Top 150+ Solved Managing for Sustainability MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What is meant by the phrase 'teleological ethics'?
a. Is used to judge is an action is right, fair and honest.
b. An action can only be judged by its consequences.
c. Developing the individual personal characteristics.
d. The key purpose of ethics is to increase freedom.
Q. For Karl Marx, where do our values come from?
a. They are a product of our upbringing and our parents.
b. They are a product of the economic system within which we live.
c. They are a product of social inequality.
d. They are a product of what we are taught at school.
Q. What does Milton Friedman believe to be the sole responsibility of business?
a. The only social responsibility of business is to its shareholders.
b. Managers should act in ways that balance the interest of society and shareholders.
c. The primary responsibility organizations have is to its employees.
d. The primary responsibility organizations have is to its stakeholders.
Q. What, according to Adam Smith, is the best way to promote collective interest?
a. Through government making decisions about what is in the public interest.
b. Through everyone working together to support each other.
c. Through everyone working on their own self-interest
d. Through individuals forgoing their personal interest for the good of the collective.
Q. Why, according to stakeholder theory, is it in companies' best interests to pay attentionto their stakeholders?
a. If firms only act in their own self-interest employees may feel exploited.
b. If firms only act in their own self-interest government might put more regulation on them.
c. If firms only act in their own self-interest customers might not like the image that the company portray.
d. If firms only act in their own self-interest and inflict harm on stakeholders then society might withdraw its support.
Q. What is the enlightened self-interest model of CSR?
a. That it is in an organization's own best interest to put itself first rather than its ethics.
b. That it is in an organization's best interest to consider what a shareholder would want.
c. That it is in an organization's own best interest to act in an ethical way.
d. That it is in an organization's own best interest to follow the legislation and abide by the law.
Q. What is green washing?
a. Transforming products to be more ethical.
b. Making a product appear more ethical that it really is.
c. Converting the company to green production methods.
d. Convincing customers to buy ethically.
Q. What is triple bottom line?
a. An accounting tool that looks at the impact on people, planet and profits.
b. A management strategy which states all the attention should be on profits.
c. An accounting tool that looks at cost, profit and loss.
d. A management strategy which focuses on corporate social responsibility.
Q. Why do alternative organizations run differently from conventional shareholder led approach?
a. They do not have shareholders.
b. They are run in non-hierarchical ways which aim to provide a positive impact on society rather than to make profit.
c. They priorities corporate social responsibility.
d. They aim to give money to charities and good causes.
Q. What does and Ethical Foundation for an organisation embody?
a. The structure, operational and conduct of the activities of the organization
b. The basic principles which govern the external and internal relations of the organization
c. Neither of the above
d. All of these
Q. What does the importance of ethical behaviour, integrity and trust call into question?
a. The extent to which managers should attempt to change the underlying beliefs and values of individual followers
b. Who does what
c. What we do next
d. None of the above
Q. A ________ _________ sets out the purpose and general direction for the organisation?
a. Mission statement
b. Purpose statement
c. Vision
d. Profit statement
Q. Which of the following would most effectively act as the primary objective of a business organisation?
a. To make a profit
b. To procure resources
c. To communicate with shareholders
d. To mediate between the organisation and the environment
Q. What is the purpose of a balanced scorecard?
a. To measure contribution of people to business growth
b. To combine a range of qualitative and quantitative indicators of performance
c. To relate business performance to customer satisfaction
d. To relate business performance to financial measures
Q. Which of the following does the term Corporate Social Responsibility relate to?
a. Ethical conduct
b. Environmental practice
c. Community investment
d. All of the above