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HRM and the Ethical Organization MCQ

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

Correct Answer: All of the above

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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

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Correct Answer: Beliefs or guiding principles that are core to the organisation and help steer the right actions

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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

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Correct Answer: It is ecocentric, eco-effective with 5Rs – rethink, reinvent, redesign, redirect and recover

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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

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Correct Answer: Because it is inclusive of all species

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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

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Correct Answer: The responsibility of an organisation to fulfil its economic, social and environmental obligations to all of its stakeholders

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. 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

Correct Answer: Have an interest or concern in the activities of an organisation

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Which of the following is not a recognised form of organisational justice?

Procedural justice

Interactional justice

Shareholder justice

Distributive justice

Answer

Correct Answer: Shareholder justice

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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

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Correct Answer: Rights listed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948

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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

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Correct Answer: Business, politics and private life share the same ethics as part of a moral community

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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

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Correct Answer: Elements of all of the above

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