Online Quiz 2 : Chapters 3 and 6 Critical Thinking, Ethics and Social Responsibility
A methodology of analysis that managers use to understand interconnected cause-and-effect relationships that change organizational behaviors and dynamics is:
- Personal mastery
- Mental modes
- Team learning
- Systems thinking
The Amazon Energy Budget System is a good example of:
- A causal loop system
- A runaway loop system
- A balancing loop system
- An exponential loop system
A systems pattern where an external or internal force restricts the ability to expand a service or product offering is:
- Escalation
- Shifting the burden
- Eroding goals
- Limits to growth
Price wars occur when one company lowers its prices to compete with another company in the same industry. The other company ends up reducing its prices to compete, the first company responds in kind again, and so on, until both companies are losing profits. This is a good example of which of the following systems archetypes?
- Limits to growth
- Tragedy of the commons
- Escalation
- Eroding goals
The concept that any change to a system, whether from external forces of from intentional decisions, takes time to have an effect, is referred to as which of the following:
- Spacing effects
- Continuity
- Delay
- Incrementality
_________________ may be described as the moral principles, values, and beliefs that govern group or individual behavior according to what is right or wrong.
- Social responsibility
- Duties
- Ethics
- Obligations
_______________________ occurs when the company’s culture impacts employee behavior in ways that are consistent with the organization’s mission and values.
- Mission-based management
- Vision-based management
- Values-based management
- Ethics-based management
Articles of Incorporation is a legal agreement between shareholders and management that determines the _________________________ of management in operating the organization.
- Standards of excellence
- Social responsibility
- Codes of conduct
- Fiduciary duty
A company that decides to stop purchasing from a supplier in a developing country that uses child labor only after an organized boycott of their company causes a significant decline in revenues is applying which of the following approaches to social responsibility?
- Accomodative
- Transparent
- Proactive
- Substantive
According to the text, which of the following is NOT one of the five aspirations that Clif Bar wishes to sustain?
- Brands
- Product
- Community
- Planet
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