CHAPTER 5: ETHICS, CSR & SUSTAINABILITY

Which of the following is considered to be the first step in the recipe for designing a successful CSR programme?

• Management should create a CSR policy for the business.
• An inventory of skills and resources to do the programme should be drawn up
• Employees should brainstorm to come up with initiatives for CSR
• Management must communicate the need for CSR across the business.

The three areas of social responsibility of a business are:

• Economic, Environmental, Ethical
• Political, Economic, Environmental
• Economic, Social, Environmental
• Environmental, Social, Technological

Sustainable business practice means:

• Assessing how present business practice affects the future
• Considering the benefits of stakeholder over shareholder practices
• Involving employees in decision making
• Developing BBBEE policies

When will resources be directed towards the successful implementation of a CSR programme?

• when CSR becomes part of the core and the identity of the business&brand
• When management communicates the need for CSR across the business.
• depended on the nature of the business/the needs&concerns of community
• When management communicates the CSR policy throughout the business.

Which of the following is a criterion to measure whether a business has a focus on sustainability?

• Low priority for attention
• Influencing suppliers
• Transparency
• Low priority for attention

Which of the following are examples of stakeholders?

• Unions
• Regulators
• Media
• Clients

Defensive CSR is about looking after the reputation of the business.

• True
• FALSE

Stakeholders include...

• employees
• lobby groups
• customers
• government

Companies should take the expectations of the broader community into account when making decisions

• True
• FALSE

Which of the following statements described ethics?

• All of the statements describe ethics.
• Ethics're moral principles, values govern the conduct of individual.
• Ethics is the standard of behavior by which conduct is judged.
• Morals are a foundation for ethical behavior.