Business Responsibility to Public
Principles of morality or rules of conduct
What is ethics?
This type of training should be done regularly to ensure employees are aware of potential hazards and know how to handle them safely.
What is a safety training?
This is an agreement between two or more parties that is legally enforceable and involves mutual promises or obligations.
What is a contract?
This famous company’s logo, a green twin-tailed mermaid, is protected by law
What is Starbucks?
What is the government?
This term refers to the idea that businesses should act in ways that benefit society, protect the environment, and consider the welfare of employees and communities, not just profit.
What is social responsibility?
This refers to practices and policies put in place to ensure that employees are protected from accidents and injuries at work.
What is job safety?
A case where a businesses can sue and be sued for a violation of a contract
What is a civil case?
A legal document given to the inventor of a product, giving the exclusive right to make, use, license, or sell the invention
What is a patent?
A business may rely on this document to secure business
What is a government contract?
The application of right and wrong, good and bad, in a business setting
What is Business Ethics?
This refers to the presence of people from different cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds in a group or organization.
What is cultural diversity?
A case where a company presses charges against a customer or employee caught shoplifting
What is a criminal case?
Exclusive right that protects the creators of original works of authorship, art, sculptures, literature, software, music, videos, video games, choreography, motion pictures, recordings, and others
What is a Copyright?
Money that individuals and businesses are required to pay to the government to fund public services and programs.
What are taxes?
A decision that involves a conflict of values; every potential course of action has some significant negative consequences
What is a Ethical Dilemma?
This refers to programs and initiatives that help employees maintain their physical, mental, and emotional health while at work.
What is an Employee Wellness program?
Enforces laws and government regulations
What is a Legal System?
This is a recognizable word, symbol, or design that identifies and distinguishes a company’s goods or services from those of other companies.
What is a trademark?
This money comes from local citizens and businesses
What is real estate property tax?
A written statement of the standards of behavior and ethical principles a company expects from its employees.
What is a Code of Ethics?
This federal agency is responsible for ensuring workplace safety by setting and enforcing standards to protect workers from hazards.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
Any business conducted that involves companies in more than one state
What is Interstate commerce?
Protection that lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years
What is a copyright?
Type of investment where you lend money to a government or corporation in exchange for regular interest payments and the return of the principal at maturity.
What is a bond?