Strayer BUS475 Full Course Latest 2018 October (NO week 3,4,& 7 Quiz)

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BUS475 Business and Society

Week 1 Discussion

In at least 50 words, explain your perspective on the relationship between Business & Society.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 2 Discussion

Define corporate social responsibility (CSR) in your own words. Find a current event in the past 6 months in which a business either went above & beyond to demonstrate CSR, OR sorely failed to demonstrate CSR. Post your URL link. Provide the name of the company & the good or bad deed. Do your findings change the way you will support the company in the future? Post must be at least 70 words (not including spaces & punctuation) in order to be eligible for full credit.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 3 Discussion

Have you witnessed unethical practices in the workplace? If so, please share your experience with the class and explain how this impacted your perception of the business? If not, please find a current event example of unethical business practices, share the article, and explain how you would have handled this situation differently. Post must be at least 70 words (not including spaces & punctuation) in order to be eligible for full credit.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 4 Discussion

Since you have a paper due this week, this week's Discussion will be flexible! Pin any topic you would like to discuss about the relationship between Business & Politics. Be sure to provide a link to an article or video to support your rationale. Post must be at least 50 words (not including spaces & punctuation) in order to be eligible for full credit.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 5 Discussion

Being a sustainable and environmentally conscious company is not only good for the planet, it is also a great way for companies to be more efficient, save money, and get an edge on the competition. There are many issues to consider when planning for sustainability, especially in a global environment where countries have vastly different laws as well as ecological concerns.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 6 Discussion

I am challenging you in a very different way this week..

In Chapter 11, we look at the role of Technology in Business and Society. We look at Cybersecurity, the loss of Privacy; we look at the Use of Robotics; B we look at Genetically Engineered Food; we look at Scientific breakthroughs in the Human Genome & Biotechnology...and so much more!

These are such important issues that we are all facing as a society, with so many awesome benefits and so many very real risks..

I want you to look at these issues and I want YOU to develop questions about these issues. What questions do you have about these technologies (If you are living in the current, you must have questions!)..

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 7 Discussion

Leveraging technology is a concept that is not going anywhere anytime soon. How does your organization guard against a breach of your personal information? Provide at least 2 examples and support them with evidence.

Compare and contrast your organization's approach to at least two other of your classmate's post.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 8 Discussion

Find a current event in the past 6 months - 1 year in which a business failed to protect consumers. This can include cyber security breaches, food contamination, unethical medical services, etc... Get creative! Post your URL link. Provide the name of the company & the issue. Do your findings change the way you will support the company in the future? Post must be at least 70 words (not including spaces & punctuation) in order to be eligible for full credit.

Respond to at least one of your classmates in at least 30 words (not including spaces & punctuation).

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 9 Discussion

Community relations are a large part of business outreach and growing a brand. If you've been to a community event such as a neighborhood festival, charity event, or 5K race, you've seen sponsorship banners and ads. Likewise, you might have seen ads from local businesses in the program at a school concert or other children's event. Find a business outreach event in YOUR LOCAL community. What business(es) is sponsoring the event? What is the purpose of the event? How do you think this event brings your community together?

Post must be at least 70 words (not including spaces & punctuation) in order to be eligible for full credit.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 10 Discussion

In your opinion, what are the most pressing and significant concerns facing communities today? Why do you think so?

Respond to at least two of your classmates. How would a business' community relations department address the concern that your classmate has posted? Support your reasoning with at least one quality reference.

BUS475 Business and Society

Week 11 Discussion

Over the course, a variety of concepts/topics were introduced. Select 2 to 3 of these topics and share any critical "takeaways."

What were some of the concepts that made you curious or prompted you to look at the relationship between business and society differently?

Post must be at least 70 words (not including spaces & punctuation) in order to be eligible for full credit.

Respond to at least one of your classmates in at least 30 words (not including spaces & punctuation).

BUS475 Business and Society

ASSIGNMENT 1 SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF ORGANIZATIONS

Due Week 4 and worth 290 points

This assignment can be a 3-5 minute video OR a 2-4 page written paper (your choice). See instructions below for further details.

According to the textbook, the current world economy is increasingly becoming integrated and interdependent; as a result, the relationship between business and society is becoming more complex. Please choose ONE of the following companies to research for this assignment or you may choose to write about the company you currently work for.

