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9. Infiltrating customers’ and competitors’ business operations
10. Quizzing suppliers about competitors’ level of manufacturing
11. Using customers to buy out phony bids
12. Encouraging key customers to reveal competitive information
13. Quizzing competitors’ former employees
14. Interviewing consultants who may have worked with competitors
15. Hiring key managers away from competitors
16. Conducting phony job interviews to get competitors’ employees to reveal information
17. Sending engineers to trade meetings to quiz competitors’ technical employees
18. Quizzing potential employees who worked for or with competitors

Assurance of Learning Exercise 10C

Who Prepares a Sustainability Report?

Purpose
The purpose of this activity is to determine the nature and prevalence of Sustainability Reports
among companies in your state.
Instructions
Contact by phone at least five different plant managers or owners of large businesses in your
area. Seek answers to the following questions. Present your findings in a written report to your
instructor.
1. Does your company prepare a Sustainability Report? If yes, please describe the nature and scope of
the report.
2. Are environmental criteria included in the performance evaluation of managers? If yes, please specify
the criteria.
3. Are environmental affairs more a technical function or a management function in your company?
4. Does your firm offer any environmental workshops for employees? If yes, please describe them.