Assignment: EXAM2 SOC103 LATEST
Assignment: EXAM2 SOC103 LATEST
Assignment: EXAM2 SOC103 LATEST
Q1. How much of pretax profits may businesses in the United States declare as tax-deductible contributions?
a. 2%
b. 5%
c. 10%
d. 20%
e. None
Q2. How could the value of employee volunteer programs be enhanced for a firm to better align these programs with strategic philanthropy goals?
a. Firms could heavily advertise their volunteer efforts to create a more favorable public image.
b. Volunteer programs could be oriented to benefit the immediate community surrounding the firm.
c. Programs should emphasize synergies between employees’ current and future job-related aptitudes and nonprofit needs.
d. Volunteer programs should be mandatory for all employees so as to encourage all employees to think about social causes.
e. Programs could be geared toward improving the morale of the employees who participate.
Q3. You are the Director of Social Responsibility for a major athletic shoe and apparel company. Which of the following options would most closely fulfill the objectives of strategic social responsibility for your company?
a. Allowing employees to volunteer at a local charity of choice on company time for one hour per week
b. Donating athletic shoes to a professional athletic team in order to increase the company’s exposure
c. Giving athletic shoes and apparel to disadvantaged youths
d. Having employees volunteer at a youth shelter and delivering athletic shoes for their sports programs
e. Sponsoring a charity-oriented golf tournament by donating monetary funds to the cause
Q4. What type of document is likely to be the most reliable and objective source of information in a social audit?
a. Externally generated and circulated document from an external stakeholder group
b. Internally generated and externally circulated document regarding social responsibility activities
c. Internally generated and circulated document about the company’s social responsibilities
d. Report about the volunteer hours of staff members that is internally generated
e. Internally and externally generated documents are usually equally reliable because it is difficult to falsify these records
Q5. Which of the following best defines the natural environment from a business perspective?
a. Any entity or combination of entities that has an impact on the way that organizations conduct their business
b. The physical world, including all biological entities, as well as the interaction between nature and individuals, organizations, and business strategies
c. Any resource that is found in limited quantity and requires protection through national or state regulation
d. The physical world including all biological and geological entities
e. Plants, animals, human beings, oceans and other waterways, land, and the atmosphere
Q6. What is the real difficulty in conducting a risk analysis?
a. Measuring the costs and benefits of environmental decisions, especially in the eyes of interested stakeholders
b. Identifying which stakeholder groups have concerns about various environmental issues
c. Conducting government or industry research as part of the response to environmental concerns
d. Identifying the environmental issues that might be related to any one type of company or product
e. Determining the specific environmental factors that could impact a business decision
Q7. Which of the following best describes the reasons that companies want to conduct social audits?
a. Companies exceed their legally prescribed duties and conduct social audits for a variety of reasons that lie along a vast spectrum.
b. A firm may want an official audit so it will be able to project a good image to hide corrupt ways.
c. A company may want to make its closest competitors look bad in order to attract more customers and increase market share.
d. Firms are genuinely interested in understanding performance in order to improve and achieve the best social performance possible.
e. A company may simply feel pressure to conduct an audit on its social responsibilities because many other companies are doing it.
Q8. What is the current trend concerning monitoring employee communications in the workplace?
a. The courts have ruled that monitoring employee communications, such as phone calls and e-mails, is unconstitutional.
b. Many companies are now monitoring employee communications including phone calls, e-mails, and Internet usage.
c. Few companies are monitoring unacceptable uses of technology by their employees because these abuses are nearly impossible to detect.
d. Fewer companies are monitoring employee communications because its sends a message of a lack of trust.
e. Companies are cutting back on the number of employees having access to computers in order to limit abuses of the Internet and e-mail.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
- The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
- Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
- Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
- One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
- I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
- Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
- In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
- Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
- Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
- Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
- Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
- I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
- I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
- As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
- It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
- For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
- Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
- Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
- Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
- The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
- Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
- If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
- I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
- As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
- Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
- Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
- Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.
