Analysis: Realism or idealism Corporate social responsibility and the employee stakeholder in the global fast-food industry

The article by Royle T., ‘Realism or idealism Corporate social responsibility and the employee stakeholder in the global fast-food industry’, published in 2005, is mainly focused on CSR (Corporate social responsibility). CSR has some earnest and ominous influences in nowadays businesses and corporations. The author is first persisting on the rights of employees and employers. Though almost all of the global companies in the world do not intend to care about CSR, the author’s perspective insists that CSR’s activities are crucial for the future existence of the companies. The article insinuates that some globally known companies are acting properly in a socially responsible behavior. Further, the author’s main purpose of writing this research article is about the global fast-food industry. Indeed, the author focuses on the inadequate treatment of employees at McDonald’s. It is clearly stated that the only concern of companies such as McDonalds is in money, making profit at any price, whilst the requirements of CSR and human rights lie somewhere completely opposites to their demeanor.
The article is an academic research that is peer reviewed and intended for students. The main purpose of the article is to provide further information about business ethics. Furthermore, it also discusses CSR’s aims and actions. We can say that CSR has to challenge poor treatment of workers or environmental degradation, but it may also mean that some workers or facilities find that they are unable to work.
With the introduction, Royle T. conveys that in a “number of developing countries”1 companies are obliged to work together with the CSR. Since the income and the occupational conditions for employees in evolved countries, as the UK, is highly satisfactory, though some people are not willing to work because they believe that neither their rights as employees nor even their human rights are respected. However, we can gather with the brought over impression on the reader that the