IBM Manager Celia Moore Coordinates IBM's Long-Standing "Reinventing Education" Program

question 93

Multiple Choice

IBM manager Celia Moore coordinates IBM's long-standing "Reinventing Education" program that involves intensive research into how educational institutions can use the fruits of new technologies to transform what they do. In the process, the program is actually helping to shape a market of significant interest to IBM. "We see the program very much as an investment, rather than handing out money," says Moore. The existence of this program indicates that IBM has a(n) ________ orientation.

• A) environmental
• B) financial bottom line
• C) selling
• D) production
• E) triple-bottom-line

Identify the crucial role of management in setting ethical standards and expectations in the workplace.

Analyze different philosophical views on the role of business in society, including profit maximization and duty to stakeholders.

Grasp the foundational ethical theories, including duty-based ethics, outcome-based ethics, and the principle of rights theory.

Distinguish between legal compliance and ethical decision-making beyond the law.

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Definitions:

Prototype Theory

is a model of categorization in cognitive science, where members of a category are assessed by their resemblance to a typical member or prototype of that category.

Schema Theory

A theory of attention that claims unattended information is never perceived.

Knowledge-based Theory

A theory suggesting that organizations rely on their knowledge and expertise to create competitive advantage and innovate.

Category's Essence

The fundamental qualities that define a particular group or class of objects, believed to determine its membership.