Google Social Responsibility Case Study
2.0 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)
The corporate social responsibility is an activity where it has been involved by almost all of the company in the world. However, normally it would be the big companies which will engage more in these corporate responsibility activities. According to Lord Holme and Richard Watts (2010), 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 and their families as well as of the local community and society at large. The concept of having this Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in the company is growing and more and more company are joining and implementing the CSR policies …show more content…
This is what Google wants to do where they want to show to the public that they are not concealing any information to the public. They want to show that they have nothing to hide and their work progress and outcomes are available to be seen by the public. Other than that, is focusing on the ethical behavior. This explains on the reason why Google are involving with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. They want to involve with preserving the ethical behavior standards at the corporate level. Google has been awarded as one of the most ethical behavior company for the World’s Most Ethical Award (WME) in 2014. According to Ethisphere (2014), WME honorees not only promote ethical business standards and practices internally, they exceed legal compliance minimums and shape future industry standards by introducing best practices today. This means that Google has set the standards of ethical behavior for any corporation to follow with. One the example that could be use from Google to explain this governance factor is the Google’s Core Values. It is the beliefs and values that an organization holds constantly in doing their business. One of the core values is the Do the right thing: Don’t Be Evil. This is where Google would conduct their business in the right manner with integrity and honesty. They would actually make profits by doing good
The corporate social responsibility is an activity where it has been involved by almost all of the company in the world. However, normally it would be the big companies which will engage more in these corporate responsibility activities. According to Lord Holme and Richard Watts (2010), 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 and their families as well as of the local community and society at large. The concept of having this Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) in the company is growing and more and more company are joining and implementing the CSR policies …show more content…
This is what Google wants to do where they want to show to the public that they are not concealing any information to the public. They want to show that they have nothing to hide and their work progress and outcomes are available to be seen by the public. Other than that, is focusing on the ethical behavior. This explains on the reason why Google are involving with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. They want to involve with preserving the ethical behavior standards at the corporate level. Google has been awarded as one of the most ethical behavior company for the World’s Most Ethical Award (WME) in 2014. According to Ethisphere (2014), WME honorees not only promote ethical business standards and practices internally, they exceed legal compliance minimums and shape future industry standards by introducing best practices today. This means that Google has set the standards of ethical behavior for any corporation to follow with. One the example that could be use from Google to explain this governance factor is the Google’s Core Values. It is the beliefs and values that an organization holds constantly in doing their business. One of the core values is the Do the right thing: Don’t Be Evil. This is where Google would conduct their business in the right manner with integrity and honesty. They would actually make profits by doing good