Flashcards in Chapter 3 Notes Deck (45)
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What is the triple bottom line?
People, Planet and Profit
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What does triple bottom line measure?
Social, Environental, and Financial Performance
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a systematic assessment of a company's performance in implementing socially responsible programs, often based on predefined goals.
Social Audit
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Born 1977-1989
Generation Y
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Born 1990-2000
Generation Z
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the people whose interests are affected by an organization's activities.
Stakeholders
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Who are the Internal Stakeholders?
Employees, Owners and Board of Directors
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What are External Stakeholders?
General and Task Environment
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consist of all those who can claim an organization as their legal property
Owner
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A company that is half owned by employees
Joint Owners
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Who elects the board of directors?
Stockholders
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Who's in charge of setting the organization's strategic goals and approving major decisions of salaries of top management?
Board of Directors
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organizations that COMPETE for customers or resources
Competitors
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person or an organization that PROVIDES supplies—that is, raw materials, services, equipment, labor, or energy—to other organizations
Suppliers
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a person or an organization that HELPS another organization SELL its goods and services to customers.
Distributor
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describes the relationship of two organizations who JOIN FORCES to achieve advantages neither can perform as well alone.
Strategic Allies
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Taking back the tax breaks when firms don't deliver promised jobs
Clawback
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raising money for a project or venture by obtaining many small amounts of money from many people
Crowdfunding
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REGULATORY agencies that establish ground rules under which organizations may operate
Government regulators
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GROUPS whose members try to influence specific issues
Special-interest groups
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consist of the GENERAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS and trends—unemployment, inflation, interest rates, economic growth—that may affect an organization's performance.
Economic forces
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NEW developments in methods for transforming resources into goods or services.
Technological Forces
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Current trends that can affect an organization
Sociocultural Forces
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influences on an organization arising from changes in the characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, or ethnic origin
Demographic Forces
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changes in the way POLITICS shape laws and laws shape the opportunities for and threats to an organization.
Political-Legal Forces
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changes in the economic, political, legal, and technological global system that may affect an organization.
International Forces
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situation in which you have to decide whether to pursue an action that benefit you or your organization but that is unethical or illegal.
Ethical Dilemma
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pattern of values in an organization
Value System
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relatively permanent and deeply held underlying beliefs and attitudes that help determine a person's behavior
Values
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guided by what will result in the GREATEST GOOD for the GREATEST NUMBER of people
Utilitarian Approach
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guided by what will result in the INDIVIDUAL's best long-term interests, which ultimately are in everyone's self-interest
Individual Approach
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guided by respect for the fundamental rights of human beings
Moral-Rights approach
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guided by respect for impartial standards of FAIRNESS and EQUITY
Justice Approach
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illegal trading of a company's stock by people using confidential company information
Insider Trading
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3 Levels of personal moral development
Preconventional, Conventional, Post Conventional
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Follows rules
Preconventional
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Follow expectations of others
Conventional
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Guided by internal values
Postconventional
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represents employees' perceptions about the extent to which work environments support ethical behavior
Ethical Climate
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consists of a formal written set of ethical standards guiding an organization's actions.
Code of Ethics
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employee, or even an outside consultant, who reports organizational misconduct to the public
Whistle-blower
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manager's duty to take actions that will benefit the interests of society as well as of the organization
Social Responsibility
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notion that corporations are expected to go above and beyond following the law and making a profit
Corporate social responsibility
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value of natural resources, such as topsoil, air, water, and genetic diversity, which humans depend on
Natural capital
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