Exam 3: Integrative Managerial Issues

Opposing Views of Social Responsibility (Scenario) The board of directors of the Four Forks Generating Corporation is meeting to consider the construction of a new electrical generation facility near the Four Forks River. Director Appleton prefers a coal-burning plant because it promises to be the most profitable alternative. Over the short term at least, a coal plant will be by far the least expensive facility to build and operate. Coal is cheap and the considerable pollution from the plant won't affect anything within hundreds of miles from the plant. Director Estrella wants a nuclear plant to be located 30 miles upriver from the biggest city in the area. Nuclear power is cleaner than coal. Completely safeguarding the community against accidents in the plant or the disposal of toxic waste could be very expensive. However, Estrella has discovered that the job can be done much more cheaply by cutting some corners-while still strictly following all laws-and creating some additional risk for the community. Director Jossleman supports the most expensive option of the three-she wants a wind farm to be built along the banks of the river on top of a ridge. The wind turbines produce absolutely no pollution and pose no threat to the community or the environment. They are expensive to build and to operate at the current time because they require elaborate back-up systems to function when the wind isn't blowing. -Suppose Director Jossleman proposes building a wildlife preserve near the wind farm for the local community.What is Josselman demonstrating in her proposal?

What does Walmart's business policy say about the company's belief in global climate change?

Part-time, temporary, and contract workers who are available for hire on an as-needed basis are known as ________.

University (Scenario) Gina is a dean at Polydor College, a school with almost 6,000 students. In her daily activities, she has to deal with problems that involve students, faculty, curriculum, budgets, and a variety of other things. Among the problems Gina needs to deal with are complaints from students that the Physics Department has only one faculty member who is a woman and one who is a member of a minority group. Gina has been meeting with the department chair to address this problem. Gina recognizes that students and parents pay a lot of money to attend the university, so when large and small problems arise Gina wants them dealt with effectively. She has installed a 24-hour "Hassle Line" with highly trained people to answer questions and solve problems. She hopes to have her Hassle Line employees function within a customer responsive culture. -Gina's Hassle Line fields a call in which a work-study student is complaining that he is being discriminated against because he is a transgender person.What should Gina do?

Opposing Views of Social Responsibility (Scenario) The board of directors of the Four Forks Generating Corporation is meeting to consider the construction of a new electrical generation facility near the Four Forks River. Director Appleton prefers a coal-burning plant because it promises to be the most profitable alternative. Over the short term at least, a coal plant will be by far the least expensive facility to build and operate. Coal is cheap and the considerable pollution from the plant won't affect anything within hundreds of miles from the plant. Director Estrella wants a nuclear plant to be located 30 miles upriver from the biggest city in the area. Nuclear power is cleaner than coal. Completely safeguarding the community against accidents in the plant or the disposal of toxic waste could be very expensive. However, Estrella has discovered that the job can be done much more cheaply by cutting some corners-while still strictly following all laws-and creating some additional risk for the community. Director Jossleman supports the most expensive option of the three-she wants a wind farm to be built along the banks of the river on top of a ridge. The wind turbines produce absolutely no pollution and pose no threat to the community or the environment. They are expensive to build and to operate at the current time because they require elaborate back-up systems to function when the wind isn't blowing. -Director Jossleman is exhibiting which of the following social responsibility views?

Hofstede based his ratings on the traits of people of different nationalities with whom he was personally acquainted.

An organization can be considered "global" simply if it carries out trade with other countries.

Proponents of the socioeconomic view of social responsibility believe that being socially responsive is ________.

University (Scenario) Gina is a dean at Polydor College, a school with almost 6,000 students. In her daily activities, she has to deal with problems that involve students, faculty, curriculum, budgets, and a variety of other things. Among the problems Gina needs to deal with are complaints from students that the Physics Department has only one faculty member who is a woman and one who is a member of a minority group. Gina has been meeting with the department chair to address this problem. Gina recognizes that students and parents pay a lot of money to attend the university, so when large and small problems arise Gina wants them dealt with effectively. She has installed a 24-hour "Hassle Line" with highly trained people to answer questions and solve problems. She hopes to have her Hassle Line employees function within a customer responsive culture. -Gina sees her school's greatest opportunity to increase enrollment in prospective students who were born in the 1980s and early 1990s.What term describes these prospective students?

Which of the following dimensions from the GLOBE framework has no equivalent counterpart in Hofstede's framework?

Which of the following would be likely to be true in a country with a high power distance?

The classical view of social responsibility holds that spending time, money, labor, or energy to improve society's welfare would ________.

Franchising is used widely by ________.

Today's younger workers tend to give family a higher priority than their jobs.

There is little evidence that managers of major organizations ever fail to act responsibly and ethically.

Having a written code of ethics ensures that an organization's members will behave ethically.

A multinational corporation (MNC)________.

Which of the following is most likely at the root of the problems that befell an unethical company like Enron?

Which of the following is NOT a typical attempt by management to provide flexibility in the workplace?

Business Expansion Plan (Scenario) As a business expansion director, Shana's goal is to scout potential locations for her company's planned expansion to other countries. There are many options, some of which include maintaining the business's head office in the United States. Other options send company representatives to foreign operations when necessary, or establishing separate operation facilities abroad and hiring locals as managers. -Shana is considering forming a partnership with a Dutch corporation that will create an entirely new company called Half Moon.What kind of enterprise will Half Moon be?