Exam 6: Managing Social Responsibility and Ethics

The primary debate about ethics training programs is whether ________.

In the United States a company that meets, but does not exceed, federal pollution control standards and does not discriminate in hiring, promotion, and pay is generally meeting its ________.

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

To encourage employees to report ethical concerns, managers must make sure the reporting employee knows the outcome of any investigation, including the punishment meted out to the perpetrator.

Which one of the following arguments on social responsibility states that a business is socially responsible only when it pursues its economic interests?

People with an internal locus of control believe that what happens to them is due to luck or chance.

Years ago McDonald's switched from Styrofoam boxes for its large sandwiches to corrugated boxes made partially from recycled materials because of concerns that Styrofoam took too long to decompose in landfills. In this situation, McDonald's was ________

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 ________.

________ is a document created by the United Nations outlining principles for doing business globally in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anticorruption.

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, whistle-blowers in the United States who report suspected corporate violations of laws now have protection from reprisals and retaliation.

The aspect that differentiates social responsibility from other similar concepts is that it adds a(n) ________.

Upper management is pushing hard to increase earnings per share. If Moe yields to this pressure despite misgivings about the use of a non-certified material in the production of climbing equipment, he will be demonstrating ________.

Identify and describe the three levels and six stages of moral development.

Baskins wants to build a nuclear plant because this will not add to his city's already serious pollution problem, while taking care of its electricity requirements. Baskins is following which of the social responsibility views?

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

The ________ view is that management's social responsibility goes beyond making profits to include protecting and improving society's welfare.

At the principled level of moral development, an individual values the rights of others and upholds absolute values and rights regardless of the majority's opinion.

The phrase "My word is my bond" is likely to be spoken by someone at the ________ stage of moral development.

When employees are evaluated only on outcomes, they may be pressured to do whatever is necessary to look good on the outcomes, and not be concerned with how they got those results.

Compare and contrast the ideas of social obligation, social responsiveness, and social responsibility.