Test I. True or False. Write T if the statement is true and F if false. 1. CSR only means that business should be business, but at the same time asks what sort of
businesses they should be.
2. The “How” emphasizes the fact that companies should make social and environmental
commitments in their actions.
3. For the last decade, governments all over the world have developed an ever wider range of
public policies for the fostering of socially responsible business practices.
4. Henry Sy states that profits can be viewed as “insurance premiums to pay for future costs of
running a business”.
5. Business, like all actors in society, has to operate in responsible manner, including through
respecting human rights.
Test II. Fill in the blanks. Write the answer on the space provided.
1. Nothing can replace business initiative when it comes when it comes to contributing through its action to build the CSR agenda, shape its understanding and frame it in a
.
2. First, they state that the concept of linked to CSR is accepted by few
stakeholder groups – especially NGOs – as they believe Voluntary CSR initiatives to be incapable of leading to the goal of sustainable development.
3. By applying the of CSR policies, it is possible to reorder the material
generated by identifying themes and instruments, and so we can systemize CSR public policies taking into account the players involved.
4. For the statistics resulting from such a study to be meaningful a is necessary.
5. Walter Schulz 1972, anchors responsibility in the freedom of the human person as , stretching it to an authority toward which one is responsible and to a very concrete
matter for which one is responsible.
Test III. Identification. Identify the following:
1. The variety of practices, measures and proposals that come under the term
CSR.
2. Aspects related to the interaction between the company and society,
especially through all the stakeholders who are affected by its activities.
3. Those approaches, in any of the management areas involved in CSR, that
have a component of enquiry, facilitating innovation or improving management
and shaping new relational dimensions.
4. Aspects of CSR related to the sphere of work and the quality of its
organization and development.
Responsibility”.
6. Address the political dimension of CSR and its application to business
administration and management in relation to the demands of civil society.
7. Deals with the themes and instruments used by government in their initiatives
to promote CSR.
8. According to this man, Corporate Social Responsibility across Europe
presents collective research on CSR in 23 European countries, all either EU
member states or in the process of joining.
9. This model refers to the Mediterranean countries.
10. This argument is also called “making the business case” for ethics and
Corporate Social Responsibility.
11. This is a term used to cover those practices and activities that are considered
importantly right or wrong.
12. According to him, responsibility has become a key concept of contemporary
morality, maybe even more important than integrity and fairness.
13. Is a systematic attempt to make sense of our individual and social moral
experiences, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern the
character traits concerning development in life.
14. It addresses environmentalecological responsibilities of businessman.
