Deck 12: Managing Social Responsibility Ethically

Question 1

What do you understand by the term 'corporate greenwashing'?

Answer 1

An acceptable answer will identify greenwashing as a rhetorical device that organizations use to appear concerned with CSR issues.A good answer will explore the ways in which organizations can seek to become 'green' through compliance standards (ISO certifications etc. );while a superior answer will go a step beyond and explain how complying to externally validated standards,while good,is also voluntary.

Question 2

Triple bottom line reporting accounts for ______.

A)people,planet,peace
B)people,planet,profit
C)fortune,future,flexibility
D)profit,principles,people

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Corporate greening could involve ______.

A)green facilities that are designed to minimize energy waste and use,
B)a continuing program of educating employees and spreading green transportation
C)educating staff and learning about being green as widely as possible.
D)all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A code of conduct is a set of______.

A)practices that organizations adopt in order to ensure ethical behaviour
B)rules that organizations adopt in order to ensure ethical behaviour
C)rules that organizations adopt in order to ensure sustainability
D)rules that translates the law into a more meaningful and ethical organizational guideline

Question 5

A corporation's code of ethics are ______.

A)the informal requirements set forth by the organization that specifies desirable ethical behaviours
B)the documented,formal and legal expectations of ethical behaviours by and organization to its employees and wider stakeholders
C)a set of beliefs personally held by individuals
D)all of these

Question 6

When ethics are assimilated as a norm,they ______.

A)define a system of personal relations between organizational employees
B)define the organization's functions
C)are loosely socialized within the organization
D)define a system of relations between functions,behaviours and problem-solving actions

Question 7

Corporate social responsibility occurs when organizations ______.

A)use accounting standards,by considering the greater good of the widest possible community within which they exist
B)seek to meet or exceed legal and normatively mandated standards,by considering the greater good of the widest possible community within which they exist
C)engage in an open dialogue with their stakeholders and establish a code of conduct that guides their behaviour
D)all of these

Question 8

Corporate greening is defined as a process ______.

A)of introducing principles of Corporate Social Responsibility in as many facets of the business as it is possible
B)that involves trying to adopt green principles and practices in as many facets of the business as it is possible
C)of introducing Codes of Conduct in as many facets of the business as it is possible
D)all of these

Question 9

Ethics as practice focuses on how ______.

A)ethics affects business practice and especially the triple bottom line (people,planet,profits)
B)rules are translated into practices and how are they enacted in everyday organizational contexts
C)practical certain ethical rules are and how they can be implemented effectively
D)ethics affects business practice and especially the triple bottom line (people,planet,profits)and how practical certain ethical rules are and how they can be implemented effectively

Question 10

According to the critical approach to ethics,when profits are paramount?

A)an organization's ethics transform
B)an organization's ethics prosper
C)an organization's ethics suffer
D)an organization's ethics transform and ethics prosper

Question 11

The Ronald McDonald's house for sick children is a good example of ______.

A)strategic philanthropy
B)commitment to the triple bottom line (people,planet,profit)
C)ethics as marketing tool
D)both strategic philanthropy and ethics as marketing tool

Question 12

Usually business ethics is understood as ______.

A)reflecting on and recommending concepts of right and wrong behaviour in business practice
B)reflecting on morals and prescribing what ought to be
C)the science of values and their justification
D)the theory of making profits while acting ethically

Question 13

The circular economy is a perspective that focuses on ______.

A)reuse
B)recycling
C)remanufacturing
D)all of these

Question 14

What factors characterize a 'green learning' organization?

Question 15

Which are the two different schools of thought in the business ethics literature?

A)the normative and the sustainability school
B)the descriptive and the moral school
C)the positive and the normative school
D)the normative and descriptive school

Question 16

According to German sociologist Ulrich Beck,toxic chemicals are a component of ______.

A)the risk society
B)the high society
C)monster raving lunatic society
D)the ethical society

Question 17

In the most basic sense sustainability means ______.

A)to do things right
B)to do the right thing
C)to always act ethically
D)to ensure that resources are renewed