Exam 4: Business Ethics and Social Responsibility: Doing Well by Doing Good

Lovine, a women-centric magazine, interviewed a victim of domestic violence. Although the magazine assured the victim that her name would not be mentioned in the article, it later published the article with the victim's real name. This scenario exemplifies a(n) _____.

In the context of monitoring ethics and social responsibility, which of the following is the starting point of a social audit?

Fritzman Inc., a market research company, stocks its office pantry with an array of organic drinks and snacks to promote healthy eating habits among its employees. It also provides all its employees a free membership to a local gym. These gestures are Fritzman Inc.'s idea of _____.

Heleus Oil & Gas Company routinely performs emission tests to keep a check on the emissions produced by its corporate operations and find new ways to reduce them significantly. In this scenario, Heleus Oil & Gas Company is tracking its:

Quinbeck Inc., a computer manufacturing company, annually donates 6% of its total profits to an orphanage. The company also provides free personal computers to children to promote learning among them. Given this information, Quinbeck Inc. most likely engages in _____.

Yanmei, an employee at a news agency, learns that the reason her colleague was asked not to pursue a news story further was because the editor of the newspaper was bribed by the concerned party to suppress the matter. Yanmei reveals this information to the chief editor and her colleagues and also reports it to the media. In this scenario, Yanmei is a _____.

An ethical dilemma involves clear misconduct at the workplace.

Corporate etiquette is the obligation of a business to contribute to society.

In the context of ethical choices, research results from the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) illustrate that:

A chocolate manufacturing company promoted a high-calorie product without providing complete information about the risks involved in its consumption. In the context of business behavior, the company's business conduct was:

Krempe Foods, a fast-food chain in Dallas, gives paramount importance to consumer feedback and has a well-established consumer feedback system. Given this information, it can be said that Krempe Foods supports _____.

Spacein, a hard drive manufacturer, is accused of deliberately creating flaws in its product design. News reports hint that the company has been doing this for years to reduce the time between consumer repurchases. In the context of social responsibility, Spacein has been accused of _____.

Ethics refer to:

Flickczar, a film production company in the United States, sells the distribution rights of a film to its distributors in underserved areas at rock-bottom prices, while it sells the rights of the same film to distributors in other areas at normal prices. In the context of business behavior, Flickczar's business practice is _____.

Alfred, a human resource manager at an IT firm, reasons, "Although everyone should be given an equal opportunity, but for once it is fine to give my friend the first shot at the opening in my company because I know he really needs the job." In this context, which of the following statements is most likely true of Alfred?

In the context of a socially responsible organization, which of the following statements is true of consumerism?

Antonsen Inc., an accounting firm in Texas, follows certain guidelines while providing consulting services to a firm. One such guideline is to limit the services it provides to the firms it audits. The CEO of Antonsen Inc. is also required to certify the validity of the company's financial statements. In this scenario, Antonsen Inc. most likely abides by the requirements of the _____.

Trotin Langdon Corp., a leading car dealer, operates in many countries. The company has a clearly written mandate for all its contractors abroad. According to this, all contractors must ensure that standardized safety measures are implemented in their factories and workers are made to work only for nine hours a day. In this scenario, Trotin Langdon Corp. has set _____ for its vendors.

Consumerism is a widely accepted social movement. Which of the following can be considered a consumer's right?

Transparency International, a leading anticorruption organization, published its yearly index of "perceived corruption" across 168 countries in 2015. Its findings showed that: