Question 1 This, among many, provides explicit guides and
resources detailing appropriate behavior as well as offering legal direction
and parameters for both employees and employers.
Select one:
a. Title VII of the
United States Civil Rights Acct of 1964
b. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
c. Occupational
Safety and Health Administration
d. Portability of
Health Coverage
Question 2 The program, “Bully Broads” is designed
to help
Select one:
a. men understand the
controlling nature of women.
b. women understand
how their perception of what it takes to get ahead can be viewed
negatively.
c. women understand
the importance of behaving similar to that of their male counterparts.
d. men adjust to the
idea of women having to act like bullies in a male-dominated society.
Question 3 According to the text, which among the following
is often determined by the company’s mission, practice, board, or custom?
Select one:
a. The prioritization
of stakeholders.
b. The generation of
profits.
c. Analyzing
relationship specifications.
d. Defining the
ethical custom.
Question 4 In one view of CSR, both the law and _____ serve
as constraints on business’s pursuits of profits.
Select one:
a. ethical traditions
b. ethical leadership
c. corporate culture
d. ethical
custom
Question 5 According to the text, the presumption of which
among the following factors leads to an entrenchment of the firm, rather than
its enhancement?
Select one:
a. The
decision-making skills of the board.
b. The ethical nature
of the firm’s leaders.
c. The prioritization
of the stakeholders.
d. Employee
understanding of the mission.
Question 6 Which among the following approaches to health
and safety at the workplace would be considered paternalistic in
decision-making?
Select one:
a. Health and safety
as government-regulated ethics.
b. Health and safety
as ideals.
c. Health and safety
as acceptable risk.
d. Health and safety
as market controlled.
Question 7 Which among the following supports the theory
that profits is a measure of optimal allocation of resources?
Select one:
a. Moral imagination.
b. “Walk the
talk” principle of leadership.
c. Enlightened
self-interest model of CSR.
d. Social contract
model of CSR.
Question 8 All of the following are ways through which
affirmative action can arise at the workplace except
Select one:
a. through legal
ways.
b. through judicial
affirmative action.
c. consultant based
affirmative action plans.
d. voluntary
affirmative action plans.
Question 9 The practice of caring for the ‘image’ of a firm
is sometimes referred to as
Select one:
a. publicity
subsistence.
b. image orientation.
c. façade creation.
d. reputation
management.
Question 10 In the text, researchers answered help-wanted
ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers by submitting their resumes to ascertain
that discrimination against
Select one:
a. names exists.
b. gender exists.
c. accent exists.
d. residential
neighborhood exists.
Question 11 According to the text, Mectizan, a drug
manufactured by Merck, is provided as an example to explain
Select one:
a. that a firm’s
social responsibility includes doing voluntary good.
b. that a firm’s
social responsibility includes not causing harm to others.
c. that a firm’s
social responsibility signifies obedience to the law.
d. that a firm’s
social responsibility entails the prevention of harm.
Question 12 The flipside of a diverse workplace is that it
can potentially increase several areas of _____.
Select one:
a. technological
concerns
b. values
tension
c. gender
discrimination
d. managerial lapses
Question 13 Since employers cannot be responsible for
providing an ideally safe and healthy place, discussions about these factors
revolve around
Select one:
a. the tangible risks
faced by the employees.
b. the relative risks
faced by the workers.
c. the relative cost
of health coverage for the organization.
d. the optimum
security against workplace risk chart.
Question 14 _____ can serve as proxies for success, to some
extent, or at least would be unlikely to occur in a company known for ethical
lapses.
Select one:
a. Achievable
objectives
b. Quantifiable
measurements
c. Strong leadership
d. Ethical codes of
conduct
Question 15 According to the book, specifically, one other
element (one being customer preference) impacts the bottom line. Identify it.
Select one:
a. Organizational
mission
b. Employee
preference
c. Ethical nature of
the leaders
d. Supplier
preference
Question 16 Which among the following methods of
constraining a business’s activities is beyond dispute?
Select one:
a. The social
responsibility of a firm to prevent harm when one is not the cause for it.
b. The social
responsibility of a firm to not cause harm to others.
c. The social
responsibility of a firm to obey the law.
d. The social
responsibility of a firm to do good.
Question 17 Which among the following approaches to
workplace safety and health requires the birth of a child with serious birth
defects to ensure that the same circumstance does not repeat?
Select one:
a. Health and safety
as ideals.
b. Health and safety
as acceptable risk.
c. Health and safety
as market controlled.
d. Health and safety
as government-regulated ethics.
Question 18 In the government-regulated ethics approach to
workplace health and safety, _____ can be applied to overcome market failures
that result from the lack of information.
Select one:
a. experience
b. standards
c. ethics
d. creativity
Question 19 Although there are many justifications for
ethics in business, the primary thrust of the discussion revolves around
Select one:
a. the publicity it
generates.
b. consumer
preferences.
c. the return on
investment.
d. employee
preferences.
Question 20 According to which among the following
techniques, would OSHA be persuaded to aim for an optimal, and not, the highest
feasible, level of safety?
Select one:
a. Risk assessment
analysis
b. Cost utility
analysis
c. Cost affectivity
analysis
d. Cost benefit
analysis
Question 21 It is estimated that by 2010, only twenty
percent of the workforce will be _____ under the age of 45.
