With the recent corporate scandals involving such companies as Enron and Martha Stewart‚ the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has once again made its way to the forefront of contemporary management ideologies. However‚ CSR itself is not a new concept. In fact‚ societies as far back as the Ancient Mesopotamians (circa 1700 BC) incorporated CSR in their businesses. "King Hammurabi introduced a code in which builders‚ innkeepers or farmers were put to death if their negligence caused
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Corporate Social Responsibility Being a company that prospers is very much different than a company that is consistently following a guided work ethic while making revenue. Companies these days may participate in under the table schemes or anything to make that extra buck. Very a few industries willingly follow corporate social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility (which will now be referred to as CSR) is a business firm’s intention‚ beyond its legal and economic obligations‚ to do the
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In 2009‚ Starbucks released an annual Corporate social responsibility report.[96] Environmental impact Grounds for your Garden In 1999‚ Starbucks started "Grounds for your Garden" to make their business moreenvironmentally-friendly. This gives leftover coffee grounds to anyone requesting it for composting. Although not all stores and regions participate‚ customers can request and lobby their local store to begin the practice. In 2004‚ Starbucks began reducing the size of their paper napkins
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Today‚ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is much wider concept than just donations and philanthropy. It is viewed as a way of doing business‚ identified with the strategies and standards of business conduct that companies follow in their business. While focused on creating shareholder value‚ the companies seem to be equally focused on CSR for various reasons like - attracting socially responsible investors‚ customer group‚ marketing‚ branding‚ enhanced employee relations and Tax incentives.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility is defined in several ways. Some of which are the following: A concept of business ethics based on the idea that companies have stakeholders who are broadly defined as anyone or group affected by the activities of the company. The idea of CSR is that a company should be accountable to its stakeholders. For this reason the subjects of CSR focus on how companies should identify and “engage” stakeholders and how they should determine
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Corparate Social Responsibility Background Lord Holme and Richard Watts from The World Business Council for Sustainable Development in its publication Making Good Business Sense defined Corporate Social Responsibilty as 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 (Corporate Social Responsibilty 2004). UMW’s Corporate
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Corporate Social responsibility at McDonald’s McDonald is one of the most renowned fast food restaurants across the globe. The vision of McDonald’s was coined by Ronal McDonald who identified the need of its target audiences and tailor made the products as per them. The organization has established a value proposition for the target audience on the basis of a penetration pricing strategy that has appealed to the people in almost every country. Being a tough competitor to many fast food
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Morrisons recently published last April its "Corporate social responsibility report" (CSR report‚ 2006) for the previous financial year. The report puts high regard on Morrisons’ effort to minimise the impact of its business operations on the environment. Moreover‚ the report stresses the catering of the interests of its "key" stakeholders‚ namely its customers‚ suppliers‚ colleagues and shareholders. Recalling way back before it completely took over the ownership of Safeway in 8 March 2004‚ Morrisons
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by advanced technology‚ including a rapidly growing e-commerce capability‚ HSBC provides a comprehensive range of financial services: personal financial services; commercial banking; corporate‚ investment banking and markets; private banking; and other activities. Group Values and Business Principles The HSBC corporate character defines the values and principles inherent in all our everyday dealings. Group History The HSBC Group has an international pedigree which is unique. Many of its principal companies
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start college. Before a pupil can start Grade 1‚ he/she must have been enrolled in kindergarten. Today‚ the country needs at least 60‚000 classrooms to accommodate its growing population of students opting for a public-funded education. With the rising cost of private education but little increase of family income‚ it is expected that students who were enrolled in private schools would shift to public schools. Lack of classrooms‚ again‚ is just one of the many problems that that plagues our educational
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