M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2017.
Fourth Semester
BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
(Common for M.B.A. (G)/M.B.A.
(CBCS 2013 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A x 3 15)
Answer all questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. What is deontological ethics?
2. What is corporate ethics?
3. What is 'moral responsibility'?
4. What is a 'code of conduct'?
5. What is CSR audit?
Part B x 10 50)
Answer all questions choosing either or
All questions carry equal marks.
6. Discuss in brief the scope of ethics in business.
Or
What is Aristotle's general theory of why virtues are
virtuous?
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7. What are the various ethical issues in HRM?
Or
Describe the problems/unethical issues involved in
protecting the investors' tights.
8. Evaluate the effectiveness of stakeholder theory of
corporate governance in the light of private sector
organizations in India.
Or
Discuss the main issues involved in corporate
governance in India.
9. Write a brief comparison to Japanese model of
corporate governance and Indian model of corporate
governance.
Or
What are the reasons for corporate mis-governance
in India by the Board of Directors in spite of laws
and enactments by the Government?
10. Describe the impact of CSR on economic issues.
Or
What is the role and policy of the Government of
India in promoting CSR?
Part C x 10 10)
Compulsory.
11. CSR at Bank of India
At Bank of India, corporate social responsibility is
basically the care and concern for the deprived in
particular and the community at large. Social
responsibility is a function of the banking industry where
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by the Bank focuses on those below poverty line and the
communities that qualify for schematic lending under the
various government sponsored programs. The focus is on
ensuring that they become self-sufficient and can achieve
the desired goals to improve their living standards. The
Bank has a policy of recruiting the
blind and disabled and also has a committee to monitor
and prevent any sexual harassment at the work place.
Employees always volunteer to support NGOs in noble
causes such as Eye donations! Blood donation camps.
The top management not only involves in such a cause
but also actively supports it. Well known NGOs who have
been on the scene for quite a number of years and doing
services to the community over the years are supported in
their cause. The programs are monitored by the zonal
offices spread over 43 zones that ensure the end of the
funds donated to the NGOs. The relationship with some
of the NOOs is on a continuous basis like that with the
cancer foundation. The Bank is truly a bank of India, as
the name indicates, with over 2600 branches and 43 zonal
offices and has a good representation both in metro,
urban and rural India It is, therefore, natural that CSR
should spread across state borders and is not limited to
where the Bank is headquartered.
Business ethics and governance are separate issues. The
money contributed towards CSR activities are monitored
by the concerned Zonal offices and the NGOs are asked to
submit receipts and photographs justifying end use of
funds. Employees have always contributed whenever
there has been a major disaster by donating a day's
wages, which along with the Bank's contribution,
collectively works out to a few million rupees. Their
employees are involved in a systematic monitoring of the
activities for which the funds have been donated. The
objective is to ensure that there is total involvement of
both the management and the employees while the
mission would be to succeed in making life better for
poorest of the poor and the downtrodden.
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As part of its centenary celebrations, the Bank of India
has adopted 101 villages. Employees too are very
considerate when it comes to serving a social cause and
the Officer's association and the Unions have always been
organising blood donation drives, adoption of village and
free cancer detection camp.
Question
What is the rationale behind the implementation of
corporate social responsibility at Bank of India?
What benefits Bank of India has derived after
implementing CSR initiatives?
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