Verified Test Bank Corporate Social Responsibility Ch.18

Chapter 18: Corporate social responsibility

Test Bank

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 18 Question 01

1) Business ____ is the study and evaluation of decision making within businesses through various moral concepts and judgements.

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 02

2) Sustainability is…? Please select all that apply.

a. Producing goods or services that have a long-term stewardship and maintenance of the environment.

b. Producing goods or services that are maintainable in the long term for the organization.

c. Producing goods or services that have good business ethics to allow the firm to keep operating legally.

d. Having exceptionally high ethical standards to increase profits.

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 03

3) Why does John Boatright argue that people, particularly recent graduates, should be taught business ethics? Please select all that apply.

a. To stop bad people acting unethically

b. Few people set out to act badly but they can gradually fall down a slippery slope to do more unethical acts

c. People can be pressured, particularly by middle management, to hit targets

d. Business ethics training can sensitize good people to what might be unethical decisions

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 04

4) Why should companies pay attention to business ethics and sustainability? Please select all that apply.

a. Unethical actions can cost individuals’ lives

b. Unethical acts can cause significant reputational damage to a firm

c. Ethical firms are often said to attract high quality candidates to work for them

d. Ethical firms are proven to earn significantly higher levels of profits in the long-term

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 05

5) In utilitarianism and other teleological ethical positions actions can only be judged by their ______

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 06

6) Deontological ethics are concerned with ______

a. whether an action is right, fair, and honest.

b. whether an action only produces good consequences.

c. about the consequences and the reasons behind the action.

d. whether an action produces good things for everyone but not the reasons behind the action.

Type: fill-in-blank

Title: Chapter 18 Question 07

7) Milton Friedman argues that there is only one social responsibility of a firm which is to increase its ______

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 09

9) What are some of the criticisms that have been made of philanthropy, particularly when it is done by highly wealthy people? Please select all that apply.

a. It is not the duty of rich people to give money to the poor

b. Philanthropy gives significantly more power to richer people to shape society than if the money was distributed through general taxation

c. Philanthropy has a long tradition of moralising, separating out the so-called deserving poor from the undeserving poor

d. Philanthropy cannot really work in practice because it puts all the burden onto wealthy people and they do not have enough money to solve societies’ problems

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Title: Chapter 18 Question 10

10) ‘The tragedy of the common’s thesis’ challenges the concept of ____

Type: fill-in-blank

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 12

12) Which of the following are stakeholders? Select all that apply

a. Government

b. Shareholders of rival company

c. Pressure groups

d. Employees

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 18 Question 13

13) According to research by Aras and Crowther, (2012) firms that have CSR are more likely to be profitable.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 14

14) Which of the following are part of triple bottom line? Select all that apply.

a. People

b. Societal

c. Economic

d. Social

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 Question 15

15) Why do critical perspectives such as Marxism and critical management studies argue that capitalism, as an economic system, is destructive? Please select all that apply.

a. Leads to inequality

b. Harms the environment

c. Capitalism only deals with capital and does not deal with people

d. Stops people achieving their true human potential