Discuss Leadership & Management

 

Question Score: 1 of 1 pt       Test Score: 55% (11 of 20 pts)
The Bhopal disaster pointed to the need for what?
(a) Economic sustainability
(b) Social sustainability
(c) Environmental sustainability
(d) Human rights laws
(e) Institutional framework

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Bryce is a vice president of a mid-sized technology company. He is in charge of many annual drives to foster good will among the company’s neighbors and outlying neighborhoods. Bryce is in charge of _____.
(a) Managing the social responsibility program
(b) Writing the firm’s policy statement
(c) Conducting the social audit
(d) Organizing collusive acts
(e) Convincing investors to participate in  company  decisions

Question Score: 1 of 1 pt       Test Score: 55% (11 of 20 pts)
Which of the following options best defines “social reasonability”?

(a) Social responsibility is a word associated with practices that support the future, as well as the present.
(b) Social responsibility is “an economy’s capacity to regularly produce outcomes consistent with long-term economic development”.
(c) Social responsibility is the phrase used to describe the role businesses, institutions, and people can have in creating and maintaining the health and well-being of communities
(d) Social responsibility means preservation of environmental resources and biodiversity, creation of sustainable access to safe drinking  water, and enhancement  of quality of life among the most impoverished
(e) Social responsibility refers to improvement of daily life for the greatest number of people through improving fair income distribution

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In connection with corporate social responsibility,____________ is a term associated with practices that support the future, as well as the present.

(a) Social responsibility
(b) Sustainability
(c) Healing
(d)  foresight
(e) Empathy

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Jasper wants his business to be socially responsible, but he is afraid the cost will be too much for him and for his employees. Which of the following is probably the best way to convince Jasper that he is worrying needlessly?

(a) Researching popular attitudes toward social responsibility
(b) Finding examples of the harm that lack of social responsibility can do
(c) Convincing his stakeholders
(d) Recommending the defensive approach
(e) Presenting the example of the Johnson & Johnson company

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Which of the following questions describes the point at issue between Mike and Joel?
(a) Did the company secure higher profits after implementing the proactive approach to social responsibility?
(b) Should companies ever invest resources into programs aimed at addressing social responsibility?
(c) Was the company doing well before implementing proactive social responsibility programs?
(d) Can the proactive approach to social responsibility be credited for the company’s increased profits?
(e)    Should there be laws to encourage or require companies to behave in socially responsible ways?

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Estelle makes sure that her department does not excess the energy quota that the corporate officers have set. She listens carefully to employee’s work problems and recently got permission to sponsor one of her more talented workers in business management courses. Which of the following best describes what Estelle is practicing?
(a) Sustainable development
(b) Commercial acumen
(c) Community service
(d) Social responsibility
(e) Servant leadership

Question Score: 1 of 1 pt       Test Score: 55% (11 of 20 pts)
Lydia’s textile business has finally taken off and is making a large profit. Now she would like to concentrate on social responsibility. Which of the following would be the best course of action for Lydia?
(a) Write a company credo
(b) Sponsoring a charitable foundation
(c) Reduce her workers’ hours
(d) Reduce her company’s energy use to less than that prescribed by law
(e) Adopt socialism

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The business partners of a large American restaurant chain sponsored a trip for employee volunteers to take food the victims of a natural disaster in the Caribbean. What are partner encouraging?
(a) Adherence to the company credo
(b) World peach
(c) Long-term orientation
(d) Global citizenship
(e) The accommodative approach

 

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Which of the following statements is false?
(a) Impoverished communities in high-risk areas are predicated to be most vulnerable overall.
(b) Fewer deaths and injuries due to exposure to extreme cold are expected
(c) Global warming may trigger changes in water quality that will likely have an adverse effect on many freshwater species and their ecosystems.
(d) Many experts predict that inadequate education, health care, public health programs, and economic development may lead to health crises
(e) Overall food production is predicated to rise when temperate increases beyond 1 to 3 C

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In what way does Novica support social sustainability?
(a) They encourage artistic and economic growth in developing nations
(b) They founded the fair-trade movement
(c) They sponsor worker education programs
(d) They strive to wipe out child slavery
(e) They promote a safe, healthy workplace

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At what part of environmental sustainability was the “Cash for Clunkers” program aimed?
(a) Pure water
(b) Clean air
(c) Biodiversity
(d) Waste management
(e) Green jobs