Social Responsibility & Ethics
NCERT Solution
MCQ Answers
Question 1: Social responsibility is
- Same as legal responsibility
- Broader than legal responsibility
- Narrower than legal responsibility
- None of them
Answer: (b) Broader than legal responsibility
Question 2: If business is to operate in a society which is full of diverse and complicated problems, it may have
- Little chance of success
- Great chance of success
- Little chance of failure
- No relation with success or failure
Answer: (a) Little chance of success
Question 3: Business people have the skills to solve
- All social problems
- Some social problems
- No social problems
- All economic problems
Answer: (c) No social problems
Question 4: That an enterprise must behave as a good citizen is an example of its responsibility towards
- Owners
- Workers
- Consumers
- Community
Answer: (d) Community
Question 5: Environmental protection can best be done by the efforts of
- Business people
- Government
- Scientists
- All the people
Answer: (d) All the people
Question 6:Carbon monoxide emitted by automobiles directly contributes to
- Water pollution
- Noise pollution
- Land pollution
- Air pollution
Answer: (d) Air pollution
Question 7: Which of the following can explain the need for pollution control?
- Cost savings
- Reduced risk of liability
- Reduction of health hazards
- All of them
Answer: (d) All of them
Question 8: Which of the following is capable of doing maximum good to society?
- Business success
- Laws and regulations
- Ethics
- Professional management
Answer: (c) Ethics
Question 9: Ethics is important for
- Top management
- Middle-level managers
- Non-managerial employees
- All of them
Answer: (d) All of them
Question 10: Which of the following alone can ensure effective ethics programme in a business enterprise?
- Publication of a code
- Involvement of employees
- Establishment of compliance mechanisms
- None of them
Answer: (b) Involvement of employees