The Warehouse Group Ltd is a typical half-hearted company that does not do what it preaches in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility. From the Warehouse Annual Report and Social and Environment Report 2009‚ I found that the company is not only focusing on its financial performance‚ but also on social and environmental external effects. A critical analysis of this reporting practice suggests that the Warehouse is not truly responsible socially and environmentally but more a public relation exercise
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Social Responsibility (CSR) the more difficult it is to define. And as long as it remains difficult to define‚ it will be difficult to communicate and enforce. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that one is faced with a series of questions related to corporate social responsibility‚ human rights and the law along a parallel path of considering the importance of profits‚ business innovation and market share. Just what is the role of business as it pertains to social responsibility? Corporations
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Challenges to Corporate Social Responsibilities Company: Reebok International Ltd. Student Name: Jedy Wang Student #: 250476511 Teacher Assistant: Mike Dove Due Date: 11/14/2008 Executive Summary The 20th century illustrated a dispersing trend of capitalism as the end of the Cold War illustrated evident economic prosperity in Western countries. Consequently‚ many former Communist countries implemented economic reforms due to the perception that capitalism was the economic ideology
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4. Responsibility of Corporations: Rationale‚ source and limits Whether there is social responsibility or obligation proper to speak of towards corporations is a topic of debate. However‚ the suspicious perception of business personnel towards CSR is understandable‚ essentially because the policy choices and actions of government may directly impact their operations‚ with a spillover effect on their responsibility to their stakeholders especially their employees and customers. a. Theoretical
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Social Development and Corporate Responsibility To say that low living standards‚ poverty‚ unemployment and social development should be a responsibility of corporations is preposterous. Corporations have the sole responsibility of making their shareholders money‚ and in turn‚ making themselves money. In recent years‚ with advancing technology and scientific research‚ corporate social responsibility has becoming a talking point. Holding corporations responsible for their waste and pollution makes
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position‚ occupy a functional leadership position‚ you can be specialist‚ etc. Philips says it’s giving its employees freedom to develop and improve their skills and talents‚ it is challenging them to grow. Its employees therefore‚ are given an high responsibility‚ but they can also contribute their new ideas. Because when you work at Philips‚ “you need to be willing to take ownership of your projects and feel accountable for delivering superior results.” Philips says it’s trying to attract diverse people
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The benefit of CSR Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an attractive issue in recently years‚ because several companies and people have noticed environmental or ethical problems of surrounding society‚ such as working places and pollution. Although the first Concept of CSR was proposed from the early 1950 and started being rarely discussed after Industrial Revolution‚ CSR is now using broadly in full integration with strategic management and corporate governance at 20th century to
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1.1 What is Corporate Social Responsibility? The theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is best elucidated by the statement that a company should take a wider view of how its actions and success impact society and stakeholders. CSR identifies that "doing well" and "doing good" go hand in hand. (Leadership and CSR: a Perfect Match). A commonly used definition provided by the World Business Council for Sustainable Developement states that CSR is "Continuing commitment by a business to
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discover opportunities to benefit society as well as themselves by strengthening the competitive context in which they operate; to determine which CSR initiatives they should address; and to find the most effective ways of doing so. Perceiving social responsibility as an opportunity rather than as damage control or a PR campaign requires dramatically different thinking--a mind-set‚ the authors warn‚ that will become increasingly important to competitive success. Many topics that Porter and Kramer have discussed
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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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