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Corporate social responsibility, ethics, and diversity within the context of three organizations

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Choose three organizations in which you are interested. These can be organizations competing within the same industry or organizations representing different industries.

Compare and contrast each organization’s initiatives, policies, or values (as stated on their official website) regarding (1) corporate social responsibility, (2) ethics, and (3) diversity.

Write a two-page paper (maximum) that compares and contrasts the three organizations’ initiatives. Be certain to include the websites of the organization used to access the information by creating a references page as a document.

Corporate Social Responsibility

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Research about the same company that you researched for your assignment in week 2. For example, if you are writing the paper in week two about Walmart’s CSR, you have to research the same company’s SWOT analysis for this week’s assignment.

Then, compare with other similar companies and explain differences between the similar companies. Also, what would you change if you were one of the executives in that firm?

Corporate Social Responsibility

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ntroduce your understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility and choose any public company and analyze how do that company’s stakeholders view CSR. Then, in your paper, please explain how they are collaborating within the firm and their most important approaches. Also, what would you change if you were one of the executives in that firm?

 

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TaskWhether to adopt the broad or narrow view of corporate social responsibility (CSR) presents an ethical
dilemma for some business professionals. To explore this:
1. Construct an argument for the broad view of CSR. Present your work in an essay.
2. Use Kantian theory to assess whether the broad view of CSR is ethical.
PLEASE NOTE: Extra resources will be provided in your Interact site that clearly explain the task,
It is strongly recommend that you:
• listen to the voice-over PowerPoint provided
• refer to the assessment rationale and the marking rubric provided below
These should all assist your understanding of the task, and how marks will be allocated.
Your essay should consist of the following:
• Title Page – include your name, student number, subject code, and assessment number.
• Introduction – Your introduction should include an a brief outline of the contents of the essay,
including a statement about your findings.
• Body of the essay – This section should contain a discussion of the issues and debates associated
with CSR, your position, and application of theory.
• Conclusion – This should be a summary of the essay. Remember not to introduce new ideas here.
• References – Please provide a complete list of references (see link to CSU’s referencing guide in the
‘Requirements’ section below).
Rationale
This task is designed to measure the following learning outcomes where students should be able to:
• solve real life ethical dilemmas; and
• describe the issues and debates associated with corporate social responsibility

scholarly article related to Corporate Social Responsibility in the library

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In Module 2 SLP, you will locate a scholarly article related to Corporate Social Responsibility in the library. Then, you will write a 2- to 3-page paper, in which you will summarize the article, and state why the article is an important contribution to the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR).
Required Reading

Refer to the Background section of Module 2 for required and optional readings.

Assignment

In a well-written, 2- to 3-page paper, evaluate a scholarly article related to CSR, and discuss the merit of the article for today’s organizations.

Keys to the Assignment

Visit the library, and find a scholarly article related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
1. In 1-2 paragraphs, define what is meant by CSR.
2.Briefly summarize the article (1-2 paragraphs).
3.Discuss the contribution of the article to our knowledge of CSR – i.e., discuss why the article is important to our understanding of CSR. In short, why does this article matter?
4.Be sure to use at least one additional source from the library (other than your chosen article) to support your discussion and analysis (choose a source that is not included in the Background section of Module 2).
5.Follow the guidelines in The Student Guide to Writing a High Quality Academic Paper
6.You are expected to demonstrate evidence of critical thinking – as defined in the Module 2 background materials and the grading rubric.
Virtue ethics can be traced as far back as Plato and Aristotle. Of course, virtues include such traits as fairness, self-control, and generosity. It is not difficult to understand how such characteristics – or virtues – as honesty and integrity would be relevant in the context of business ethics. In this module, we will use virtue ethics as a lens through which we will evaluate an organization’s business practices.

The following sources provide a very good overview of virtue ethics:

Velasquez, M., Andre, C., Shanks, T., & Meyer, M. J. (2008). Ethics and virtue. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Retrieved from http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/ethicsandvirtue.html

Virtue ethics. (2011). Seven Oaks Philosophy. Retrieved from http://www.sevenoaksphilosophy.org/ethics/virtue.html

In the SLP, we will be exploring the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR. It has been said that business leaders are never asked about their personal sense of ethics these days – at least not until they are seated in front of a legislative committee. It would seem that there is an abundance of truth in this statement – that is, we don’t often think about our organizational leaders’ sense of ethics until they’ve gotten themselves into serious legal trouble.

All of this begs the question of whether highly ethical organizational cultures are more apt to produce ethical behaviors. Common sense tells us that they would. But if this is true, then why don’t all – or perhaps most – organizations have ethical behaviors? One possible answer might be that building an ethical organization requires a lot of money, a lot of know-how and emphasis, a lot of dedicated people, and a lot of organizational energy.

Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, begins with engagement – that is, a company’s engagement with internal and external stakeholders (not “stockholders,” but stakeholders – those individuals or entities that have some interest in the company – e.g., employees, stockholders, potential investors, suppliers, buyers, the government, and the community-at-large). Begin by reading the following articles related to CSR, and what it means for organizations to be “socially responsible”:

Brooks, C. (2013, May 22). Social responsibility no longer optional for businesses. Business News Daily. Retrieved from http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4528-social-responsibility-not-optional.html

Fallon, N. (2014, December 22). What is corporate social responsibility? Business News Daily. Retrieved from http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4679-corporate-social-responsibility.html

Optional Reading

The following article is also a very good overview of CSR. The article raises the pointed question as to whether organizations should choose to be socially responsible because of the derived financial benefits, or because being socially responsible is simply the right thing to do:

Perakis, E. (2009, April). Corporate responsibility: A business driver or an ethical obligation? Global Focus, 3(2), 60-63. Retrieved from ProQuest.