QUIZ 1,2,3

Which of the following companies is being the most socially responsible?

A company trying its best to operate in a way which will help local students get education and jobs.

The emergence of a public issue indicates that:

A gap may be developing between what stakeholders expect and what an organization is actually doing.

An emerging business model that attempts to strategically balance the interests of all stakeholders to solve social and environmental problems is called:

B Corporation.

Which of the following statements is true about corporate social responsibility?

Both of these answers are correct: Businesses should monitor and prevent social problems in advance of their becoming major issues; and corporations should be accountable for any actions that affect people, their communities, and the environment.

Companies demonstrate global corporate citizenship by:

Both of these answers are correct: Finding business opportunities that serve society and integrating concern for both financial and social performance.

Proponents against corporate social responsibility feel that public officials, not business people, should solve societal problems because:

Business people do not have the skill set to solve societal problems.

Failure to understand the beliefs and expectations of stakeholders:

Causes the performance-expectations gap to grow larger.

Some companies have created a department of corporate citizenship to:

Centralize under common leadership wide-ranging corporate citizenship functions.

The capability of corporations to influence government, the economy, and society, based on their organizational resources is called:

Corporate citizenship.

Over time, the nature of business's relationship with its stakeholders often:

Evolves through a series of stages.

The iron law of responsibility says that:

In the long run, those who do not use power responsibly will lose it.

Contemporary issue management:

Is an interactive, forward-thinking process.

The issue management process is a:

Systematic process companies use when responding to public issues that are of greatest importance to the business.

Stakeholder engagement is, at its core, a:

Relationship.

Which of the following examples does not show a company guided by enlightened self-interest?

A company breaking past records by maximizing quarterly profits.

When working well, the issue management process:

Continuously cycles back to the beginning and repeats.

Proactive companies are:

Much less likely to be blindsided by crises and negative surprises.

Stakeholder engagement is:

The process of ongoing relationship building between a business and its stakeholders.

An analysis of the stability or instability of a government is an example of scanning which environment?

Political.