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Exam II Flashcards

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Kennametal’s Triple Bottom Line

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People - social
Profit - economic
Planet - global

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Kennametal - What are the benefits of improving lighting in the facility? - People
(Multiple select question)

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  • Happy customers
  • Decrease injuries
  • Increase productivity (can see better)
  • More alert
  • Less headaches
  • Increased morale
  • cleaner
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Kennametal - What are the benefits of improving lighting in the facility? - Profit
(Multiple select question)

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  • Less down time
  • Costs savings (500,000 every month)
  • Increase productivity
  • Customers tours
  • Moral up
  • Better employment interaction
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Kennametal - What are the benefits of improving lighting in the facility? - Planet
(Multiple select question)

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  • Less waste

- Less energy used

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What is the classic definition of Sustainable Development?

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“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”

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Stewardship model

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The responsible management of resources

  • Our license to operate showing the public and government that we are using our resources wisely
  • Ex: Alcoa
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Basket of Goods

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All the modern conveniences we use on a daily basis

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How many Earth’s would we need for everyone to live equally?

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5 Earths!

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What are the two ways we could change the intensity of resource usage?

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Conservation - same utility but use less

Innovation - creating a new way/product/replacement

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What is the IPCC?

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Created by the United Nations to observe, analyze the past, and model the future of global climate change

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Video: PWC and Climate Change

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2009 IPCC world summit

important as a business to have a sustainability and climate focus

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Video: Climate Change Debate

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Pres. Sierra Club = attacks oil companies

Pres. Exxon Mobile = focuses on the different types of renewable options; where are we going to go?

Both think climate change is an issue, different ways to go about it

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How does Climate Change effect businesses?

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through incentives, regulation, and public pressure

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Video: What does SAS do for sustainability within their company?

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Energy: solar farm; sheep to mow grass; region drive elevators; LEDs and CFLs on a mgmt system

Recycling: composting; educating workers

Green Building: 1/3 = recycled product; giving coffee mugs to limit paper waste

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SKF in Landsdale

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wanted to be LEED certified = use of geothermal heating a cooling

If you do these things the gov will give you a tax break

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Sustainability importance in an organization: who supports and who doesn’t?

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The top managers have the highest percentage of caring but it needs to be driven down the lowest levels of employment to be fully integrated and engaged!

Decreases as you go down the chain

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LED vs. CFL vs. Std

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LED = most energy efficient but cost the most

CFL = transitional bulb; very dangerous b/c mercury

Std = why do we even sell these anymore?

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What are the top three sustainability standards boards?

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  1. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - frameworks for sustainability
  2. Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) - report your company info here
  3. Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) - Making sustainable accounting practices and integrated reporting
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What does LEED stand for?

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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

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What is the US Green Building Council?

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They set the sustainability standards for building in the US

They are the one’s that certify LEED buildings

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Why is sustainability important to all smeal majors?

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They need to be integrated and working together in an organization to drive sustainability into the business in the future

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What was the overall theme of Dan Guide’s Guest Speech?

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Sustainable Industrial systems: both environmental and economic

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Dan guide: Major 2 Environmental Impacts of Industry

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  1. Climate Change

2. E-Waste (device life span decrease)

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Dan Guide: What’s the problem of sustainability?

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need to design systems that are economically AND environmentally sustainable

At the end of the day we’re still a business so you need to find a way for sustainable practices to create value

If businesses don’t take these actions on their own, then they will be forced to by the government

25
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Wally Triplett and PSU

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We Are chant

wouldn’t let our black football player in Miami game = whole team isn’t going so go fuck yourself

26
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Why Boys Fail: Richard Whitmire

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Education: men had easier access to education then women; now women receive majority of bachelor’s degrees but aren’t given the same treatment

27
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Video: 30% Club

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Commit 30% of roles to women at every level

Change the way we hire and recruit, supported by CEO and top leaders

28
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Def: Social Issue

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something everyone believes is an issue but can’t agree on how to fix it

29
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Traditional Diversity

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Started with race and gender and then expanded a little bit

Then became more about the protected classes: sex orientation, religion, disability status, age, etc.

