Human Resource Management: Strategic and International Perspectives
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Multiple Choice Quiz
1. What do we mean by ethics?
- Moral judgements
- Determinants of what is right or wrong
- Rules or standards governing a profession
- Elements of all of the above
Answer:
d. Elements of all of the above
2. Which statement best describes ethics in business?
- Business is outside the realm of ethical enquiry and morally neutral or amoral
- Ethics in business do exist but differ from ethics in other spheres and may appear amoral in other spheres
- Business, politics and private life share the same ethics as part of a moral community
- None of the above
Answer:
c. Business, politics and private life share the same ethics as part of a moral community
3. What are Human Rights?
- Special privileges awarded to criminals and prisoners
- What the European Parliament decides is right
- Rights listed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948
- Rules designed to frustrate legal proceedings
Answer:
c. Rights listed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948
4. Which of the following is not a recognised form of organisational justice?
- Procedural justice
- Interactional justice
- Shareholder justice
- Distributive justice
Answer:
c. Shareholder justice
5. Stakeholders are the individuals or groups who:
- Are the shareholders in key competitors
- Determine the strategy of the organisation
- Dominate the operational issues in the organisation
- Have an interest or concern in the activities of an organisation
Answer:
d. Have an interest or concern in the activities of an organisation
6. What do we mean by Corporate Social Responsibility?
- The responsibility of an organisation to use its resources solely to increase profits
- The responsibility of an organisation to fulfil its economic, social and environmental obligations to all of its stakeholders
- The responsibility of an organisation to donate any excess profits to charities and community organisations
- The responsibility of an organisation to protect the environment at all costs
Answer:
b. The responsibility of an organisation to fulfil its economic, social and environmental obligations to all of its stakeholders
7. Why is the sustainability debate so important?
- Because it is inclusive of all species
- Because it excludes some species
- Because it is specifically about organisation survival
- Because it relates only to human beings
Answer:
a. Because it is inclusive of all species
8. What are some of the elements of a transformational sustainability strategy?
- It is ecocentric, eco-efficient, with 5Rs – rethink, reinvent, redesign, redirect and recover
- It is anthropocentric, eco-effective, with 5Rs – rethink, reinvent, redesign, redirect and recover
- It is ecocentric, eco-effective with 5Rs – reduce, reuse, repair, recycle and regulate
- It is ecocentric, eco-effective with 5Rs – rethink, reinvent, redesign, redirect and recover
Answer:
d. It is ecocentric, eco-effective with 5Rs – rethink, reinvent, redesign, redirect and recover
9. What are Organisational Values?
- Rules imposed by the Management Team
- Beliefs or guiding principles that are core to the organisation and help steer the right actions
- The collective value of the organisation’s assets
- A statement setting out the organisation’s strategy
Answer:
b. Beliefs or guiding principles that are core to the organisation and help steer the right actions
10. Why is HRM in a good position to integrate ethics, justice, CSR and sustainability into organisations?
- Because of the responsibilities that HRM has for the key processes and practices in an organisation
- Because of the HRM role in promoting fairness and justice in an organisation
- Because of the ethical component set out in HRM professional standards and codes of conduct
- All of the above
Answer:
d. All of the above