Exam 2: Managing Interdependence, Social Responsibility, and Ethics

John, an American national, works as a manager at his firm's subsidiary in Indonesia.A local government official tells John that materials could be delivered to the firm's facility more quickly if John pays an extra fee to the port supervisor.What should be John's first action?

Which of the following best defines the concept of managing interdependence?

What are the proposed global labor standards of SA8000?

Decisions about ethics tend to be made at a local level, affect more people, and reflect a general stance taken by a company or a number of decision makers.

Which of the following concepts requires that an industrial system be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them?

Ethical relativism adopts the local moral code of the country in which it is operating.

Which of the following is a potential benefit to the host country of MNC operation?

Moral universalism is the need for a moral standard that is accepted by all ________.

Which of the following was the primary purpose of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Convention on Bribery?

Social responsibility deals with decisions and interactions mostly on an individual level.

Which of the following is a policy of the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC)?

Primo is a multinational enterprise based in California that manufactures and sells affordably priced athletic shoes in retail stores around the world.A Primo manufacturing subsidiary in China employs over 20,000 locals.Primo executives recently learned of human rights violations at the firm's China subsidiary.Workers had been forced to work more than 60 hours each week, and minimum wage laws were regularly ignored.As a result, Primo executives need to decide whether to continue operations in China.Which of the following is MOST relevant to the decision by Primo to remain in China?

The Anti-Sweatshop Code of Conduct requires companies to provide a healthy and safe work environment and ________.

Primo is a multinational enterprise based in California that manufactures and sells affordably priced athletic shoes in retail stores around the world.A Primo manufacturing subsidiary in China employs over 20,000 locals.Primo executives recently learned of human rights violations at the firm's China subsidiary.Workers had been forced to work more than 60 hours each week and minimum wage laws were regularly ignored.As a result, Primo executives need to decide if operations in China should be discontinued.Which of the following, if true, would best support a decision by Primo to remain in China?

The term "moral idealism" is used to address the need for a moral standard that is accepted by all cultures.

Which of the following often forces the MNC to act in accordance with ethnocentric value systems?

According to the international codes of conduct, MNEs should ________.

Payments to expedite routine transactions are often referred to as ________.

What is the difference between ethics and social responsibility? What are some of the social responsibility issues that MNCs must consider?

If MNCs want to take the lead in dealing with ecological interdependence, then they most likely need to ________.