Business organisation and environment

Table of Contents

1. Topic pack - introduction
2. 1.1 Nature of business activity - notes
3. 1.1 Nature of business activity - questions
4. 1.2 Types of organisation - notes
5. 1.2 Types of organisation - questions
6. 1.3 Organisational objectives - notes
7. 1.3 Organisational objectives - questions
   1. Nature of objectives - short answer questions
   2. Ethical objectives - case study
   3. Ethical objectives - short answer questions
   4. Intel and CSR
   5. What is ethical investing?
   6. CSR and its link to personal and moral integrity
   7. A legal right to drill, but do they have a moral right?
   8. Social entrepreneurship
8. 1.4 Stakeholders - notes
9. 1.4 Stakeholders - questions
10. 1.5 External environment - notes
11. 1.5 External environment - questions
12. 1.5 External environment - simulations and activities
13. 1.6 Organisational planning tools - notes
14. 1.6 Growth and evolution - notes
15. 1.7 Growth and evolution - questions
16. 1.7 Growth and evolution - simulations and activities
17. 1.6 Change (HL only) - notes
18. 1.9 Globalisation - notes
19. 1.9 Globalisation - questions
20. Print View

What is ethical investing?

Read the F&C Guide to Ethical Investing.

You can read this in the window below or follow the previous link to read the article in a separate window) and then consider answers to the questions below.

Question 1

Using the information from the report, explain what is meant by:

• Ethical Investing
• Ethical investment funds
• The criteria for ensuring investment is ethical

Question 2

Evaluate the claim that investment in ethical funds makes financial sense.

Question 3

Discuss the view that the concept of ethical behaviour is rightly different between different external stakeholder groups.