Corporate Social Responsibility
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Course Introduction
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) explores the ethical, legal, and voluntary responsibilities of corporations to society. This course examines how organizations balance profit-making objectives with actions that benefit stakeholders, communities, and the environment. Students will analyze various CSR theories, frameworks, and real-world case studies to understand the role of ethical decision-making, corporate governance, sustainability, and social accountability. The course also investigates the impact of CSR on brand reputation, stakeholder relations, and long-term business success, equipping students with the skills needed to implement responsible corporate practices in a globalized marketplace.
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Business Ethics A Textbook with Cases 8th Edition by William H. Shaw
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Morality
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Q1) The paradox of hedonism (or the paradox of selfishness) is that people who are exclusively concerned with their own interests tend to have happier and more satisfying lives than those who are concerned about other people.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following characteristics distinguishes moral standards from other sorts of standards?
A) moral standards are purely optional
B) moral standards take priority over other standards, including self-interest.
C) moral standards cannot be justified by reasons
D) moral standards must be set or validated by some authoritative body
Answer: B
Q3) Our conscience evolved as we internalized the moral instructions of the parents or other authority figures who raised us as children.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Normative Theories of Ethics
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Q1) 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
Q2) According to Kant
A) good will is the only thing that is good in itself.
B) an action has moral worth if it is consistent with the categorical imperative.
C) only actions based on feeling or sentiment have moral worth.
D) a self-interested person can never do the right action.
Answer: A
Q3) The rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are positive rights, not negative rights.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Justice and Economic Distribution
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Q1) According to Case 3.2, "Battling Over Bottled Water", water is the lifeblood of the earth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Utilitarians are likely to be sympathetic to the argument that steps should be taken to reduce the great disparities of income that characterize our society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) John Rawls' Theory of Justice lays within which type of tradition?
A) All for one and one for all.
B) Principled living.
C) Feudal society.
D) Social contract.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The Nature of Capitalism
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Q1) Utilitarians reject the very idea of a natural right to property.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Marx, when workers are alienated they are not truly free.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An exclusive focus on short-term performance
A) is the best guarantee of a company's long-term performance.
B) has helped to create a high-pressure environment conducive to fraud.
C) encourages long-term research and development.
D) hurts stock prices.
Q4) According to Alfie Kohn, competition promotes individual and group achievement better than cooperation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Government programs often subsidize American businesses and protect them from competition.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Corporations
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Q1) "Limited liability" means that members of a corporation are financially liable for corporate debts only up to the extent of their investments.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The idea that corporations are moral agents
A) is accepted by many people and companies without hesitation.
B) has not been accepted by the courts.
C) has not been accepted by any major corporation.
D) is supported by the fiduciary relationship between management and shareholders.
Q3) An effective professional or business moral code-as well as the public's awareness of this code-is never good for business.
A)True
B)False
Q4) According to Kenneth Arrow, trust and confidence are highly overrated in business.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Consumers
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Q1) Which statement is accurate in its description of consumer protection?
A) The Consumer Product Safety Commission has the power to order recalls.
B) Statistics show that, in fact, safety regulations rarely succeed in increasing safety.
C) Critics agree that the cost of safety regulations and product recalls are negligible.
D) Safety regulations permit people to choose to save money by purchasing riskier (but less expensive) products.
Q2) Legal paternalism is the doctrine that the law
A) may justifiably restrict the freedom of the individual for his or her own good.
B) may justifiably forbid lawsuits against those who act paternalistically.
C) should encourage business to develop a paternal sense of responsibility for consumers.
D) should only restrict people's freedom in order to protect other people.
Q3) Business's responsibility for understanding and providing for consumer needs derives from the fact that citizen-consumers are dependent on business to satisfy their needs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Environment
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Q1) A moral of Garrett Hardin's parable "The Tragedy of the Commons" is that there can be a difference between the private costs and the social costs of a business activity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Shaw and Barry, utilitarians
A) focus on human well-being and ignore animal welfare.
B) oppose animal experimentation in principle.
C) should include nonhuman animal pleasures and pains in the overall utilitarian calculus.
D) are likely to favor factory farming.
Q3) The international fishing industry as it exists today gives us good reason to reject the moral of Garrett Hardin's "Parable of the Commons."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Moral vegetarians are people who reject the eating of meat on moral grounds. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Workplace 1: Basic Issues
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Q1) Sympathetic strikes are ineffective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Employers have the right to fire an employee who performs inadequately, but they should do so
A) as painlessly as possible.
B) with vengeance.
C) in a public display so all can learn.
D) in humiliation.
Q3) When most people fire another employee, they do it with great joy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Due process requires specific and systematic means for workers to appeal discharge or disciplinary decisions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The reliability of a test refers to the quality of exhibiting a reasonable consistency in results obtained.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Workplace 2: Todays Challenges
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Q1) Fatigue and sleep deprivation are no longer prime causes of industrial accidents. A)True
B)False
Q2) The most common reason that people leave their jobs is
A) low wages.
B) too much overtime.
C) a poor relationship with their immediate supervisor.
D) lousy benefits.
Q3) As a general rule, the burden is on an organization to establish the legitimacy of infringing on what would normally be considered the personal sphere of the individual.
A)True
B)False
Q4) One study suggests a positive correlation between job satisfaction and longevity. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Moral Choices Facing Employees
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Q1) Sometimes companies require employees to sign contracts restricting their ability to get a job with, or start, a competing company. Because they can conflict with freedom of employment, not all such "noncompete" or "nondisclosure" contracts are legally valid.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Norman Bowie, a discussion of whistle blowing in the 1990s parallels the discussion of civil disobedience in the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
A) makes it easier to fire whistle blowers.
B) reduces the law's protection of employees who disclose securities fraud.
C) makes it illegal for executives to retaliate against employees who report possible violations of federal law.
D) provides penalties for blowing the whistle illegitimately or maliciously.
Q4) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act weakened legal protections for whistle blowers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Job Discrimination
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Q1) The Supreme Court has ruled that sexual favoritism is a form of sexual harassment and is therefore illegal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) Fill in the blank. Today most large corporations not only accept the necessity of affirmative action but also find that _______________ benefits when they make themselves more diverse?
A) the morale of the company
B) the bottom line
C) the law department
D) the managers
Q4) Job discrimination occurs if three conditions are met. What are they?
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