The “Big Data” revolution has transformed how many managers get their information. Which of the following forces accounts for this change?
Political
Legal
Social
Economic
Genysis is considering a move to an area that is prone to wildfires. Therefore this company is planning to build the facility out of flame retardant materials. This is an example of an organization reacting to risk in which of the following?
Economic environment
Sociocultural environment
Natural environment
Technological environment
Sambika is a country with hardly any modern roads. Suncast Inc. believes there is a huge market for their product in Sambika, but they cannot figure out a way to deliver the product throughout the country because the roads are so poor. Suncast Inc. decides to avoid doing business in Sambika. This is an example of how the __________ environment can have huge effects on business decisions.
Social
Climate
Economic
Legal-Political
The CEO of Yahoo received a very negative response from the public when she made it more difficult for her employees to work from home. They were angry that, even though she was an expectant mother, she seemed to be insensitive to Yahoo families by not allowing them to have flexibility in their work; making it more difficult for them to accommodate their busy home lives. Not long after, Yahoo admitted it made a mistake and would go back to allowing many of their employees to have flexible work arrangements. This is an example of how ___________ forces can have a huge impact on organizations.
Economic
Political
Climate
Social
TIME, a large cable provider, has recently started to be very concerned about customer service. The reason for this is that there are some very good competitors that are now stealing their business. Therefore, TIME has recognized how important it is to have a strong customer service focus to remain competitive and is now stressing this aspect of their business. Which aspect of the environment is shaping TIME‘s new initiative?
Internal Environment
General Environment
Task Environment
Labor Force
The Dissent Channel is used by the State Department. This is a formal way for employees of the state department to escalate ethical concerns they have about how the department is operating and/or about other employee behavior. This is an example of which of the following?
Ethical Hierarchy
Code of Ethics
Ethical Structure
Discretionary Responsibilty
Which of these employee behaviors is consistent with a post conventional level of personal moral development?
Act in own interest
Empowered employees, full participation
Task accomplishment
Work group collaboration
Roe works in the call center for a credit card company. Her job is to call the adult children of elderly people that have recently died. She tries to get the children to pay the credit card company the balance that their parent left on the credit card. In reality, the children are not legally responsible for their parent’s debt. But it is Roe’s job to try to persuade the children to pay, by implying that it is their legal responsibility. Roe feels this is wrong, but her boss says that if she does not convince some of the adult children to pay their parent’s credit card debit, she will be fired. What type of ethical dilemma does Roe have?
Practical
Unethical Request From Authority
Distributive Fairness
Procedural Justice
Soon after the a flood, builders offered to rebuild the houses of some of the affected South Carolina residents, free of charge. This demonstrates:
Economic Responsibility
Discretionary Responsibility
Ethical Responsibility
Legal Responsibility
Martin Shkreli is currently one of the most hated men in America. He is the individual that bought an essential Aids drug that was under $15 a pill and raised the price of that same pill to $750—making it difficult for many to afford life-saving medicine. Shkreli’s actions are not illegal though, but instead fall within the domain of __________.
evil
politics
ethics
economics
