Corporate Social Responsibility Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the principles and practices of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), examining how businesses manage their operations to produce an overall positive impact on society. Students will analyze the ethical, legal, environmental, and economic responsibilities of organizations, and learn how CSR strategies can enhance corporate reputation, stakeholder trust, and long-term profitability. Through case studies and practical examples, the course addresses topics such as sustainability, ethical decision-making, stakeholder engagement, and the integration of social and environmental concerns in business strategy.
Recommended Textbook Law and Ethics in the Business Environment 8th Edition by Terry Halbert
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Chapter 1: Law, Ethics, Business: An Introduction
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Q1) Which of the following statements best illustrates the view of "utilitarianism"?
I. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
II. The risk reasonably to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed and risks imports relation; it is risk to another or to others within the range of apprehension.
III. An action is right when maximizing welfare and total well-being.
IV. Individuals should pursue his or her own self-interest, even at the expense of others.
A) I only
B) III only
C) I and II
D) I, II, and III
Answer: B
Q2) Corporate director or officer decisions to dedicate corporate funds for social causes is called:
A) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
B) Social Activism (SA)
C) Business Engagement in Environmental Situations (BEES)
D) Strategic Investment in Stakeholder Issues (SISI)
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Duty of Loyalty: Whistleblowing
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Q1) Explain what happened in the 1968 Supreme Court's re-interpretation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding public employees' limited speech protections.
Answer: In 1968, the case of Pickering v. Board of Education addressed a public school teacher's criticism of the local school board. The Court weighed "the interests of the teacher, as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern" against the State (a.k.a. the school board). The Pickering case gave public employees limited speech protection.
Q2) To determine whether a public employee receives First Amendment protection from speech (and therefore cannot be fired for it), the Supreme Court has stated that all of the following are important except:
A) The employer must have a justification for treating the employee differently than it would treat a member of the general public.
B) The speech cannot be about political topics.
C) The speech must be about something of great public concern.
D) The speech cannot be made as part of the employment (such as an internal memorandum).
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Privacy and Technology
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Q1) According to the article excerpted in the text entitled, The Functions of Privacy, by Alan Westin, privacy has several functions in today's society. These include:
A) Total freedom in the private life with no consequences to the work life.
B) The ability to vent anger at authority without being held responsible.
C) The ability to post critical information on the Internet without consequences at work.
D) The ability to spend time quietly analyzing the actions and reactions of other people.
Answer: B
Q2) Name the two main factors that most courts use in determining whether or not electronic monitoring of employees is an invasion of privacy.
Answer: (1) The obnoxiousness of the means to intrude. In other words, is the method used a deviation from the normal, accepted means of discovering relevant information and (2) the reasons for intruding.
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Chapter 4: Valuing Diversity: Stereotyping v Inclusion
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Q1) Federal courts have consistently held that the Civil Rights Act's ban on 'discrimination on the basis of sex' does not include discrimination based on one's sexual orientation or affiliation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Employment practices without business justification applied to all employees that result in a less favorable effect for one group than for another group may state a claim for:
A) disparate treatment
B) disparate impact
C) inclusion
D) reasonable accommodation
Q3) What is the EEOC guideline on English-only workplace rules? What are two reasons given for the rules?
Q4) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) favors English-only rules because they decrease the ability for people to stereotype based on national origin or ethnicity and thus decrease illegal workplace discrimination.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Workers Rights as Human Rights: Health and Safety
in the Global Workplace
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Q1) Typically individual stockholders are not held responsible for the actions of a corporation. Exceptions usually relate to comingling of funds, underinsuring, or similar actions by the corporate leadership. This is called:
A) risking liability
B) piercing the corporate veil
C) the privilege of the stockholders
D) free market trading of stocks
Q2) Discuss how corporate criminal liability has been handled by OSHA since 1970.
Q3) Almost all of the hazards that workers face are known and visible.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Henry Shue, firms are not in the business of protecting the interests of their workers, except when this is a means to accomplish the organizational objectives.
A)True
B)False
Q5) According to Henry Shue, what are the six factors required to make a cost a true harm?
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Q6) Explain how worker's compensation in the U.S. works.
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Chapter 6: Environmental Law and Justice: Responsibility and Survival
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Q1) The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty to reduce greenhouse admissions, signed by over 200 countries including the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Explain the Crisis of Agrobiodiversity as explained by Carmen G. Gonzalez.
Q3) According to Alice Kaswan, environmental justice has had:
A) an extreme impact on environmental law
B) a significant impact on environmental law
C) a modest impact on environmental law
D) no impact on environmental law
Q4) The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution explicitly protects private property owners' economic interests. Explain how this amendment affects owners of private property.
Q5) A "green tax" uses government taxing power to benefit the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What is environmental justice? What started the movement in the United States?
Q7) Discuss the obligations of human beings to Mother Earth according to the universal declaration of rights of Mother Earth.
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Chapter 7: Marketing and Technology: Choice and Manipulation
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Q1) Citizens have always been afforded freedom of speech after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "creative revolution" in advertising refers to
A) The move from black and white to color advertising.
B) The move from talking about a product to showing what a product can do.
C) The move from showing what a product can do to making the product a status symbol.
D) The move from making a product a status symbol to using subliminal messaging to "force" consumers to buy the product.
Q3) According to the Learned Intermediary Rule, pharmaceutical manufacturers do not have to warm consumers about drug dangers as long as they have adequately warned physicians.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the Lanham Act? To succeed in suit under the Lanham Act, what must a plaintiff prove?
Q5) Discuss some of the ways the FTC has curbed online marketing efforts.
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Chapter 8: Allocating Risk and Responsibilities in the Global Marketplace:
Products Liability
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Q1) Compare the regulation of biotechnology in the United States to that of the European Union.
Q2) Absent provisions in the contract, which of the following types of damage can be awarded to an injured party under a breach of contract?
A) General damages only
B) General and incidental damages only
C) General, incidental, and special damages only
D) General, incidental, special and punitive damages
Q3) Explain the features of Section 402A of the Restatement of Torts (Second).
Q4) What did the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) do? Has it accomplished what it should have? Why or why not?
Q5) The organization that works with companies on recalls of unsafe products (such as lead-paint laden Thomas the Train toys) is
A) The Consumer Protection Group (CPG)
B) The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
C) The Product Protection People (P3)
D) The Buy American Coalition (BAC)
Q6) What are punitive damages?
Q7) Explain how injured parties can recover damages under the UCC.
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Chapter 9: Ownership, Creativity and Innovation: Intellectual Property
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Q1) Give a brief description of the increased protection in U.S. Copyright laws starting in 1994 and using approximate dates.
Q2) Nike's swoosh, McDonald's arches, and the Xerox name are all identifiable trademarks. Which of the following laws protect(s) them?
I. Lanham Trademark Act of 1946
II. Federal Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006
III. Sonny Bono Act of 1998
A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II
D) II and III
Q3) Debora Halbert asserts in her essay that:
A) women have benefited greatly from intellectual property laws.
B) intellectual property has historically benefited men more than women.
C) in the nineteenth century, writing poetry and novels enabled women to not only express themselves intellectually but to reap financial rewards as well.
D) when women knitted or quilted, they were reluctant to share their patterns with other women.
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