society to gain private profit‚ they have a moral obligation to repay the society. (Ryan‚ N.‚ Parker‚ R.‚ & Brown‚ K. 2003). Businesses have clearly identified this responsibility and have started taking up the challenge to legitimate its practices to society at large. This in the last decade has been commonly referred to as Corporate Social Responsibility – CSR (Crane‚ A.‚ Matten‚ D.‚ Spence‚ L. 2008). As Carroll (1979‚ cited in Carroll‚ 1991) states that‚ CSR included the idea that the corporation
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Wal-Mart – Stakeholder and CSR policies Executive summary In this report I’ll try to show why Wal-Mart decision 8 years ago to develop a stakeholder management and a corporate social responsibility plan was a good decision for the company. The company realised that its image wasn’t really good in the public opinion; they were unable to communicate and reach the African-American community‚ they have a bad reputation toward women and also suffer from a lot of critics about their negative effect on
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Introduction Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder‚ or ADHD‚ is a common disorder that primarily affects children and adolescents. Approximately 2 to 16 percent of school aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD (Rader‚ Mccauley‚ Callen‚ 2009). Children with ADHD have difficulties paying attention and are more impulsive than other children. The behaviors exhibited by children with ADHD can make it difficult to function at school and at home. Treatment of ADHD can include medication‚ behavior
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"Far too much attention is given to beauty products and treatments." Comment. “Beauty comes from within” is now a phrase laughed by many. In this modern society‚ looks are all that matters‚ beauty products and treatments are slowly interwoven into our lives‚ new treatments such as slimming programmes and feature-enhancement treatment‚ plastic surgery and much much more‚ appeal to the vain side of each person. Now‚ not only does women willingly splurge thousands of dollars on these everyday beauty
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(Spector‚ 2008 cited in Carroll and Shabana‚ 2010: 86)‚ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been becoming an increasingly influencing factor in corporate governance. KPMG (2008 cited in Du et al.‚ 2010: 13) indicates that the proportion of the 250 hugest enterprises in the world who annually release CSR reports has grown up from 50% in 2005 to 80% in 2008. Porter and Kramer (2006: 80) declare that CSR is more likely to be advantages such as ‘opportunity‚ innovation‚ and competitive advantage’ for
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CSR objectives and actions developed for each of the Indra’s stakeholder groups: customers‚ suppliers‚ employees‚ shareholders and community are: Customers For Indra‚ knowledge exchange with customers to develop ad-hoc solutions is essential. In doing so‚ Indra selects those customers that it considers as highly innovative and with great growth potential‚ for which the development of trust is critical. Thus‚ it fulfills a two-fold aim: it improves its knowledge on needs and expectations of this group
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aspects can have a major impact on the profitability of the company. Thereby this led to recognition of different types of capital including financial‚ human‚ natural and social capital‚ which has the effect on human living space. Within this sense‚ social and environment reporting can be described as process of communicating the social and environmental effects of organizations economic activities to particular interest groups within society at large (Gray‚ Owens and Adams‚ 1996). History of CSR Social
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Baltic Journal of Management‚ Vol. 7 Iss 1 pp. 49 - 67 1.2 Introduction This article shows that the positive contribution of CSR to the internal staff. It was found that the reason for encouraging the employees motivation is corporate social responsibility. 1.3 Aims and Research Methods In the survey‚ 274 staff come from the largest company of Lithuania to undertook the CSR events. The research hypotheses were tested using correlation and regression analysis using factor scores from a principal
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Stakeholders A stakeholder is a person‚ group or organization that has interest or concern in an organization. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organization’s actions‚ objectives and policies. There is two different types of stake holders‚ these are internal and external. Internal stakeholders are people who are on the inside of the business that already serve the organisation‚ these include staff‚ managers‚ board members etc. external stakeholders are from outside of the company but
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Attention Attention Definition; Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. We are particularly attentive to stimuli that appear exceptionally bright‚ large‚ loud‚ novel or high in contrast. Attention We also pay greater attention to stimuli that are particularly meaningful or are relevant to our motivations. E.g.‚ If we are hungry ‚we are more apt to be sensitive to food and food related stimuli. It also
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