Chapter 7

Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility gives awards for excellence in:

All of the above.

Companies see the need to build more coherent initiatives as they move into the:

Integrated stage.

Triple bottom line disclosure is primarily driven by:

Noneconomic drivers.

The major focus of ISO 14001 is to:

Support environmental management standards.

Managers responding to the needs of the local education system as a normal or routine aspect of its operations is an example of an organization in the:

Transforming stage.

Financial, social and environmental results are reported together in a firm's:

Triple bottom line report.

According to a survey conducted by The Economist in 2008, how many respondents say corporate citizenship can help increase their companies' profits?

74%.

A 2011 survey of business firms by KPMG found:

A and C, but not B.

Global corporate citizenship is more than espoused values, it requires:

Action.

Global audit social standards concentrate on:

All of the above

Good corporate citizens:

All of the above.

Once a company enters the innovative stage of corporate citizenship, it will:

Begin reporting its efforts to stakeholders.

Some companies have created a department of corporate citizenship to:

Centralize under common leadership wide-ranging corporate citizenship functions.

When a company decides to publicize information collected in a social audit, this is called:

Corporate social reporting.

The emerging trend in gathering audit information directly from workers using their mobile phones is called:

Crowd-sourcing.

BSR (formerly Business for Social Responsibility) helps its 300 member companies:

Develop sustainable business strategies.

There remain regional differences in the corporate citizenship challenges facing businesses due to:

Differences in attitudes, beliefs and culture.

The Ronald McDonald House charity, operated by McDonald's has been criticized for:

Diverting attention away from the company's contributions to the nation's obesity epidemic.

This inter-American organization (North and South America) was created to unite organizations focusing on corporate social responsibility from Canada to Chile.

Forum Empresa.

When a company puts its commitment to social and environmental responsibility into practice worldwide, not only locally or regionally it is called:

Global Corporate Citizenship

Which of the following is not a motivation for publishing a corporate social report?

Avoiding transparency.

According to Philip H. Mirvis' and Bradley K. Googins' model, how many stages are there of global corporate citizenship?

Five.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that each person:

Has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.

Which of the following organizations have developed standards to judge corporate performance?

International Organisation for Standards.

This Switzerland-based pharmaceutical firm was an early adopter of the Global Compact and used it to update its code of conduct.

Novartis

According to the scholar Simon Zadek six benefits of social audits include all of the following except.

Outperforming competitors financially in a businesses' industry.

A systematic evaluation of an organization's social, ethical, and environmental performance is called a(n):

Social audit.

Sanford Limited, a small fishing company in New Zealand, made the following commitment(s) in its first triple bottom line report released in 2007:

To maximize positive social outcomes and economic growth and prosperity.

The United Nations Global Compact is funded by:

Voluntary government and foundation contributions.