Exam 5: Socially Conscious Management

Which one of the following arguments on social responsibility states that there is no direct line of responsibility for social actions?

John is offered an attractive incentive to steal sensitive information about his company's wealthy investment customers. Which one of the following statements best reflects John's thoughts if he is at the preconventional level of moral development?

Which of the following ISO standards is related to environmental management?

In which one of the following stages of moral development do individuals live up to what is expected by people close to them and maintain order by fulfilling obligations to which they have agreed?

Carson wants to build an electricity generating plant that uses combustible fuels collected from the city's garbage, and located near the downtown government area so that the steam could be used for heating the government buildings after it has passed through the generating turbines. Carson is being mostly ________.

If Google asks 25 members of its executive team to spend a full day during their annual team-building retreat building a house in Las Vegas with Habitat for Humanity, the executives would be engaging in employee ________.

Which one of the following is true concerning the impact of organizational culture on ethical behavior?

Pressure to perform and meet goals has little impact on an employee's decision to behave ethically.

An organization is said to adopt the market approach to going green when it responds to the environmental demands made by its stakeholders.

A ________ is an individual or organization who seeks out opportunities to improve society by using practical, innovative, and sustainable approaches.

Employees who raise ethical concerns or issues in an organization are known as ________.

According to the classical view of social responsibility, management's only social responsibility is to maximize profits.

A student who never considers breaking into an instructor's office to steal an accounting exam didn't think twice about asking a friend who took the same course from the same instructor last semester what questions were on the exam. What does this example illustrate?

A ________ is a formal statement of an organization's primary values and the ethical rules it expects its employees to follow.

Managers who consider the impact of their organization on the natural environment are said to be practicing ________.

Under what approach is the organization driven to look for ways to respect and preserve the earth and its natural resources?

If your university was paying minimum wage when necessary and applying the minimum legal standards to its employees work environment, it would be said to have fulfilled its ________.

________ represent basic convictions about what is right and wrong.

The term "values" refers to basic convictions about what is right and wrong behavior.

________ is defined as a business firm's intention, beyond its legal and economic obligations, to do the right things and act in ways that are good for society.