A set of moral principles or values that govern behavior
What is ethics?
100
The Act that made it illegal for companies to monopolize trade.
What is the Sherman Act of 1890?
100
This law created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose mission is to protect human health and safeguard the air, water, and land.
What is the National Environmental Policy Act of 1968?
100
Some of the ways ___ evolved through three distinct schools of thought: profit maximization, trusteeship management, and social involvement.
What is views towards social responsibility?
100
A measure of how socially responsibile a company is that some managers chose to perform.
What is a social audit?
200
A document that outlines the principles of conduct to be used in making decisions within the organization.
What is a code of ethics?
200
This act made it illegal to charge different prices to different wholesale customers.
What is the Clayton Act of 1914?
200
Since the late 1960s environmental protection has been an important social and what issue in the United States?
What is economic?
200
The theory business owners in the US believed that their role was in business in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was?
What is Profit Maximization?
200
One way a company demonstrates this is by its sense of social responsibility is by contributing to charities such as the American Red Cross and March of Dimes.
What is Philanthropy and Volunteerism?
300
Ownership of ideas, such as inventions, books, movies, and computer programs.
What is intellectual property?
300
This act banned unfair or deceptive acts or practices, including false advertising.
What is the Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938?
300
This act is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions.
What is the Clean Air Act of 1970?
300
This philosophy recognized that owners of businesses had obligations to do more than just earn profits.
What is trusteeship management?
300
Businesses show their social responsibility in this field by encouraging employees to carpool to reduce toxic emissions and conserve gasoline.
What is Environmental Awareness?
400
Refers to the obligation that individuals or businesses have to help solve social problems.
What is social responsibility?
400
This commission was established in 1972 to establish minimum product safety standards on consumer products.
What is the Consumer Product Safety Commission?
400
This Act gave the EPA the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced in or imported into the United States.
What is the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976?
400
These people include company's employees, customers, suppliers and the community that have actions that effect businesses.
What is stakeholders?
400
McDonald's has done this recently by having at least 70% of the companies resturant management be a minority and women.
What is sensitivity to diversity?
500
A review of a business's social responsiveness.
What is social audit?
500
This act required creditors to let consumers know how much they are paying in finance charges and interest.
What is the Truth in Lending Act of 1968?
500
This act gave the EPA the authority to set standards on the type and quantity of pollutants that industries can put into bodies of water.
What is the Clean Water Act of 1977?
500
One example of this is the increased diversity in the workplace over the past 35 years.
What is corporations commitment to social change?
500
Some companies show their social responsibility by adopting policies that allow workers to have flexibile work hours to meet their families' needs.