writing exam of MGM business and society

MGM 360- Business and Society Exam 1—Fall 2015

Instructions: This take home exam is due at 11:55 PM on October 13th in the DropBox. All exams must be submitted in a MSWord file, single-spaced, 12-pt Times New Roman font. Use the header feature in MSWord to put your name in the top- right hand corner. Bring a hardcopy (printed out) exam to class on October 14th. Writing: These are detailed questions (with the exception of the first question) that require you to synthesize information and present it in an organized manner. Therefore, each response should have a thesis statement, an introduction, development of the points you would like to make, a summary and a conclusion. You will be graded on your writing, including organization, coherence and quality of your responses. ABSOLUTELY NO LATE EXAMS WILL BE ACCEPTED. EXAMS NOT SUBMITTED WILL RECEIVE A GRADE OF ZERO. Chapter 1 (5) Why is the BGS field important to managers? (20) Next, discuss how the concept of corporate responsibility could relate to the Volkswagen diesel car case. To do this, find three to five short news articles on the current issues the VW is facing. These could (should) include the issues we discussed in class, such as harm to customers, shareholders, the environment; VW’s handling of some of these news events. Describe the issues and answer these questions: a) What issues were ethical or unethical and why? b) How did the public realize VW had lied about following current laws? c) How responsive has VW been to their critics? Chapter 2 (25) In the external environments of business, discuss the technological environment and the cultural environment. In the cultural environment be sure to include a discussion of postmaterialism values. Next, find one WSJ article that relates to each of these external environments and briefly describe how the article applies to each. Chapter 3 (25) Discuss the two perspectives of Business Power. Chapter 4 (25 points). Discuss the critics of business as described in Chapter 4. You must discuss: the origins of critical attitudes toward business, the American critique of business, and the global critics of business.