Business Organizations Have Long Recognized That Primarily Using Financial Measures

question 51

Multiple Choice

Business organizations have long recognized that primarily using financial measures such as sales or profitability to measure performance often fails to provide information about the factors that result in success. One of these factors is sustainability. Which of the following is not a pillar of sustainability identified in chapter 5?

• A) Phycological
• B) Economic
• C) Social
• D) Environmental

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Definitions:

Cleavage

In geology, the tendency of a mineral to break along flat, parallel surfaces determined by its crystal structure.

Hornfels

A hard, fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the contact metamorphism of clay-rich or silicate rocks.

Thrust Fault

A type of fault in which the upper block, above the fault plane, moves up and over the lower block.

Anticline

A type of fold in sedimentary rocks that resembles an arch, with the oldest rock layers at its core, indicative of compressional tectonic forces.