BUS475 Company List

Tesla

Wells Fargo

Hilton Hotels

Coca-Cola

Progressive Insurance

L'Oreal Personal Care Products

Uber

Kroger's Grocery

Nike

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Facebook

Humane Society

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of three to five (3-5) minutes OR write a two to four (2-4) page paper in which you:

1. Specify the nature, structure, and types of products or services of your company, and identify two (2) key factors in the organization’s external environment that can affect its success (i.e. competition, economy, weather, technology).

2. Suggest 2-3 ways in which the primary stakeholders (i.e. employees, consumers, suppliers, stockholder) can influence the organization’s profitability.

3. Specify one (1) controversial corporate social responsibility concern associated with your company.

4. Submit a reference page with at least three (3) quality references that you have used for this presentation / paper.

Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

1. Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

If you choose to submit a video, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a maximum three to five (3-5) minute dynamic video on the topics detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a two to four (2-4) page paper (excluding reference & cover pages) instead of the video submission.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial found in your online course shell

Be professional (dress professional, have a clean background, no background noise, be prepared)

Be articulate, clear, have your notes ready if you need to refer to them (practice makes perfect!)

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze the relationship between business and society, and the ways in which they are part of an interactive system.

Recommend ways stakeholders can influence the destiny of both business and society.

Analyze the various primary and secondary stakeholder groups, their roles, and relationships.

Compare and contrast the concepts of corporate social responsibility and citizenship.

Analyze ways ethical challenges affect the multiple functions of business.

Use technology and information resources to research issues in business and society.

Write clearly and concisely about business and society using proper writing mechanics.

BUS475 Business and Society

WEEK 9 ASSIGNMENT 2

As you have explored in this course, ongoing challenges in the business environment are mostly attributed to unethical business practices, failure to embrace technology advancements, and stiff competition among businesses. Imagine that you have been appointed as the Chief Compliance Officer of one of the below companies

****you may choose the same company you chose for your 1st assignment, BUT the content MUST adhere to THIS assignment rubric/questions**** DO NOT use the same content for this assignment as you did for your first assignment, as your paper will be 1) flagged, 2) it will not meet the requirements for this assignment!!

You must prepare a presentation for your suppliers regarding your Supplier Code of Conduct.

This assignment has two parts. You must submit both parts of the assignment to receive full credit.

PART 1)

For the first part, you are to choose a company and create a two to four (2-4) minute dynamic video on your company’s Code of Conduct. You may use any type of recording device you have to create this video (i.e. smartphone, laptop, webcam, or other type of video recorder). The specific points to cover for this video are listed below.

OR

As an alternative to the video, you may submit a one to three (1-3) page memo that details what you would say in such a presentation following the same prompts as the video assignment below.

Part 1: Video Presentation OR Paper Requirements

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of two to four (2-4) minutes OR write a one to three (1-3) page memo in which you:

1. List specific aspects & parts of your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct, and any changes that you have made in recent years.

2. In your own words, explain how each aspect of your Supplier Code of Conduct is committed to ethical business practices and society social responsibility.

If you choose the written paper instead of the video, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow our Strayer school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

PART 2)

For the second part of the assignment, you will create a presentation using PowerPoint (or other equivalent software) summarizing the important aspects and explanations regarding the supplier code of conduct that you communicated in your video/paper presentation to email to the suppliers after the meeting for future reference. The specific points to cover are listed below.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Once you are ready to upload your video to Blackboard, view the Kaltura video tutorial found in your online course shell (Week 9). Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name “Challenges in the Business Environment”

Tags: BUS475, Business Environment

Description: First Name, Last Name “ BUS475 Assignment 2 (Date Uploaded ex. 1-14-2018)

Part 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Create a four to six (4-6) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

1. Summarize your chosen company’s Supplier Code of Conduct information.

2. Discuss your company’ s stance on each of the following areas:

a. Empowering Workers

b. Labor and Human Rights

c. Health and Safety

d. The Environment

e. Accountability

3. Identify the key ways that your company’s Code of Conduct has changed in recent years (i.e. have there been any improvements made).

4. Examine the manner in which your company’s Supplier Code of Conduct helps the organization operate as a socially responsible organization.

5. Provide detailed speaker notes of what you would say if you were delivering the presentation.

6. Submit a reference page with at least two (2) quality references from the past 2 years that you have used for this presentation / paper. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.


Week 1 Quiz

• Question 1 Which statement is not correct about the business-society interdependence?

• Question 2 The instrumental argument says stakeholder management is:

• Question 3 What kind of power might a local community use to influence a company's decisions?

