What is the obligation of a business to contribute to the well-being of a community?
100
Oil, natural gas, coal, iron
What are non-renewable resources?
100
Workforces that reflect the various groups in a community.
What is workplace diversity?
100
A ____________ workforce is a _______________ workforce.
What is a healthy workforce is a productive workforce?
100
Ethics
What are principles of morality or rules of conduct?
200
Socially responsible actions
What are recycling, volunteering for a non-profit organization, carpooling, and picking up trash?
200
Preserving our scarce natural resources
What is Conservation?
200
Women, Older Workers, Individuals who are physically challenged.
Who are groups that are sometimes discriminated against?
200
Stop-Smoking Seminars, Counseling for Employees with Drug Problems, and Weight Loss Sessions
What are programs employers offer to promote employee wellness?
200
Rules about how businesses and their employees ought to behave.
What is Business Ethics?
300
Two social responsibility issues mentioned in Chapter 9.
What are environmental protection, workplace diversity, safety on the job, and employee wellness?
300
The by-products of human activity.
What is pollution?
300
The only reason employers can exclude women applicants.
What is proving the job requires physical skills the women do not possess?
300
Promotes safety on the job
What are providing maximum protection from fire and other hazards and training employees on how to work safely and what to do in the case of an emergency?
300
Code of Ethics
What is a statement of rules for guiding the behavior of employees or members of an organization?
400
One of the businesses profiled in the Case Studies we worked on as a group.
What are Me to We, Keurig Green Mountain, Xerox, and Tellus?
400
EPA
What is the federal government organization that monitors air and water quality?
400
Age Discrimination in Employment Act
What prohibits employers from using age as a basis for employment decisions?
400
OSHA
What is a government agency that regulates and enforces safety in the workplace?
400
A business's top management
What determines the ethical behavior of a business?
500
Benefit of being a socially responsible business.
What is lesser government control over what a business can or cannot do?
500
A business takes action to reduce or completely eliminate operations that cause pollution.
What is a socially responsible business?
500
Major challenge facing businesses today.
What is learning how to manage a workforce made up of the various cultures in our society?
500
Clauses in labor contracts and company policy manuals that pertain to the health and safety of employees while on the job.
What are conditions of work?
500
Types of businesses who typically publish codes of ethics.