Find two examples of companies‚ products or organizations which display social responsibility: one which displays good social responsibility and one which displays poor social responsibility. For each‚ explain why you have this opinion of these firms. Read all posts before yours - no duplicates allowed‚ so if another student has already posted about your choices‚ change your example to some other firm. Early posts have priority. Then come back to the discussion and comment on the examples given
Premium Corporate social responsibility Social responsibility Tobacco industry
Corporate Social Responsibility Leslie Jackson OMM640 Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Instructor: Dr. Alan Swank October 7‚ 2012 Corporate Social Responsibility in Business Today Boatright (2009‚ pp 349) relates that Feuerstein’s pledge to continue paying his workers eventually cost them their jobs‚ and cost Feuerstein his company. Feuerstein’s commitment personifies a company’s responsibility to a community and workers. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) influences the local
Premium Corporate social responsibility Social responsibility Business
Birch (2002). Social‚ Economic and Environmental Capital. Corporate Citizenship in a New Economy. Deakin University‚ Melbourne J.M. Darley (2005). How Organizations Socialize Individuals into Evildoing In recent years‚ Corporate and Social Responsibility has become an ever increasing concern and source of community debate. It is now socially accepted that corporations have some ongoing responsibility‚ though sometimes ignored‚ to set a good example‚ make decisions based on social good and on
Premium Social responsibility Corporate social responsibility Corporation
Corporate Social Responsibilities Tony Fernandes‚ CEO of Kuala Lumpur-based Air Asia started a low-cost airline at a time when everyone thought he would fail. He placed high emphasis on his workforce and flexible HR strategies. During the past few years‚ Air Asia has become one of the best low-cost airlines in Asia and it has also boosted its CSR efforts. Fernandes’ basic sense of CSR starts with his people: Air Asia was one of the first airlines in Asia to hire female pilots. He says that his staff
Premium Low-cost carrier Airline Tony Fernandes
Corporate social responsibility is a business philosophy that stresses the importance of keeping the best interests of the wider society in mind. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development in its publication Making Good Business Sense by Lord Holme and Richard Watts‚ used the following definition. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce
Premium Corporate social responsibility Sustainability Sustainable development
Corporate Social Responsibility The different aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have been the topic of considerable debate since the last decades of the twentieth century. Main factor for the increased interest on the part of stakeholders in this topic are the increased public awareness and interest in the corporate social responsibility following the Information Revolution. This essay will assess the dangers and benefits of the business ethics for most of the stakeholders – employees
Premium Corporate social responsibility Ethics Business ethics
reports that showcase companies’ social and The Ratings Game environmental good deeds. Of the 250 largest multina- tional corporations‚ 64% published CSR reports in 2005‚ either within their annual report or‚ for most‚ in separate sustainability reports – supporting a new cottage indus- Measuring and publicizing social performance is a po- try of report writers. tentially powerful way to in uence corporate behavior – Such publications rarely offer a coherent framework assuming that the
Premium Corporate social responsibility
Limited (ACL) previously known as Gujarat Ambuja Cement Limited is an Old buzzword in Indian CEMENT market. With Strategic Alliance with world’s largest cement manufacturer‚ HOLCIM a Swiss base company acquires a strong hold on its quality and know-how that is not second to any other cement manufacturing company. ACL is surging towards more and more innovations to offer nothing but the very best and the latest CEMENT manufacturing technology to esteemed customers. Thus‚ ACL is able to monitor
Premium Cement Portland cement Concrete
Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology School of Business College of arts and social sciences This research instrument is designed to collect data for a study on the topic the “the effect of corporate social responsibility on the organizational growth. ( a case study of Vodafone Ghana Kumasi) Please thick [ ] where necessary A THE ORGANISATION QUESTIONNAIRES PART I: DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS 1. NAME ……………………………………………………………………………… 2. POSITION……………………………………………………………………………
Premium Corporate social responsibility Ghana Social responsibility
Companies have a social responsibility to perform and behave in particular ways. A company has a responsibility to ensure that any stakeholder’s needs are being met. The Toyota Corporations history and goals are as follows; “Toyota Motors is a Japanese automobile manufacturer founded in 1933. Toyota accounts for 78 percent of all the hybrid gas/electric cars sold in the United States. They are working to become the largest car-seller in the world‚ and in the first quarter of fiscal year 2007‚ for
Premium Carbon dioxide Toyota Prius Toyota