• Question 4

Which of the following is not considered to be a nonmarket stakeholder?

• Question 5

Which argument says that stakeholder management realistically depicts how companies really work?

• Question 6

Customers can exercise economic stakeholder power by:

• Question 7

All of the following are external stakeholders of the firm except:

• Question 8

Corporations that run their operations according to the stakeholder theory of the firm create value by:

• Question 9

Stakeholders have been able to form international coalitions more successfully through use of:

• Question 10

Departments, or offices, within an organization that reach across the dividing line that separates the company from groups and people in society are:

Week 2 Quiz

• Question 1

BSR (formerly Business for Social Responsibility) helps its 300 member companies:

• Question 2

Reason(s) for adopting an enlightened self-interest approach is (are):

• Question 3

Modern corporations should be socially responsible because they:

• Question 4

Global social audit standards concentrate on:

• Question 5

Stakeholder partnerships, high-tech communication networks, and sustainability audits are examples of:

• Question 6

The costs of corporate social responsibility may ultimately be passed on to the:

• Question 7

Managers responding to the needs of the local education system as a normal or routine aspect of its operations is an example of an organization in the:

• Question 8

Some companies have created a department of corporate citizenship to:

• Question 9

When a company puts its commitment to social and environmental responsibility into practice worldwide, not only locally or regionally it is called:

• Question 10

The iron law of responsibility says that:

Week 3 Quiz

Question 1

Cross-cultural contradictions arise due to:

Question 2

Which of the following examples best illustrate an ethics issue based on cross-cultural contradictions?

Question 3

According to an annual Gallup poll, which occupation was consistently ranked the highest for honesty and ethics?

Question 4

Which statement characterizes the moral reasoning typically found in a child?

Question 5

People everywhere depend on ethical systems to tell them whether their actions are:

Question 6

All of the following values are present in most ethical decisions except:

Question 7

A just or fair ethical decision occurs when:

Question 8

As an additional employee benefit to promote spirituality, companies have begun to provide employees with the services of:

Question 9

A recent study found that, compared to the 1980s, managers today place what importance on moral values, such as honesty and forgiveness?

Question 10

Under the U.S. Corporate Sentencing Guidelines, if a firm has developed a strong ethics program, corporate executives found guilty of criminal activity may have their sentence:

Week 4 Quiz

Question 1

Around the world, government:

Question 2

Which of these cost-savings measures saved U.S. regulatory agencies nearly $2 billion since 2011?

Question 3

When a government orders companies not to conduct business in another country because of a war, human rights violations, or lack of a legitimate government; these orders are called:

Question 4

Managers' understanding of government regulations is:

Question 5

The Mullahs in Iran is an example of the power of government derived from:

Question 6

Which of the following represents a structural remedy for an antitrust violation?

Question 7

When the market fails to adjust for the full costs of a firm's behavior, this is called:

Question 8

European Union regulators accused Uber of engaging in:

Question 9

Government's role is to create and enforce laws that:

Question 10

Deregulation is often:

Week 5 Quiz

• Question 1

The commitments of the Convention on Biological Diversity include:

• Question 2

Which pattern of consumption is recommended to reduce humanity's global footprint?

• Question 3

A thin layer of gas that protects the earth from excessive ultraviolet radiation from the sun is:

• Question 4

Scientists believe that if the Montreal Protocol is honored the ozone layer will recover by:

• Question 5

Which of these factors has accelerated the current ecological crisis?

• Question 6

A shared resource, such as land, air, or water, that a group of people uses collectively is a(n):

Selected Answer:

• Question 7

Reasons for the destruction of rain forests include:

• Question 8

The Sustainability Consortium organized to advance life-cycle analysis for thousands of products includes all of the following companies except:

• Question 9

Which of the following statements is not true about arable land?

• Question 10 The most successful global businesses in coming years will be those companies that:

Week 6 Quiz

• Question 1

We are currently in which phase in the development of technology?

• Question 2

Which of the following is not a potential source of personal private data?

• Question 3

The idea that every distribution channel must work together to deliver a unified and consistent customer experience is called:

• Question 4

The self-reinforcing feature of technology means that:

• Question 5

In the nomadic-agrarian phase of technology in society, people:

• Question 6

The place where information is stored, ideas are described, and communication takes place in and through an electronic network of linked systems is called:

• Question 7

Which of the following is not true about the service phase of technology?

