Ch. 10 Multiple Choice

Which of the following business actions is considered to be unethical?

Misleading labeling

Preserving the environment should be a permanent part of doing business for which of the following reasons?

More lenders are examining the environmental liabilities of businesses seeking loans.

According to Fortune magazine, which of the following was among the most admired companies for social responsibility in 2009?

None of the above

All of the following business actions are considered to be unethical except:

Preventing environmental harm

Business ethics, _______, and sustainability issues are interrelated and impact all areas of the comprehensive strategic-management model.

Social responsibility

_______ are the individuals primarily responsible for ensuring that high ethical principles are espoused and practiced in an organization.

Strategists such as CEOs and business owners

_______ has 18 buildings in California alone powered only by solar energy.

Target

Which state generates the greatest number of megawatts of wind power?

Texas

Venture capital investments in clean technology companies totaled $8.4 billion in 2008, _______ from 2007.

Up 40%

_______ refers to policies that require employees to report any unethical violations they discover or see in the firm.

Whistle-blowing

A code of business ethics is

a document that provides behavioral guidelines that cover daily activities and decisions within an organization.

Bribery involves

bestowing a gift to influence the recipient's conduct.

Responsibility for encouraging ethical decision making and ensuring ethical behavior in a firm lies with

both a firm's strategists and its managers.

If a firm has a bad sustainability record this will

cause investors to closely scrutinize the firm.

A proactive environmental policy is likely to lead to

conservation of energy

More and more firms believe that ethics training and an ethics culture

create strategic advantage.

Bad ethics can _______ strategic plans.

derail even the best

Wal-Mart encourages its employees to adopt "Personal Sustainability Projects" like weightloss or smoking-cessation support groups, illustrating that

employee wellness can be a part of sustainability.

Firms should strive to engage in social activities that

have economic benefits.

The company Better Place

is building a network of 250,000 electric car recharging stations.

Simply having a code of ethics:

is insufficient to guarantee that employees behave in an ethical manner.

According to the text, the first social responsibility of any business is to

make enough profit to cover the costs of the future, because if this is not achieved then no other social responsibility can be met.

Firms can align ethical and strategic decision making by

monitoring departmental and corporate performance regarding ethical issues.

It has become _______, since uniform standards defining environmentally responsible company actions are rapidly being incorporated into our legal landscape.

more and more difficult for firms to make "green" claims when their actions are not substantive or even true

In an effort to manage ecological challenges, many companies are

moving environmental affairs from the staff side of the organization to the line side

Japan's prescription for dealing with problems associated with an aging society includes

reversing the old-fashioned trend of keeping women at home.

Japan is suffering from a decline in overall economical production

since worker productivity increases are not able to offset declines in number of workers.

General Electric plans to achieve $20 billion in sales by 2011 in eco-friendly technologies including all of the following except:

software that provides centralized control over power consumption.

Special natural environment issues include all of the following except:

spreading computer viruses.

The U.S. Justice Department and many other organizations worldwide are _______ bribery

stepping up their initiatives against and their prosecution of

Social policy can best be defined as

the responsibilities a firm has to employees, consumers, environmentalists, minorities, communities, shareholders, and other groups.

More than 2,000 scientists convened together in Copenhagen in March 2009 and reported to the world that global warming is

worse than expected.

When Siemens AG was fined $800 million for routinely offering bribes to win overseas contracts, the fine was _______ times larger than any previous bribery penalty.

20

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, _______ percent of all firms sampled had no restrictions on boss-subordinate love affairs at work.

5

A company that takes social responsibility/business ethics/sustainability very seriously, Walt Disney plans to cut carbon emissions from fuels by _______ percent by 2012.

50

A recent study reported that _______ percent of corporate recruiters said, "it is important to hire students with an awareness of social and environmental responsibility."

77

A document that discloses to shareholders information about a firm's labor practices, product sourcing, energy efficiency, environmental impact, and business ethics practices is known as

A sustainability report

Ethics training programs should contain which of the following?

All of the above

Managers and employees today must be careful not to ignore, conceal, or disregard a pollution problem or they could

All of the above

Sustainability refers to the extent that an organization's operations and actions _______ the natural environment.

All of the above

Which of the following companies ranks among those against whom some of the largest payouts for class-action legal fraud suits ever were judged?

Aol Time Warner

All of the following were among the most admired companies for social responsibility in 2009 according to Fortune magazine except:

Dillard's

Which of the following is not a way that companies can help create an ethical culture in their organization?

Discouraging whistle-blowing

What challenge facing all organizations requires managers to formulate strategies that preserve and conserve natural resources and control pollution?

Ecological

The percentage of persons age 65 or older exceeds 20 percent in Japan, Italy, and

Germany

It is _______ for a business to provide a sustainability report annually to the public.

Good business

The _______ is a network of the national standards institutes of 147 countries, one member per country.

ISO

_______ is a set of standards in fields such as environmental auditing, performance evaluation, and labeling, that is adopted by thousands of firms worldwide to certify to their constituencies that they are conducting business in an environmentally friendly manner.

ISO 14001

All of the following statements are true except:

ISO has legal authority to enforce their regulations' implementation

Unethical activities that plague online commerce include all of the following except:

Inappropriate gifts