarding whistleblowing?

A major concern with the efficiency perspective is that corporations can impose indirect consequences that may not be completely understood or anticipated.In economic terms,such an unintended consequence is called a(n)________.

Corporations react to the various pressures and constituencies connected to the topic of social responsibility in different ways.________ tend to believe that they are obligated to a variety of stakeholders not to harm them independent of laws or pressures that restrict or regulate their actions.

According to the concept of distributive justice,all employees should receive equal rewards and punishments.

________ is a function of the interval between the time the action occurs and the onset of its consequences.