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Contemporary Diversity (4 lenses)

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  1. Innermost - personality
  2. Internal - race, age, gender, ability, ethnicity
  3. External - education, habits, hobbies, work exp, etc.
  4. Organizational - location, function, level go mgmt, job title, field, seniority
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Business Definition of Diversity

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creating an environment where we recruit, develop, and leverage the best talent to achieve business goals and profitability

32
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Video: Touching Strangers

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bringing different people together even though they have never met; most of us have a human instinct the become immediately connected

33
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What were each of these amendments for?
13th
14th
15th

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13th - freed the slaves
14th - gave them citizenship
15th - gave them the right to vote
NOT ALL IMMEDIATELY IN PLACE HENCE CHANGE TO CIVIL RIGHTS ERA

34
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Eli Whitney and the cotton gin (1793): benefit and side effect

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benefit - able to do job much faster = growth in cotton industry and clothes are now cheaper

side effect - more slaves brought in to feed this system and keep production high

35
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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Says segregation is allowed

separate but equal

36
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Bown v. Board of Education (1954)

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Girl had to go to different school b/c black = argument that separation is not equal!

Segregation is now illegal but HUGE pushback from the southern white population

37
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What is the EEOC?

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

38
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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federal law that prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, and religion.

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Equal Pay Act of 1963

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federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex

40
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Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1967

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forbids employment discrimination against anyone at least 40 years of age in the United States

41
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Title I of the ADA 1990

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prohibits private employers, State and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, hiring, firing, advancement, compensation, job training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

42
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Section 510 Rehabilitation Act 1973

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all medical equipment is accessible to, and usable by, individuals with accessibility needs, and shall allow independent entry to, use of, and exit from the equipment by such individuals to the maximum extent possible.

43
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Civil Rights Act of 1991

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It provided the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages, while limiting the amount that a jury could award.

44
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Abercrombie and Fitch Case

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didn’t want fat people wearing their clothes or working for them = discrimination

45
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Discrimination Defintion

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the overt or subtle denial of opportunity

46
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What was the 3 step profession of diversity in the United States within corporations?

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  1. Affirmative Action
  2. Diversity Training
  3. Managing diversity

All in response to civil rights legislation

47
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Def: Affirmative Action

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taking positive steps to hire and promote people from groups previously discriminated against

48
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3 Areas Affirmative Action Programs touched

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  1. Employment and businesses
  2. education and universities
  3. federal government contractors
49
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What are the 2 approaches to Affirmative Action programs?

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Soft - passive nondiscrimination and pure AA (seeking out certain types of people)

Hard - AA with preferences and hard quotas

50
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Disparate treatment vs. disparate impact

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DT: treating someone differently

DI: treating a whole group differently

51
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Diversity Training: what is effective?

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focus on communication, culture, and behavior

NOT attitudes and bias

52
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Managing Diversity

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senior executives on board
adress all issues
use as business leverage

53
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U.S Census Data shows which group experiencing the most population growth by 2040?

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Asians and hispanics

54
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According to the Department of Labor, the ethnic composition of the workforce is slowly becoming….

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No majority white; it’s at 51% now and other ethnicities are increasing in numbers

55
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What do you need to know about the Aging population in the United States?

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There is starting to be more and more people 65+ in the US which means you need to close the gap between the young and the old as much as possible

know how to manage them and their needs to keep them in the workforce

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Def: Diversity

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creating an environment where we recruit, develop, and leverage the best talent to achieve business goals profitably (open doors) (equal opportunity)

57
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Def: Inclusion

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Proactively working to insure all employee’s cultures are valued so everyone can contribute to their full potential (keeps doors open) (keeping opportunity)

58
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Silicon Valley and Diversity?

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Seems as though they are lacking in diversity

have to combat the issue of white/asian male dominated work force but there isn’t enough diverse people going to study this

Complicated

59
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What is an ERG?

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Employee Resource Group (affinity group)

ex. Dell gennext, females, disability, etc.

Creates a sense of community, go for focus group, help/mentoring

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