1. ’What is hurricane to Lilliputians is breeze to Gulliver’: What bearing this statement has for organizational change?
a) Replication may create more problems than it solves b) Transfer experiment costs nothing c) Import-export exercise is good
d) Reflects features of corporate cultural change.
2.Business ethics seeks to ensure that companies achieve certain moral standards that society calls for ……. in accordance with their own organisational values and beliefs.
a) Duties b) Compliance c) Involvement d) Performance
3..At the very foundation of business ethics is the ………. to treating customers, employees, investors as partners in progress.
a) Eagerness b)Interest c) Commitment d) Involvement
4. All of the following except one are the areas in which Culture-ethics overlap.
a) Artefacts in the form of ethical codes b) Linkages between ethics, organizational control mechanisms and individuality c) Ethical choices are implied by values d) Collective responsibility
5. …………focuses on nurturing ethical leadership and creating a positive organisational culture that encourages professional business conduct.
a) Business ethics b) Marketing strategy c) Methods of accounting
d) Personnel policies.
6. ………..promotes transparency and ensures mechanisms are in place to mitigate, detect and deal with issues such as corruption, conflicts of interest and employee misconduct.
a) Organizational design b) Business ethics c) Personnel practices. d) Change orientation
7. Which one of the following, as a minimum, defines Business Ethics? adequately?
a) Consumers’ interest b) Environmental protection c)Compliance with applicable laws and regulations d) Suppliers’ interest
8. Business ethics takes Corporate obligation further to fulfill social expectations as well as legal compliance through the identification of the Company’s role as a
a) Just employer b) Best seller c) Good businessman d) Corporate citizen
9. All Except one describe how a
corporation may be socially responsible.
a) As a generator of wealth b) As corporation of
producer c) As Resource Manager d) Corporation as Social designer.
10. All Except one describe how a corporation may be socially responsible.
a) Corporation as investment b) Corporation whose solvency does not become suspect c) Corporation as competitor d) Corporation as Neighbour
11 …………. is one who heeds the fundamental moral rules of society and shuns deception, corruption and the like
a) Corporation as producer b) Corporation as Resource Manager c) Corporation as a citizen d) Corporation as Investment.
12. ……… is one who decides ‘how to produce what he sells, in the purest and cheapest forms’
a) Corporation as Resource Manager b) Corporation as Investment c) Corporation as a citizen d) Corporation as producer
13. Which one of the following is the single greatest influence in shaping a corporate culture?
a) Business environment b) Social system c) Founders d) Political system
14. An organization which shuns discrimination and remains concerned with safety of work environment and emotional well-being of employees
a) Corporation as citizen b) Corporation as employer c) Corporation as Resource manager. d) Corporation as an Investment.
15. Besides esthetics of land management, the Corporation as ………
does not unduly contribute to the depletion of resources.
a) An Investment b) Social designer c) Resource manager
d) As Citizen.
16. To be concerned with pollution and to conduct safe and quite operations are the characteristic features of a Corporation …….
a) As a producer b) Social designer c) Resource Manager
d) As Neighbour.
17. Safeguarding the investors’ interests and making full and fair disclosures of its economic conditions makes a Corporation being called
a) As investment. b) As competitor c) As social designer
d) As Resource manager.
18. A Corporation as …….. does not engage in unfair competition nor welcome restrictions of competition.
a) Producer b) Competitor c) Neighbour d) Social designer.
19. Besides being innovative, a corporation as …………. is responsive to the introduction of new products and methods.
a) Producer b) Competitor c) Social designer d) Neighbour
20. Business ethics covered by the broader umbrella of social responsibility call for improvement in the ………….. both within and outside the factory gate.
a) Economic performance b) Standards of behaviour
c) Social performance d) Quality of life
21. A set of preferences for the conduct of business activity is called
a) A business recipe b) Climate c) Strategy d) Policy
22. Who said that ‘business environment is the single greatest influence in shaping a corporate culture’?
a) Burke b) Deal and Kennedy c) Kurt Lewin d) Beyer and Trice.
23. What we call a work hard/play hard culture relates to
a) Finance b) Intramural activities c) Selling d) Extramural activities.
24. What is meant by ‘bet-your company culture?
a) Vacillation b) Procrastination c) Action precedes decision
d) Decision precedes action.
25.. All are strategies for implementing cultural change EXCEPT one.
a) Adjudicative b) Conciliative c)Aggressive d) Indoctrinative
26. Of the four strategies for implementing cultural change, three are
Aggressive, Conciliative, Indoctrinative, which one is the other?
a) Adjudicative b) Corrosive c) Consultative d) Confrontational
27. Which strategy for cultural change intends to deauthenticate the existing culture, to undermine its coherency and dissolve old habits.
a) Corrosive b) Conciliative c) Aggressive d) Indoctrinative
28. Which one of the strategies of cultural change leads to questioning of cherished identity, values and assumptions.
a) Indoctrinative b) Conciliative c) Corrosive d) Aggressive
29. With emphasis on reason rather than emotion, ushering in of new culture can be ensured without confrontation with the old.
a) Conciliative b) Corrosive c) Indoctrinative d) Aggressive