Exam 2: The Environment: Culture, Ethics, and Social Responsibility

Explain the stakeholders' approach to ethics.

Employees should be encouraged to expose what they believe to be unethical behavior by their fellow employees.This is called _____________.

____________ design a desirable future and invent ways of bringing it about.

There is a clear and easily measured positive impact of corporate social responsibility on corporate profits.

What does one call the organization's purpose or reason for being?

______ are values and beliefs that are so deeply ingrained they are considered unquestionably true and taken for granted.

The four-way test includes the question, "Would I be proud to tell relevant stakeholders my decision?"

You have been the manager of a popular night club for the past three years.The night club industry is highly vulnerable to the external environment.Please select and discuss one task factor and one general factor that you think are most important to this industry.

Employees learn organizational culture primarily through ____________.

You recently have been promoted to the position of lead manager at a local casino.In your position, you are responsible for auditing the daily intakes from all of the poker tables.Because you started as a poker dealer, you know how easy it is to pocket chips and then cash them in and since you have a good relationship with your team, you know you could take this opportunity to make some extra cash.Just in case you were tempted to run this scam, which of the five simple guides for ethical behavior would you call on to not take the chips?

The primary benefits of a strong culture include all of the following, except ____________.

Business environments generally change at a(n) ____ pace.

An organization's culture is manifested in the key values and principles that leaders preach and practice and in its employees' attitudes and behavior.

The Levels of Culture pyramid are comprised of all of the following, except ______________.

Organizations with strong cultures do all of the following, except ____________.

Joaquin is a human resource manager for a midsize corporate firm.The recent construction project that was completed in his department has been approved by the rest of the corporation because of his energy-saving improvements, which are providing an overall reduction of natural resources by the firm.The project was a win-win for all the stakeholders.This is considered to be ____________.

Renata's video rental store has seen a drastic decline in business over the past five years.What major external environmental factor is to blame?

When we behave unethically, we often justify the behavior to protect our ______ so that we do not have to feel bad.

Keeshawn has hired a local advertising firm to create a new logo for his restaurant using the restaurant name.The new logo will be a _________ of the restaurant.

The five components of internal environment include mission, value, system processes, resources, and organization.