Select one:
a. black men
b. Caucasian women
c. Asian-American men
d. white men
Question 22 Corporate philanthropy is an example of
Select one:
a. a firm’s taking on
the social responsibility of doing voluntary good.
b. a firm’s adherence
to the social responsibility of not causing harm to others.
c. a firm complying
with the social responsibility entailing from the law.
d. a firm’s taking on
the social responsibility of preventing harm.
Question 23 The threat of compensation acts as an incentive
for employers to maintain a reasonably safe and healthy workplace environment
most in the situation where the approach to
Select one:
a. health and safety
is as acceptable risk.
b. health and safety
is as an ideal.
c. health and safety
is government-regulated ethics.
d. health and safety
is market controlled.
Question 24 Among which of the following would both law and
ethics say that business should be held liable for violating its
responsibilities?
Select one:
a. The social
responsibility of a firm to prevent harm when one is not the cause for it.
b. The social
responsibility of a firm to not cause harm to others.
c. The social
responsibility of a firm to obey the law.
d. The social
responsibility of a firm to do good.
Question 25 Which among the following has the closest
connection to the utilitarian framework of ethics?
Select one:
a. Enlightened
self-interest model of CSR.
b. “Walk the
talk” principle of leadership.
c. Moral imagination.
d. Corporate
citizenship model of CSR.
Question 26 This model presumes that corporations recognize
the ultimate value to the organizations in engaging in CSR activities.
Select one:
a. Enlightened
self-interest model of CSR.
b. Social contract
model of CSR.
c. Individual sense
model of CSR.
d. Corporate
citizenship model of CSR.
Question 27 When it is claimed that people that ‘pay’ for
wrongs are unfairly burdened and should not bear the responsibility for the
acts of others, they are opposing to
Select one:
a. reverse
discrimination.
b. judicial activity
within organizations.
c. affirmative
action.
d. legitimate power.
Question 28 Which among the following industries use
cost-benefit analysis while treating health and safety as an instrumental value
common?
Select one:
a. Financial industry
b. Insurance
industry
c. Automotive
industry
d. Marine industry
Question 29 According to the text, factions arguing for
greater global production, that creates economic growth, and provides a
positive impact on more stakeholders, including better working conditions,
would likely support the existence of
Select one:
a. sweatshops.
b. organic farming.
c.
cost-effectiveness.
d. cost-benefit
analysis.
Question 30 In essence, talk about business’s _____ is to be
concerned with society’s interests that restrict or bind business’s behavior.
Select one:
a. profit generation
b. decision-making
c. social responsibilities
d. ethical culture
Question 31 The enlightened self-interest model of CSR would
be a valuable theory to introduce and apply to which among the following
approaches to workplace safety and health?
Select one:
a. Health and safety
as market controlled.
b. Health and safety
as ideals.
c. Health and safety
as acceptable risk.
d. Health and safety
as government-regulated ethics.
Question 32 A firm builds a type of _____ when it creates a
good image for itself.
Select one:
a. knowledge curve
b. trust bank
c. ingenuity source
d. safe loop
Question 33 Efforts at understanding _____ can serve both to
educate and to encourage the benefits linked to diversity efforts.
Select one:
a. diversity
b. equality
c.
multiculturalism
d. languages
Question 34 The European Commission has defined CSR as
“a concept whereby companies decide voluntarily to contribute to a better
society and _____.”
Select one:
a. better
opportunities
b. equality of
treatment
c. a cleaner
environment
d. a freer market
system
Question 35 This refers to a policy or a program which in
essence, makes the wrongs of yesterday, right today.
Select one:
a. Affirmative
action
b. First generation
policy
c. Second generation
quest
d. Reverse
discrimination
Question 36 Stakeholder participation, independent
verification, and transparency are some of the criteria to ensure that _____
actually serves as tools, rather than public relation gimmicks.
Select one:
a. organizational
vision statement
b. good press
c. codes of
conduct
d. employee
preference
Question 37 A responsibility is based on an aspect of some
relationship, and is empty of content until
Select one:
a. that relationship
is nurtured.
b. that relationship
is described and specified.
c. it is realized in
financial terms.
d. the subjects
involved in the relationship are ethically sound.
Question 38 Which among the following can be misunderstood
to mean that ethical responsibility is not necessary from a corporation’s
perspective?
Select one:
a. Enlightened
self-interest model of CSR.
b. “Walk the talk”
principle of leadership.
c. Social contract
model of CSR.
d. Corporate
citizenship model of CSR.
Question 39 Among which of the following scenarios is it
vital to be aware of the various implications associated with refusing to hire
persons based on any ‘bad feelings’ about them?
Select one:
a. In a start-up
organization.
b. In an organization
known for ethical responsibility.
c. In a
campus-recruitment drive.
d. In a culturally
diverse organization.
Question 40Identify the distinguishing feature between
cost-benefit analysis, and cost-effectiveness.
Select one:
a. Cost-effectiveness
is a longer procedure to implement.
b. Cost-effectiveness
uses ethical criteria before setting the standards.
c. Cost-benefit
analysis uses economic criteria in setting the standards.
d. Cost-effectiveness
uses economic criteria before setting the standards.
