Corporate Social Responsibility
Final Exam
Course Introduction
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) examines the roles, obligations, and ethical responsibilities of businesses within society. This course explores how corporations can operate in ways that enhance societal well-being, address environmental concerns, and balance stakeholder interests while achieving business objectives. Students will analyze theories and practices related to CSR, evaluate real-world case studies, and assess the strategic integration of social, environmental, and ethical considerations into core business operations. The course emphasizes the importance of transparency, sustainability, and long-term value creation in fostering positive impacts for communities, employees, consumers, and the broader world.
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Moral Issues in Business 12th Edition by
William H. Shaw
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Morality
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Q1) The famous experiments by social psychologist Solomon Asch show
A)the truth of utilitarianism.
B)the power of peer pressure has been greatly exaggerated.
C)business organizations put more pressure on individual integrity than do other kinds of organization.
D)even temporary groups can pressure people to conform.
Answer: D
Q2) Moral standards concern behavior that can be of serious consequence to human welfare.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) "Etiquette" designates a special realm of morality.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) If your conduct is legal,it will also be moral.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Normative Theories of Ethics
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Q1) W.D.Ross denied that we have immediate,intuitive knowledge of the basic prima facie obligations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Imagine a shopkeeper who is honest because being honest is good for business.When the shopkeeper refrains from cheating a customer,Kant would say this action
A)was wrong because its motive was impure.
B)was in accordance with duty,but not done from duty.
C)displayed a high level of moral worth.
D)shows that he was following the categorical imperative.
Answer: B
Q3) Immanuel Kant believed that prostitution was immoral because,by selling their sexual services,prostitutes allow themselves to be treated as only a means to an end.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Justice and Economic Distribution
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Q1) According to Locke,
A)individuals are morally entitled to take other people's property.
B)property is a moral right.
C)individuals are not morally entitled to the products of their labor.
D)property acquisition is a duty.
Answer: B
Q2) In association with labor and capital,Mill had contrasting views of A)freedom of speech.
B)farmers' markets profit.
C)welfare.
D)profit sharing.
Answer: D
Q3) Libertarians would find it immoral and unjust to coerce people to give food or money to the starving.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Nature of Capitalism
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Q1) How many Americans believe that "if you work hard enough,you'll make it?"
A)One out of two.
B)One out of three.
C)One out of four.
D)One out of five.
Q2) What reason is there for thinking that American manufacturing is declining?
Q3) The U.S.trade deficit has shrunk significantly in recent decades.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What does it mean to say that American companies are too focused on the short term?
Q5) Outsourcing is a practice where companies buy parts or whole products from other producers,both at home and abroad.
A)True
B)False
Q6) According to Adam Smith,the division of labor decreases economic activity.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Why do some critics of competition believe that it isn't all that it's cracked up to be?
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Chapter 5: Corporations
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Q1) According to Kenneth Arrow,trust and confidence are highly overrated in business.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Citizens United v.Federal Elections Commission,the U.S.Supreme Court
A)defined the free-speech rights of corporations for the first time.
B)defended the first Amendment right of corporations to spend money to support political candidates they favor.
C)said that banking procedures are to be regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
D)said that states should be permitted to distinguish between the rights of individuals and the rights of corporations.
Q3) The idea that corporations will impose their values on us supports one of the arguments for the narrow view of corporate social responsibility.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the ethical challenges that Yahoo faces in the China market.
Q5) Briefly sketch the evolution of corporations.
Q6) Briefly explain Milton Friedman's view of social responsibility.
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Chapter 6: Consumers
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Q1) Statistics indicate that the faith consumers place in manufacturers is often misplaced.
A)True
B)False
Q2) People generally speak of two kinds of warranties.What are these two kinds of warranties?
A)express and implied
B)positive and negative
C)limited and unlimited
D)legal and moral
Q3) The FTC now follows the reasonable-person standard in matters of advertising,sales and marketing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Give an example of manipulative pricing.
Q5) Subliminal advertising is advertising that supposedly communicates at a level beneath our conscious awareness.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Give an example of deceptive ambiguity in advertising.
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Chapter 7: The Environment
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Q1) According to William F.Baxter,we ought to respect the "balance of nature" and "preserve the environment" even if doing so brings no benefit to human beings.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When it comes to the protecting animal interests,the United States is far ahead of Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the anthropocentric (or human-oriented) ethic of Baxter and others,
A)environmental preservation is inherently valuable.
B)the Grand Canyon is valuable only because people care about it.
C)we have a strong,almost absolute obligation to preserve species from extinction.
D)future people have no interests that we need to respect now.
E) nature has value in and of itself,apart from human beings.
Q4) Is it appropriate to have a "valley of death" as described in Case 7.2? If you worked for one of the factories how would you justify the fumes? If you take an environmental view,how would confront the problem?
Q5) What's an "externality"? Give an environmental example of an externality.
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Chapter 8: The Workplace 1: Basic Issues
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Q1) To be successful any test used by a corporation must be A)sound.
B)valid.
C)created outside the corporation using the test.
D)one that can be used by any organization for any position.
Q2) Explain these concepts: seniority,inbreeding,and nepotism.
Q3) When most people fire another employee,they do it with great joy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A corporate campaign occurs when an organized body of workers withholds its labor to force an employer to comply with its demands.
A)True
B)False
Q5) From the beginning,unions have been driven by an attempt to protect workers from abuses of power at the hands of employers.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Should legislation be passed to require that some or all employees be paid a living wage? Justify your answer.
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Chapter 9: The Workplace 2: Todays Challenges
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Q1) A fact about job satisfaction is
A)longevity does not correlate with job satisfaction.
B)the U.S.leads the world in the provision of childcare.
C)a lack of job satisfaction can create mental health problems.
D)worker participation and improved QWL always boost productivity.
Q2) Any drug-testing program,assuming it is warranted,must be careful to respect the dignity and rights of the persons to be tested.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Businesses often claim polygraphs are a fast and economical way to verify the information provided by a job applicant.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Q5) If a polygraph test is 95 percent accurate,there are unlikely to be any "false positives."
A)True
B)False
Q6) Do workplace accidents "just happen"?
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Chapter 10: Moral Choices Facing Employees
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Q1) The Supreme Court has rejected the idea that inside trading involves "misappropriating" confidential information.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Professor Norman Bowie,which of the following factors is relevant to determining the morality of blowing the whistle?
A)the whistle blower's motive
B)whether internal channels have been exhausted
C)whether the whistle blowing has some chance of success
D)all of these choices
Q3) A bribe is remuneration for the performance of an act that's inconsistent with the work contract or the nature of the work one has been hired to perform.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Norman Bowie,whistle-blowing is morally justified only if five criteria are met.What are these five criteria?
Q5) When,if ever,are employees overly disloyal for getting a job for a competing organization? Justify your answer.
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Chapter 11: Job Discrimination
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Q1) Women entering male turf,or minority workers of either sex going into a predominantly white work environment,can find themselves uncomfortably being measured by a white male value system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is some of the statistical evidence of job discrimination?
Q3) The Supreme Court,in its 1978 ruling in the case of Bakke v.Regents of the University of California,upheld the University's right to reserve entrance places in its medical school for minorities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following statements is accurate?
A)Men cannot be victims of sexual harassment.
B)The Supreme Court has established a hard and fast line between permissible and impermissible affirmative action plans.
C)The law treats sexual harassment as a form of sexual discrimination.
D)Differences in levels and types of education explain why,on the average,men earn more than women.
Q5) Explain why sexual harassment is unethical considering two moral theories.
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