• Question 8

The practice of using fake business emails in order to trick users into divulging personal data, such as usernames and passwords, is called:

• Question 9

In 2015, 2 billion people worldwide used social networking sites:

• Question 10

This term refers to the practical applications of science and knowledge to commercial and organizational activities.

Week 7 Quiz

Question 1

Which website received a favorable review because they limited the ability of hackers to take advantage of one another?

Question 2

Which of these statements is (are) true about the group known as Anonymous?

Question 3

Downloading illegal files, spreading computer viruses, and stealing from online bank accounts is collectively referred to as:

Question 4

Increased cyber activity by which country prompted NATO officials to brand them as "patriotic hackers"?

Question 5

Which of these actions have Western nations taken to fight cybercrime?

Question 6

Software piracy is a major problem in which part of the world?

Question 7

This international gathering brought together leaders from the United States and dozens of European countries to address the global nature of cyberattacks:

Question 8

Over time the role of the CIO:

Question 9 Cybersecurity experts recommend including which essential elements for an incident-response plan for cyberattacks?

Question 10 MIT researchers determined that 90 percent of shopper's credit-card transactions could be used to:

Week 8 Quiz

Question 1

Online shoppers always run the risk that:

Question 2

The act that requires lenders to inform borrowers of the annual rate of interest to be charged, plus related fees and services charges is called:

Question 3

When businesses adopt voluntary policies for protecting the privacy of individuals' information disclosed during electronic transactions, this is an example of:

Question 4

An identifying marker placed on a user's computer hard drive during visits in order to identify the user during each subsequent visit and to build profiles of their behavior over time is called a:

Question 5

Advertising that is targeted to particular customers, based on their observed online behavior, is called:

Question 6

The law requiring that toys and infant products be tested before sale is called the:

Question 7

Which of these is not a current consumer law that protects individual privacy?

Question 8

Which of the following statements is not true about the organization Consumer Reports?

Question 9

Consumers owe more money on their home loans (mortgages) than on any other kind of household debt. After mortgages, what makes up the largest portion of household debt?

Question 10

In the United States, which of the following agencies enforces the laws prohibiting deceptive advertising?

Week 9 Quiz

Question 1

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), passed in 1993:

Question 2

Which of the following is not true about occupational segregation?

Question 3

Which of these statements is true regarding women in the United States workforce?

Question 4

According to a Forbes study, what percentage of executives agreed that diversity encourages innovation?

Question 5

Why does a diverse and inclusive workforce benefit a firm supporting a global market?

Question 6

Which of the following actions can a company take to effectively manage diversity and inclusion?

Question 7

How do effective diversity and inclusion programs typically impact a firm's reputation?

Question 8

Which ethnic group, as defined by the U.S. Census, represents the fastest-growing segment of the labor force?

Question 9

Among minority-owned firms in the mid-2010s, the most numerous were those owned by:

Question 10

Racial harassment is illegal under:

Week 10 Quiz

Question 1

Which organization(s) have taken the lead in revitalizing neighborhoods?

Question 2

Factor conditions are strategic contributions focusing on:

Question 3

American Express established a consulting program that sent expert teams of employees into nonprofits to solve organizational problems. This can be considered an example of:

Question 4

Minority enterprises often do business in locations with:

Question 5

Which of the following gives the most in-kind contributions?

Question 6

Another term for corporate giving is corporate:

Question 7

Which of these statements is (are) true regarding minority, women and disabled veteran-owned firms?

Question 8

According to a Harvard Business Review study, which of the following is not an area in which corporate contributions are most likely to enhance a company's competitiveness?

Question 9

Which type of business community consists of people who work near the company?

Question 10

How do companies encourage their employees to volunteer their time?

COMPREHENSIVE EXAM

Question 1

The fiduciary duty of managers benefits a firm's:

Question 2

Stakeholder engagement is, at its core, a:

Question 3

Over time, the nature of business's relationship with its stakeholders often:

Question 4

Positive reputation can be valued as an intangible corporate:

Question 5

The purpose of the World Trade Organization is to:

Question 6

A conception of right and wrong is:

Question 7

Which ethical criterion is described by the idea that a company should strive for efficiency?

Question 8

Patterns of government taxing and spending that are intended to stimulate or support the economy are:

Question 9

A company that builds stakeholder coalitions to influence government is using which strategy?

Question 10

The idea that companies have a continuing responsibility for the environmental impact of their products or services, even after they are sold is called:

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