Siemens and the illusion of CSR and codes of business integrity Siemens just settled on a major international corruption case. It turns out that over the past decade Siemens and some of its subsidiaries made at least 4‚283 payments either to public officials or “agents” to secure or retain contracts. The estimated amount of the payments made in more than ten countries surpassed $1.4 billion. During the current case‚ the criminal damages from Siemens were calculated to amount for up to $2.7 billion
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TOYOTA RECALL: An issue that put its aim of “moving forward’’ to a standstill CSR‚ Corporate Social Responsibility‚ is currently a fashion in the business world. Many corporations and/or organizations set up divisions of CSR and have been publishing reports of their CSR activities in the past decade. To explain and understand this concept further let me tell you about the most talked about organization in the past few years‚ Toyota Motors which has been facing certain criticism in its business
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CSR Apple is making genuine strides in the direction of environmental friendliness by designing for energy efficiency‚ reducing packaging‚ and using recycling materials. Its websites also releases an extensively breakdown of company’s annual corporate carbon emissions. Apple says it emits 10.2 million tons of carbon emissions annually. Meanwhile‚ HP says it releases 8.4 million tons annually and it was just named the best S&P companies for the planet by Newsweek. Dell came in second and
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CSR Initiatives by ONGC The major CSR initiatives taken by ONGC are as follows: ONGC subsidiary MRPL has taken CSR initiative “Samrakshan”. Under this initiative the company has done construction of an Anganwadi building‚ donating scientific teaching aids‚ providing infrastructural facilities including cupboards to schools. This initiative also covers 53 schools around MRPL and 16 schools around sarpadi village. ONGC has started an initiative called “PURA”‚ concept put forth
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Name: Mary Grace Calalas BSBA-4 Date: October 25‚ 2012 Subject: CSR Teacher: Miss Cherrie Grace Abkilan Child Labor Free Barangay Campaign MGC Dress and Shoes Corporation I. TITLE OF THE CSR PROGRAM “Child Labor Free Barangay Campaign” II. RATIONALE This program is designed to help less fortunate and those children that at the young age they already work for their family. In this program we’re going to have a solution for those child laborers for them to be minimized. The
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strategic CSR has to be differentiated from ethical and altruistic. Ethical CSR can be defined with the help of Caroll ’s pyramid of corporate social responsibility (Crane&Matten‚ 2003). It covers the fulfillment of the three basis parts: economic‚ legal and ethical responsibilities. This means that a company handles ethical CSR in a correct manner if it operates in accordance with the requirements of the stockholders‚ the government and society. Altruistic CSR handles the top of the pyramid‚ the philanthropic
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References: 2) Bentham‚ J.‚ & Stuart Mill‚ M. (1789). Utilitarianism. Retrieved from http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/5q.htm 3) Carroll‚ A.‚ & Buchholtz‚ A 4) CBS. (2012‚ Oct 10). Walmart worker strikes spread across the country. CBS news. Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505125_162-57530082/walmart-worker-strikes-spread-across-the-country/ 5) Duke‚ M 6) Frederick‚ R. (1999)
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Ethics and CSR Chapter 9 Ethics Connock and Johns (1995) define ethics as the following 3 elements; • Fairness • Deciding what is right and wrong • Practices and rules which underpin responsible conduct between groups and individuals Billington (2003) lists five distinctive features of ethics; • Nobody can avoid ethical decisions‚ we make ethical decisions every day of our lives • Ethical decisions matter‚ they affect the lives of others • Although ethics
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Environment and pollution in CSR Introduction There are different type of pollution that affect the environment for example: Water pollution‚ Air pollution Land pollution Noise pollution and Radioactive pollution. Water pollution Water pollution is the pollution of water bodies for example ‚ rivers‚ oceans‚ aquifers‚ lakes and groundwater. Also there are some undesirable substances pollute the water. Moreover there are many cases of water pollution one of the themes is Industrial
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the profitability and take care of all those associated with their survival in the society directly or indirectly. This realization resulted into the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). This research paper moves around developing an understanding about the corporate social responsibility (CSR)‚ delving into its concept and finding out its scope taking the case study of the TATA Group under Mr. Ratan Tata who has exemplified the sense of responsibility towards the upliftment of common
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