Labor abuses in the supply chain

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1. Which of the following is not generally considered an aspect of Operations Management?

a. Securing Financial Resources to buy necessary equipment

b. Managing the inventory needed to produce goods

c. interviewing and hiring the necessary staff to operate machinery at a factory

d. Making recommendations to acquire new tools and machinery to increase production capacity

2. Which of the following is an indication that an organization is using a Utilitarian ethics system?

a. Uses a foreign low cost supplier that allows under age workers.

b. Lays off workers when they lose a large contract

c. Hires workers at the minimum wage permissible by law

d. Moves its operation to a state that provides them with Tax-free operation for 5 years

3. Which of the following is true of the supply chain?

a. Operations management must understand local and global trends

b. Operations management does not need to understand inventory levels

c. Operations management does not need to understand customer demand

d. Operations management is not responsible for identifying vendors

4. An Operations Management professional should have all of the following traits except:

a. Instant Entitlement Bias

b. Time Mangement

c. Project Management

d. An understanding of all of the various processes of the company

5. Reasons that companies should revisit their supplier contracts include:

a. Companies do not need to require ongoing certifications by suppliers

b. to determine how they can be enhanced to improve transparency between the parties and better allocate risk to help prevent supply chain abuses.

c. align their human resources department with Operations

d. internal codes of conduct and their supplier codes of conduct do not need to be included.

6. Labor abuses in the supply chain:

a. does not cause the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to block imports produced with forced or indentured or labor pursuant to the U.S. Tariff Act.

b. does not cause The U.S. Department of Labor to use the "hot goods" provision, to enjoin shipments of goods

c. should be ignored.

d. can cause a delay in bringing a product to market.

7. Those who critique global outsourcing list all of the following reasons except:

a. Quality, safety and security of goods and services may suffer

b. It enables businesses to operate with weaker labor and environmental safeguards

c. It leads to societal damage

d. Laws in some of those countries are not in line with our local laws

8. All of the following are among the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact except:

a. Businesses should not engage in any form of corruption including bribery

b. Businesses should develop a Business Conduct Policy that is approved by the United Nations

c. Businesses should support initiatives that promote greater environmental responsibility

d. Businesses should ensure there is no discrimination in the workplace

9. John works as an Operations Manager for a company that makes rechargeable flashlights and that adopts a Utilitarian Ethics System. The company is focused on increasing its profitability year over year. One of his suppliers offered him a different type battery for his flashlights that is half the cost but it lasts only 18 months as opposed to the one they currently use that lasts for 36 months. The flashlights are guaranteed for only one year. Also, the product description does not specify how long the battery should last. What do you think John would do based on the above?

a. Accept the offer of the new type battery and lower the price of the flashlights

b. Accept the offer of the new type battery and add a disclaimer that the battery lasts for only 18 months

c. Accept the offer of the new type battery

d. Reject the offer of the new type battery

10. Lisa is a Supply Chain Manager. The company she works for recently adopted a Green initiative to recycle 40% of its Waste. Since the process of recycling is labor intensive, Lisa instructed her staff that once they reached the required 40%, they can stop recycling. Given the above, what would best describe Lisa?

a. Lisa does not understand the Green initiative for the company

b. Lisa is not engaged in her job

c. Lisa is using a consequentialist framework

d. Lisa does not comply with new company policies.

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