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The company's overriding concern after making the decision to close a plant should be for the firm to move as quickly as possible.
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Firms can provide support to survivors of job losses by providing emotional, directional, tactical and informational support.
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Outsourcing has invariably provided excellent results for the companies utilizing that strategy.
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Outsourcing today affects both blue collar and white collar jobs.
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Outsourcing refers to the relocation of business processes to a different company.
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In practice, it is relatively simple to determine the motives behind business giving.
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Cause-related marketing is one of the clearest examples of corporate philanthropy.
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Community foundations are non-profit organizations that specialize in grant writing and locating sources of corporate philanthropy.
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The major reason that health and welfare is one of the largest categories of business giving is the huge amount donated to programs for needy children.
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The categories of recipients to whom corporations give remain stable over time.
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Responsibility is considered a standard of excellence in corporate community involvement.
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A company may create a positive impact in the community by giving time and talents of its managers.
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It is usually easy to assess the true motives behind businesses' giving.
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Some observers worry that in times of crisis, corporate philanthropy becomes a zero sum game in that contributions that go to alleviate the crisis then do not go to causes that need them.
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Monitoring the company's community involvement projects entails review and control.
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Many companies are willing to give employees time to engage in and support community projects.
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Corporate philanthropy involves primarily the giving of financial resources, and managerial time and talent.
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Making profits and addressing social concerns are not mutually exclusive.
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Business involvement in the community represents enlightened self-interest.
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The business community now encompasses the entire world.
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Research employee-owned business firms at The National Center for Employee Ownership's website (http://www.nceo.org/) and The Employee Ownership 100 (http://www.nceo.org/library/eo100.html). Did you recognize any of the firms listed in The Employee Ownership 100? Describe some of the information that you learned.
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
There is debate over the benefits and costs associated with outsourcing. This has become such an important topic in the United States that it was a central issue in the 2004 Presidential campaign, and statistics are being kept on mass layoffs. Visit the Bureau of Labor Statistics website at http://www.bls.gov/mls/home.htm. Review some of the statistics provided there. What trends do you see? Does this information alter your view of outsourcing in any way?
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Evaluate the Minnesota HEALS project, funded by General Mills. Was this an appropriate use of corporate funds?
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
One of the major questions in corporate giving to higher education is whether the donations should be "with strings attached" or not. Should corporate giving have specific expectations attached to it?
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Pick a company that you are interested in (maybe you or your parent work there, or it is a company that you would like to work for). Research its giving history. What did you find out? Is it clear how the program fits with the firm's business activities?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe UPS's success in volunteer programs.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
How does the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Corporate Social Responsibility Report makes the case for corporate social responsibility?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe how a company can provide support to "survivors" of a layoff.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
One of the recommended actions for a company that has made its decision to close a plant is to help attract a replacement industry. How likely is this to occur?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Assume that you are the general manager at a plant that will be closing in one year. It is a small plant, and so is not subject to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). Should you give your employees advance notice of the closing? Why or why not?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Review the pros and cons of outsourcing.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Delineate the arguments for and against the practice of cause-related marketing.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
What reasons to corporate executives use to justify corporate giving to the arts?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Calls for more transparency in corporate giving programs has again raised the question of the role of business in society. Summarize the reasons for more transparency and the reasons against it.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Discuss how Transparency International fulfills its mission to deter and disclose corporate corruption around the world.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
A key step in developing a community action program is knowing the company's community. What is involved in this step?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
One justification for corporate involvement in the community is that business has a moral responsibility to build a relationship with the community and to be sensitive to its impact on the world around it. Discuss this justification using the Seven Standards of Excellence in Corporate Community Involvement.
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Is the green approach just a fad?
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Is economic growth an appropriate goal for business?
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Describe the use of cost-benefit analysis in managing environmental matters. Evaluate its appropriateness as a decision-making tool for environmental issues.
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Go to the EPA's website, http://www.epa.gov/triexplorer, and input your zip code to generate a report about the releases of toxic chemicals where you live. Research the effects of the largest chemical released in your area. Report your findings.
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Based on the knowledge you gained about emissions trading, decide if this is an acceptable solution to our air pollution problem.
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Utilize the knowledge you have gained to respond to the following essay questions. Your answers should state your position and use logical arguments and content from this and other chapters in the textbook to support it.
Describe the major sources of pollution in the area where you live.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.How can smartphones be used to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
What is the focus of sustainability?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Explain the concept of the "tragedy of the commons."
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe what is meant by "wicked problems" and why they are considered so problematic.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe the basic problems of producing toxic substances.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
What are the answers to our overuse of nonrenewable energy resources?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Detail some of the effects of land degradation.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
What are the likely effects of degraded marine environments?
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe some of the potential effects of water shortages or "water bankruptcy."
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe the "solution" that some businesses have for hazardous wastes.
