Business Influence on Government and Public Policy
The numerical designation for a tax-exempt social welfare organization?
What is a: 501(c)(4) or (c)(3)
An umbrella term intended to embrace drug and alcohol testing and employer testing for any suspected substance abuse.
What is: Drug testing
The practice of offering something (usually money, but also other monetary benefits) in order to gain an illicit advantage.
What is: bribery
Business may be defined as the collection of private, commercially oriented (profit-oriented) organizations, ranging in size from one-family proprietorships (e.g., DePalma’s Italian Café, Half-Moon Outfitters, and Taqueria del Sol) to corporate giants (e.g., Coca-Cola, UPS, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Delta Airlines).
What is: Business
Views companies as citizens and all this implies.
What is: Corporate Citizenship
The Golden Rule of politics is
What is: He who has the gold makes the rules
When companies research and compile criminal records, commercial records, and financial records of an individual applicants and current employees.
What are: Background checks
International trade in goods, services, movement of labor, and global flows of capital and information.
What is: Globalization
Pluralism refers to a diffusion of power among society’s many groups and organizations.
What is: Pluralism
The goal of the triple bottom line approach.
What is: Corporate Sustainability
Political contributions from undisclosed donors
What is: Dark money
A state of equilibrium where the demands of a person’s personal and professional life are equal.
Payments for the primary purpose of getting officials to fulfill their obligations to their jobs.
What are: Grease Payments
The social contract is a set of reciprocal understandings that characterize the relationship between major institutions.
What is: the Social Contract
Activities, standards, and practices that are expected or prohibited by society even though they are not codified into law.
What are: Ethical Responsibilities
The process of influencing public officials to promote or secure the passage or defeat of legislation called?
What is: Lobbying
A commission that monitors the fair treatment of employees and protected classes.
What is: EEOC
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
A position holds that the business firm should continue to follow its home country’s ethical standards even while operating in another country.
What is: Ethical Imperialism
Stakeholders are individuals or groups with which business interacts who have a “stake,” or vested interest, in the firm.
What is: Stakeholders
A pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for future generations.
What is: Sustainability
A clarification by the Supreme Court on the implementation of Citizens United, by ruling that any government restrictions on the amount corporations can spend would be unconstitutional.
What is Speech Now v FEC
A specific kind of personality test used to determine an employee’s potential for honesty.
What are: Integrity Tests
A controversy involving aggressive marketing practices in developing countries to encourage the use of formula over breast feeding, which was seen as compromising babies’ health.
What is: Infant Formula Controversy
Nonprofit organizations are frequently called nongovernmental organizations. They are citizens’ groups that may be organized on a local, national, or international level.
What are: Non governmental organizations (NGO)s
Reflect society’s view of “codified ethics” in the sense that they articulate basic notions of fair practices as established by lawmakers.
What are: Legal responsibilities