Exam 2: Managers, Society, and Sustainability

What is sustainability? Why is building sustainable organizations important?

Tangarine, a detergent manufacturer, realizes that a malfunction of one of its automated machines has significantly altered the composition of the detergent. Continued exposure to this altered detergent can cause skin cancer in the long term. Tangarine is violating the obligation to ________.

________ emphasizes that managers should focus on building organizations that are sustainable in economic, environmental, and societal activities.

Managers can fulfill their social obligation towards consumers by ________.

The study of ethics in management can be approached from many different directions. A practical approach is to view ethics as catalyzing managers to ________.

Billy has been asking about the pros and cons of social responsibility actions in his new role as Plant Manager. In your role as Vice President of Production, when you meet with him today regarding the firm's new social responsibility initiative, you could best summarize the need for social responsibility activities in the following sentence: "Regardless of which argument or combination of arguments managers embrace, we generally should make a concerned effort to ________ perform social responsibility activities beyond those ________ required."

Which of the following areas does an organization focus on when it maintains the wellbeing and protection of the communities in which it does business?

In building a sustainable organization, management should strive to make the organization sustainable in three areas - ________.

How can organizations meet its social obligations? Defend and support your answer.

________ is a formal statement that acts as a guide for the ethics of how people within a particular organization should act and make decisions.

Many management theorists and practitioners claim that the immediate payoff of sustainability is usually ________.

Define the term "social audit." List the basic steps in conducting a social audit.

According to the concept of corporate social responsibility, a manager must strive to achieve societal as well as organizational goals.

Sam's Club, a discount retail division of Wal-Mart, specializes in the sale of products like jewelry, clothes, and food. The management at Sam's Club decided to increase sustainability by decreasing energy costs. One solution to decrease energy costs was a new milk jug to increase the shelf life of milk at stores, thereby reducing energy costs. This is an example of ________.

Behavior where the actions reflect virtues like honesty, fairness, and compassion is an example of the ________.

________ indicates that behavior can be considered ethical if it provides the most good for the greatest number of people.

Today's managers are said to need to be committed to building an organization's local community and environment while working to accomplish the firm's goals. Which of the following is this statement really saying is the role today's managers need to be involved in during their daily actions?

When Apple donates computers for educational purposes, the company is said to be working towards enhancing its ________ efforts.

Which of the following is the primary function of the Consumer Product Safety Commission?

Which of the following areas is an organization focusing on when it minimizes waste by not overproducing goods and generating a fair profit for stakeholders?