Corporate Social Responsibility
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 by your classmates.
Begin your original post by Tuesday night at midnight.
Read all other student 's postings as the week progresses and return to the thread to respond to the comments of your classmates. Remember to address other students by name if you are responding to them directly. Please begin your discussions by Tuesday of this week.
(Pride & Ferrell, 2014) states social responsibility is an organization’s obligation to maximize its positive impact and minimize its negative impact. Sustainability is one of the more common ways marketers demonstrate social responsibility. Sustainability is the potential for long term wellbeing of the natural environment, including all entities as well as the interaction among nature and individuals, organizations and business strategies. Major social concerns are conservation, water pollution, air pollution and land pollution.
Given the definition of social responsibility, BP and Deep Water Horizon is one example of a corporation that failed miserable with social responsibility. After the accident occurred, BP senior management failed to properly discuss the extent of what was actually leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. Former CEO Tony Howard was more concerned about getting his life back than properly disclosing the factual information to enable environmentalist to better understand the extent of effort required for conservation efforts to help treat the water and land pollution caused by the explosion and millions
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 by your classmates.
Begin your original post by Tuesday night at midnight.
Read all other student 's postings as the week progresses and return to the thread to respond to the comments of your classmates. Remember to address other students by name if you are responding to them directly. Please begin your discussions by Tuesday of this week.
(Pride & Ferrell, 2014) states social responsibility is an organization’s obligation to maximize its positive impact and minimize its negative impact. Sustainability is one of the more common ways marketers demonstrate social responsibility. Sustainability is the potential for long term wellbeing of the natural environment, including all entities as well as the interaction among nature and individuals, organizations and business strategies. Major social concerns are conservation, water pollution, air pollution and land pollution.
Given the definition of social responsibility, BP and Deep Water Horizon is one example of a corporation that failed miserable with social responsibility. After the accident occurred, BP senior management failed to properly discuss the extent of what was actually leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. Former CEO Tony Howard was more concerned about getting his life back than properly disclosing the factual information to enable environmentalist to better understand the extent of effort required for conservation efforts to help treat the water and land pollution caused by the explosion and millions
References: http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/45322046/Philip_Morris_USA_Inc._and_CSR.pdf