Exam 2: Social Responsibility and Managerial Ethics

According to the social responsibility perspective,managers should ________.

Ethnocentricity tends to hurt managerial effectiveness,especially in culturally diverse contexts.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibit payments to ________.

The ________ approach to ethical decision making focuses on consequences of an action.

Moral intensity refers to the impact of ethics and morality on a group of people.

When managers can look outside the company at issues the company can influence,they are following the ________ approach to strategic corporate social responsibility.

Describe the characteristics of companies that are classified as reactors in terms of social responsibility.

From an efficiency perspective,when the manager of a business ________,the self-interests of the owner are best achieved by serving the interests of society.

________ is concerned with morality and standards of business conduct,especially among individuals.

Pixel Inc has established a system to settle employee grievances.According to this system,aggrieved employees must first approach their immediate supervisors with their problems.If the employee considers the supervisor's decision unsatisfactory,he or she may approach the next person in the chain of command.If the grievance still remains unresolved,the matter may be referred to voluntary arbitration.This system is indicative of ________.

Corporations react to the various pressures and constituencies connected to the topic of social responsibility in different ways.Defenders ________.

According to the ________ approach to ethical decision making,some things are just right or wrong,independent of their consequences.

A(n)________ is an individual or group that has an interest in and is affected by the actions of an organization.

As an employee of an international aid organization,Cynthia is often required to travel to countries where natural disasters have recently occurred.During a visit to a city destroyed by an earthquake,Cynthia learns that her organization has hired child laborers to help rebuild the ruined city.She quits the organization and brings this information to the notice of the public.Cynthia is a(n)________.

Within the context of the efficiency perspective of social responsibility,externalities involve ________.