Consider the scenario below and answer the question that follows:

Bright Light Designs (BLD), a black-owned home-business operating from Hatfield, produces buttons and zips. BLD’s main client is Ray Boutique. Ray Boutique receives excellent quality products from BLD, however BLD is struggling with Ray Boutique’s required volumes and timely delivery of such. BLD has requested Ray Boutique to assist with finding a solution to this challenge. There are many options which constitute ways in which Ray Boutique could partner with BLD, whilst simultaneously improving their Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) score.

Which one of the following options should Ray Boutique not follow?

Consider the following list of variables associated with embedding sustainability into the strategic management process.

(a) part of their “DNA”

(b) a business constraint

(c) an “add-on” function

(d) the layout of additional costs

(e) part of how corporates survive

(f) part of how corporates compete

(g) the distribution of charitable deeds

To embed sustainability in the strategic management process, corporates need to shift from seeing sustainability as ________.

Consider the paragraph below and answer the question that follows.

The human resource (HR) function has transformed from basic transactional functions (such as performing the traditional HR functions like administration) to key stakeholder functions. In light of the HR function and corporate citizenship, consider the following paragraph to answer the question that follows. The spirit of corporate citizenship should be seen as a stand-alone concept, but it should be embedded in the corporate climate and culture, and subsequently in the HR policies, processes and practices as well. The HR department has a very important role to play in the formulation of the corporate strategy, especially in terms of corporate citizenship, for business, legal and values-based reasons. It is widely accepted that the HR function should be an active role-player in the formulation of corporate values and a sustainability strategy. The responsibility of the HR function is to implement practices that support and facilitate the ability of the corporate to administer citizenship rights to its employees and other stakeholders.

Critique the above paragraph by determining which one of the following assertions is true.