Q2) “Evaluate the relative importance of corporate social responsibility relative to other corporate objective” (40 Marks) Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a firm’s decision to accept responsibility for its social‚ environmental and ethical actions. A firm’s decisions whether to adopt and rank importance to CSR should be due to a variety of reasons‚ like the financial stability of the company aswell as the culture of the organisation. But one definitive factor would be a firm’s corporate
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Raylah Williams Stake your claim. With unemployment rates remaining high‚ jobs are hard to find in the current economy. Even if people can find work‚ this does not automatically provide an escape from poverty. In 2007 of economy significantly declined and still has not returned to what it has used to be. People setting up camps in our neighborhood shouldn’t be such a bad thing but a chance for us to give back to our community. I’m not saying open up your homes to them but helping them in every
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How You Carry Could Save Your Life Today’s global environment has become more violent than just a decade ago. The majority of attacks has been on civilians in atmospheres where few‚ if any‚ of the victims are expected to be armed and able to defend themselves. However‚ hindsight reports from law enforcement personnel admit that if more private citizens were armed‚ the number of lethal crimes would most likely decrease. This is because criminals won’t know who‚ or how many‚ individuals are armed
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Personal responsibility‚ to me‚ means that we as individuals are responsible for our own actions. We begin learning this as children. As children‚ we are taught the difference between right and wrong‚ and when we make the conscious decision to do something wrong‚ we have to face the consequences. We are also taught that when you do the right thing‚ you are usually rewarded. The ideal situation is that we would learn not to do those things again that caused us to be punished. The knowledge we take
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Critically assess the claim that conscience is a reliable guide to ethical decision making. Conscience is something inside of us which distinguishes good from evil and makes us feel guilty when we have done something wrong. As defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English‚ is ‘A person’s moral sense of right and wrong‚ viewed as acting as a guide to one’s behaviour’. It plays a decisive role in any moral decision‚ and just like normative ethics‚ one can base their moral decisions on their conscience
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Introduction The role of tacit and explicit knowledge in the workplace Elizabeth A. Smith The author Elizabeth A. Smith is Vice President of Summit Resources‚ Inc.‚ Houston‚ Texas‚ USA‚ and Adjunct Professor in Administrative Sciences‚ School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Houston Clear Lake. Keywords Knowledge workers‚ Information resources management‚ Motivation Abstract Knowledge plays a key role in the information revolution. Major challenges are
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we must have responsibilities for applying science to the optimum conversion of the resources of nature to the uses of humankind. Engineering is the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people. In cultural responsibilities of an engineer is that the engineer should keep up to date with the culture of the place‚ and do research into what their own specific environmental responsibilities are within the
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The debate concerning the laws of concealed carry on college campuses has been going strong since the Virginia Tech tragedy on April 16‚ 2007. Concealed carry should be allowed on college campuses. On one side‚ people oppose the right of concealed carry on campus stating reasons such as this one presented by Concealed Campus‚ “It’s unlikely that allowing concealed carry on college campuses could help prevent a Virginia Tech-style massacre because most college students are too young to obtain a
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all knowledge. Is this view reasonable or does it involve a misunderstanding of science or of knowledge? For many persons science is considered the supreme form of all knowledge‚ as science is based on facts and theories and it reaches its results through an approved scientific method. Consequently‚ it seems to be objective and thus more truthful and reliable. However‚ other persons argue that this is a misunderstanding of science. Hence‚ one should question what science and knowledge entail
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NGOs KUALA LUMPUR: Sexual harassment must be made a criminal offence to address the rising number of occurrences in the country‚ 11 NGOs said Saturday. As sexual harassment was not a crime in the Penal Code‚ employers could choose implement an ethical code against it or not‚ said Association of Women lawyers member S. Prema at a press conference at the launch of a joint committee consisting 11 NGOs in Petaling Jaya. The committee SH-out (Sexual Harassment out) is revisiting a campaign started
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