FIBDL8
Tutorial 8
Exam question:
Note re. layout: All students are encouraged to use multiple subheadings to help the marker understand exactly what aspects of the question you are answering in a particular section.
Explicit announcement of a key issue that is implicit in the requirement: You should attempt to locate your company within the wider CSR debate, and this will require you to locate your company within the sector in which it operates.
Referencing: You should demonstrate to the reader where you have obtained the information and quotes that you refer to.
Key source
You should use the Annual Report and Accounts as a starting point for your analysis – but strong answers will not be limited to this one key source.
Interactive learning activity: definition of CSR
Dahlsrud, 2008
Economic responsibilities: activities
It is suggested that students analyse:
• 5 year overall profitability
• Dividends (in total and by share)
• 5 year share price
Remember to draw an overall conclusion: explaining if and how they are fulfilling this basic responsibility.
The above analysis ignores
• the wages that Next have paid to employees
• the tax that has been paid
Legal and regulatory responsibilities: discussion
According to the lecture slides what are some of the suggested "search" words that you could use to uncover instances of non compliance?
What is your critical opinion about using the following sources?
• FT.com
• The BBC
• The Guardian
• The Telegraph
• The Huffington Post
• Wikipedia
• Protest sites
• Anti-capitalist sites
Ethical activities: warm up open questions
What is good, right and just
All students need to be aware of is that Carroll's pyramid seems to adopt different ethical stances within different tiers of the pyramid.
• The economic tier seems to assume that the company has a "duty" to shareholders.
• The regulatory/legal tier seems to assume that the company has a "duty" to obey the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions that it operated within – and
Exam question:
Note re. layout: All students are encouraged to use multiple subheadings to help the marker understand exactly what aspects of the question you are answering in a particular section.
Explicit announcement of a key issue that is implicit in the requirement: You should attempt to locate your company within the wider CSR debate, and this will require you to locate your company within the sector in which it operates.
Referencing: You should demonstrate to the reader where you have obtained the information and quotes that you refer to.
Key source
You should use the Annual Report and Accounts as a starting point for your analysis – but strong answers will not be limited to this one key source.
Interactive learning activity: definition of CSR
Dahlsrud, 2008
Economic responsibilities: activities
It is suggested that students analyse:
• 5 year overall profitability
• Dividends (in total and by share)
• 5 year share price
Remember to draw an overall conclusion: explaining if and how they are fulfilling this basic responsibility.
The above analysis ignores
• the wages that Next have paid to employees
• the tax that has been paid
Legal and regulatory responsibilities: discussion
According to the lecture slides what are some of the suggested "search" words that you could use to uncover instances of non compliance?
What is your critical opinion about using the following sources?
• FT.com
• The BBC
• The Guardian
• The Telegraph
• The Huffington Post
• Wikipedia
• Protest sites
• Anti-capitalist sites
Ethical activities: warm up open questions
What is good, right and just
All students need to be aware of is that Carroll's pyramid seems to adopt different ethical stances within different tiers of the pyramid.
• The economic tier seems to assume that the company has a "duty" to shareholders.
• The regulatory/legal tier seems to assume that the company has a "duty" to obey the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions that it operated within – and