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Provide a short answer to each of these questions. Be sure to fully explain your answer.
Describe some of the changes that have occurred as a result of global warming.
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Ecoterrorism is all the following except
A.employing violent acts that involve real or threatened damage to people or property to attempt to achieve goals.
B.taking an increased importance.
C.in the form of radical groups.
D.fought through the federal level with such as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.
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Orphan sites are
A.land sites with renewable energy sources
B.superfund sites where money from the original polluter has been exhausted or no responsibility party can be found
C.deforestation plots
D.water spills
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Hazardous wastes can include all the following except
A.solids.
B.food.
C.contained gases.
D.sludges
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Which of the following is not considered a systematic management approach to selecting or constructing an environmental strategy?
A.crisis management.
B.accommodation strategy.
C.issues management.
D.stakeholder management.
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Paul Dolan formulated all of the following principles of sustainable success except
A.True power is living what you know.
B.Your business should never overextend in any area.
C.You can't predict the future, but you can create it.
D.There is a way to make an idea's time come.
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Which of the following is not a principle of sustainable success?
A.Your business should never use more than it can replace.
B.Your business is part of a much larger system.
C.The culture of your business is determined by the context you create for it.
D.The soul of a business is found in the hearts of its people.
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Managers can use crisis management in the environmental area by focusing on:
A.Prevention
B.Contingency plans
C.all of these
D.none of these
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CERES principles include all of the following except
A.reduce environmental, health, and safety risks to employees and the public
B.environmental restoration
C.concentrate on industrialized countries
D.informing the public
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Which of the following is not a CERES principle?
A.protection of the biosphere
B.sustainable use of natural resources
C.reduction of waste
D.cooperation with business and government
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Business that meets the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is following principles of
A.endurance.
B.long-termism.
C.sustainability.
D.ecological determinism.
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Businesses are paying close attention to all of the following green groups except
A.consumers.
B.legislators.
C.employees.
D.investors.
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Groups that employ violent acts that involve real or threatened damage to people or property in pursuit of environmental goals are called
A.radical ecologists.
B.scientific anarchists.
C.ecoterrorists.
D.bio-environmentalists.
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Environmental interest groups believe that the threat of confrontation motivates companies to
A.undergone a series of bitter court cases.
B.be more cooperative with them.
C.joined forces to lobby Congress for more stringent environmental laws.
D.been forced to stop conferring, due to antitrust concerns.
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In the Montreal Protocol of 1987, most of the nations that produced or used CFCs agreed to
A.a gradual phase-out of those materials.
B.limit future use of CFCs to amounts produced in that year.
C.an immediate ban on all CFCs.
D.a quick phase-out of CFCs.
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The purpose of Superfund legislation was to
A.identify toxic waste sites.
B.eliminate dumping of toxic wastes.
C.clean up hazardous waste dumps and spills.
D.prevent land degradation.
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One approach to resolving air pollution problems, intended to reduce a particular pollutant over an entire industrial region by treating all emission sources as if they were under one bubble is called
A.emissions trading.
B.blanket controls.
C.comprehensive emissions regulation.
D.the clean air provision.
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Reports of studies explaining and estimating the ecological ramifications of questionable practices and irreversible uses of resources and proposing detailed, reasonable alternatives to these practices and uses are
A.triple bottom line reports.
B.social needs statements.
C.environmental impact statements.
D.engineering assessment studies.
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Which of the following is not a reason for devoting resources to achieving sustainability?
A.the upside benefits.
B.the upside risks.
C.the downside risks.
D.the right thing to do.
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The number of oil spills reported worldwide in a typical year is
A.very small.
B.about 100.
C.under 5,000.
D.around 14,000.
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Chemicals or mixtures that may present unreasonable risks of injury to health or to the environment are called
A.industrial wastes.
B.water pollution.
C.toxic substances.
D.radioactive material.
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Energy inefficiency is a major concern
A.with renewable energy sources.
B.with transportation, but not in housing.
C.primarily for the wealthy.
D.in all countries.
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Indoor air pollution
A.can be cured by using air conditioning.
B.is found primarily in less developed countries.
C.is becoming an increasing concern because most people spend the majority of their lives indoors.
D.is not a significant environmental problem.
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Precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids
A.occurs only in wet forms.
B.is called acid rain.
C.occurs mostly in rain forests.
D.affects only man-made products.
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A mixture of wet and dry deposited material from the atmosphere causing higher than normal amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids is
A.acid rain.
B.smog.
C.ozone impact.
D.waste deposits.
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Endangered species are threatened with extinction due to all of the following reasons except
A.ecosystem degradation.
B.habitat destruction.
C.drought.
D.pollution.
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Problems made worse by deforestation include
A.soil erosion.
B.the greenhouse effect.
C.moisture and nutrient ecosystem cycles.
D.all of these.