Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia Corporate Social Responsibility BASM 580B – Period 5 Instructor: Office: Phone: Email: Office Hours: Angela Kelleher HA 563 (604) 454-2243 Angela.Kelleher@sauder.ubc.ca Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm‚ or by appointment Overview This course is designed to engage students in a discussion of Corporate Social Responsibility through a series of interactive learning activities. The course will begin with preparing the students to discuss and debate
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How does the extract from text different perspectives about environment sustainability? The Rabbits is an allegorical picture book that explore different perspectives about environmental sustainability through different techniques. Colours and synergy that have been used in this picture book are a few techniques to represent the perspectives and to have a emotional connect with the characters. Shaun tan and John Marsden‚ traverse the perspectives in the allegorical picture book The Rabbits
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its main hub is minutes away from my home town. I have been able to see how it personally created jobs. FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation‚ e-commerce and business services. They offer integrated business applications through eight operating companies‚ all under the FedEx name‚ competing collectively. The business competitor environment includes both private and public companies such as DHL‚ UPS‚ and even USPS. One of the major issues the
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How BP failed at crisis communication British Petroleum (BP) suffered a large-scale public relations and crisis communication disaster‚ when an oil-drilling rig accident on 20th April 2010 incurred a spillage of several million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. This catastrophic spill has been regarded as one of the most severe environmental damages recorded in the U.S. history‚ causing public animosity and frustration‚ substantially because of inappropriate BP´s crisis communication
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Corporate Social Responsibility An Implementation Guide for Business Paul Hohnen‚ Author Jason Potts‚ Editor Corporate Social Responsibility An Implementation Guide for Business Paul Hohnen‚ Author Jason Potts‚ Editor ii Corporate Social Responsibility: An Implementation Guide for Business © 2007‚ International Institute for Sustainable Development The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on
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Volume 1‚ Number 2‚ 2000‚ pp. 303–321 Public Relations in Strategic Management and Strategic Management of Public Relations: theory and evidence from the IABC Excellence project JAMES E. GRUNIG AND LARISSA A. GRUNIG University of Maryland‚ USA ABSTRACT This article establishes the case for public relations as a critical component of an organization’s strategic management processes and of the subsequent strategic management of public relations in an effective organization. The article
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Counselor ’s Ethics and Responsibilities Grand Canyon University PCN 505: Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethics May 14‚ 2013 Counselor ’s Ethics and Responsibilities “Counselors are aware of their own values‚ attitudes‚ beliefs‚ and behaviors and avoid imposing values that are inconsistent with counseling goals” (APA Code A.4.b). It is important for counselors to avoid causing harm to their clients and to minimize unavoidable or unanticipated harm” (APA Code A.4.a)
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In 2010‚ BP encountered two predicaments. The first was stopping a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an oilrig exploded. The second was persuading people that they were doing just so. The company damaged its environmentally friendly image when the Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20‚ 2010‚ eventually creating the largest marine oil spill in history. Eleven workers were killed‚ an estimated 6‚000 barrels of oil leaked per day‚ and years of irreversible damage
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development of cross-national business‚ on one hand‚ has created tremendous opportunities for global collaboration among different countries; on the other hand‚ however‚ it has also created a unique set of ethical problems. “As one expert estimates that about two-third of the 500 largest American corporations have been involved in one form of illegal behaviour or another” (Gellerman‚ 1986). Many large multinational companies are more likely to treat Chinese market as a mechanism to save money rather than
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Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be defined as the "economic‚ legal‚ ethical‚ and discretionary expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time" (Carroll and Buchholtz 2003‚ p. 36). The concept of corporate social responsibility means that organizations have moral‚ ethical‚ and philanthropic responsibilities in addition to their responsibilities to earn a fair return for investors and comply
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