Chapter 10 Quiz
A(n) ______ reveals how a firm's operations impact the natural environment. This document discloses to shareholders information about the firm's labor practices, product sourcing, energy efficiency, environmental impact, and business ethics practices.
sustainability report
In the corporate world, employees reporting any unethical violations they discover or see in the firm receive up to ______ percent of the proceeds of legal proceedings against firms for wrongdoing.
25
The ______ family of standards concerns the extent to which a firm minimizes harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities and continually monitors and improves its own environmental performance.
ISO 14000
_____ generates about 62 million tons of solid waste every year, and that amount is expected to increase fivefold by 2051. Currently only about 28 percent of the country's garbage is treated and processed.
India
As discussed in Chapter 10, what do the following people have in common: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, C. K. Louis, Mark Halperin, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, and Garrison Keillor?
They all were implicated in sexual harassment allegations.
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) governs ______ in the United States and has stepped up enforcement.
bribery
______ is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in discharge of a public or legal duty.
bribery
According to the ISO 14001 standard, a community or organization is required to put in place and implement a series of practices and procedures that, when taken together, result in a/an ______.
environmental management system (EMS)
What three retailers are discussed in the chapter as being the top 3 Green Power-Use retailers in 2017.
Kohl's Department Stores, Starbucks (company-owned café retail stores), IKEA
______ refers to employees reporting any unethical violations they discover or see in the firm.
Whistle-blowing
Who said, "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
Rev. Billy Graham
What university in the USA leads all universities in annual usage of green power?
University of Tennessee
A Wall Street Journal article recapped U.S. standards regarding boss-and-subordinate love affairs at work. Only ______ percent of all firms sampled had no restrictions on such relationships; ______ percent of firms have policies that prohibit relationships between a supervisor and a subordinate.
5; 80
Oceans cover more than ______ percent of the earth.
71
A seven-year study by Fred Kiel, author of Return on Character, followed 8,000 employees and 84 top executives of Fortune 500 companies; the study indicated that character-driven leaders deliver ______ times greater profitability results than self-focused leaders.
5
Which statement below is FALSE? A. Prior research suggests that being unethical is abnormal, rare, and aberrant behavior perpetrated by people who are abhorrent. B. Donald Palmer recently reported that misconduct is most often done by people who party weekly. C. Donald Palmer recently reported that wrongdoing is as prevalent as rightdoing. D. Donald Palmer recently reported that misconduct is a normal phenomenon.
Donald Palmer recently reported that misconduct is most often done by people who party weekly.
According to Chapter 10, which of the following actions is unethical?
Insider trading and overpricing
According to Chapter 10, a country with one of the lowest bribery rates is ______ and a country with one of the highest bribery rates is ______.
South Korea; India
What company is featured in Ethics Capsule 10 as being exemplary in the shoe business, aiming to put shoes on every child on the planet and donating a pair of shoes for every pair it sells?
TOMS Shoes, Inc.
Which statement below is FALSE? A. Workplace romance can be detrimental to workplace morale and productivity for a number of reasons. B. In some states, such as California, managers can be held personally liable for damages that arise from workplace romance. C. An organization probably should not strictly forbid workplace romance, because such a policy could be construed as an invasion of privacy, overbearing, or unnecessary. D. Some workplace romances actually improve work performance. E. Workplace romances actually decrease work performance, adding a dynamism and energy that translates into decreased morale, communication, creativity, and productivity.
Workplace romances actually decrease work performance, adding a dynamism and energy that translates into decreased morale, communication, creativity, and productivity.
A recent study by The Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) titled, "Does Business Ethics Pay?" concluded that companies that display a "clear commitment to ethical conduct" ______ outperform companies that do not display ethical conduct.
consistently
According to the International Standards Organization, the word _____ is defined a surrounding in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans, and their interrelations.
environment
For the first time ever in the United States, cars, trucks, planes, and trains have displaced _____ as the biggest USA polluter.
power plants
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) defines ______ broadly as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
sexual harassment
Green power is _________.
renewable, such as wind, solar, and water