Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility (CSR) is simple, according to the book: “Distinguishing right from wrong and doing right”. Social responsibility benefits both individual and companies as well. Luo and Bhattacharya (2006) address the fact that companies are increasingly taking direct steps to communicate their CSR to customers and stake holders to increase factors that will benefit the company. As we can see in this movie most of the actors or bosses are not that ethical. Before they engage in a journey of murdering their bosses, they work for companies who only do not appreciate them and put them in a bind. Curt, works for a chemical company and whose new boss is seeking for the company’s profit which will eventually lead to his own profit by wanting to hire a company who disposes chemicals for cheaper endangering local citizens. His new boss violates all four elements of corporate social responsibility: the legal responsibility by denying to pay a hospital bill to an injured employee and firing an employee for no reason, Economic responsibility, ethical responsibility, and discretionary responsibility. Social responsibility covers beyond than “ The obligation of organization management to make decisions and take actions that will enhance the welfare and interest of society as well as organization” (Daft 2012) it covers more than that. Everything is interconnected, and as we can see in this movie, lack of good communication leads to misunderstandings, and bribery leads to unsatisfied employees whose desires are vengeful. David Harken is a very unfair boss that uses blackmail to disrespect Nick’s rights as an employee. Companies are to seek the profit of society and organization respectively, however, in this movie we see that David Harken seeks his own profit by taking over an open position as a vice president of sales and along with that an additional 85% of that salary. His type of leadership is unethical and he is committing corporate fraud, he is a poor performer who

Citations: Luo, X., & Bhattacharya, C. B. (2006). Corporate Social Responsibility, Customer Satisfaction, and Market Value. Journal Of Marketing, 70(4), 1-18. Retrieved from http://0www.jstor.org.torofind.csudh.edu/stable/10.2307/30162111.