FINAL EXAM

THE GREENING OF MANAGEMENT

The Environmental Study (Scenario)

You have just been challenged by your supervisor to study and report your findings on approaches that organizations use when dealing with the environment. Your boss tells you to study the four major approaches, differentiate among them, and report to him in a week.

Under what approach do organizations exhibit little environmental sensitivity, obey rules and regulations willingly without legal challenge, and even try to use these rules to their own advantage?

• stakeholder approach

• market approach

• legal approach

• activist approach

What approach deals with an organization responding to the environment because of the preferences of their customers?

• stakeholder approach

• market approach

• legal approach

• activist approach

Under what approach does the organization work to meet the environmental demands of multiple groups of people including employees, suppliers, or the community?

• stakeholder approach

• market approach

• legal approach

• activist approach

Under what approach does the organization look for ways to respect and preserve the earth and its natural resources?

• stakeholder approach

• market approach

• legal approach

• activist approach

Managerial Ethics

Moral Development (Scenario)

You have had serious ideas of late about stealing money from petty cash in order to get back on top of your back rent. Upon reading Chapter 5 of the textbook, you learn there are levels of moral development, each composed of two stages. You are ashamed of your thoughts and read more to see where you are in terms of your own moral development.

At what level does ethical reasoning indicate that moral values reside in maintaining expected standards and living up to the expectations of others?

• principled level

• preconventional level

• conventional level

• all of the above

An Academic Question (Scenario)

As a university student, you wonder about some of the practices in the university and just how some of these practices should be evaluated in reference to social issues.

If your university were paying minimum wage when necessary and applying the minimum standard to laws, such as affirmative action, it would be said to have fulfilled its _______________.

• social expectation

• social responsiveness

• social obligation

• social responsibility

• all of the above

During the _____ stage of group development, members cautiously exchange information and conflicts begin to emerge.

• storming

• performing

• forming

• norming

During the _____ stage of group development, members begin to develop norms and to understand the scope of their task(s) besides generating strong relationships and cohesiveness.

• storming

• norming

• forming

• adjourning

• performing

The ideal team for a HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT that faces difficulties because of high rates of employee turn over is

• virtual team

• self managed work team

• problem solving team

• cross functional team

• all of the above

Leadership in a team is....

• conducted by somebody incharged

• shared

• individual

• none of the above