Introduction Nowadays, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not a strange idea for Hong Kong people. This idea is including few principal components which are social, governance, reporting and environmental, related to the work of operational practices, community involvement, environmental protection and environmental quality. Each of the distinctive stakeholders has diverse obligations and benefit. Stakeholders are included government, customers, regulators, shareholders, investors, suppliers, employees and communities. Whether big companies may do much better? Is it committed stakeholder expectations? What are the effects among the CSR of stakeholders? What are the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholders under corporate social responsibility? How the act of companies doing admirably of effectiveness under the CSR? Accordingly, a considerable lot of these questions are worthy of study. From the perspective of CSR in Hong Kong, the most far-reaching industry is the fast food industry. Information from the Census and Statistics Department shows that the highest GDP industry of Hong Kong in 2008 including fast food industry (CSR Asia 2011). On the other hand, the Fast Food industry does not assign responsibility because they cause obesity. They are assigned responsibility because of their connection to corporate responsibility. Such a demand cannot be understood under the prevailing, rather narrow liability understanding of responsibility (Schrempf 2013). A liability approach to corporate responsibility follows a legalistic mindset and assumes that an actor has responsibility if it can be proven that there is a direct causal link between an action and the harm (Honoré 1999). The focus on causality makes a liabil... ... middle of paper ... ...ty Management 31, pp.1143-1154. Tsoi, J. (2010) Stakeholders’ Perceptions and Future Scenarios to Improve Corporate Social Responsibility in Hong Kong and Mainland China, Journal of Business Ethics, February 2010, Vol. 91 Issue 3, pp.391-404. Welford, R. and Chan, C. and Man, M. (2007) Priorities for Corporate Social Responsibility: a Survey of Businesses and their Stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.15, pp.52-62. Windsor, D. (2006) Corporate Social Responsibility: Three Key Approaches. Journal of Management Studies 43, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1 January 2006, pp. 93-114. Witt, M. A. and Redding, G. (2012) The spirits of Corporate Social Responsibility: senior executive perceptions of the role of the firm in society in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and the USA, Socio-Economic Review (2012) Vol.10, pp. 109-134.
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Making a good and persuasive argument is very much an acquired skill. It requires much practice and perfecting. It takes more than just having passion and making good points. Just because a person is passionate about the topic or has supporting details does not mean they can make a successful argument. Much more thought and skill is required. Gordon Adams, in his letter to the Arizona State University standards committee, demonstrates this quite well. Gordon Adams writes a passionate argument, yet his argument lacks several critical aspects.
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Enterprises lay high emphasis on corporate social responsibility instead of being profitable tools. It is essential for all the enterprises to focus on corporate social responsibility which can help the organization creates long-term sustainability for corporate success. More specifically, corporate social responsibility can be referred as a process which is aim to embrace responsibility for the organization’s actions. Moreover, it can have a benefit to the people who are regarded as stakeholders, like employees, consumers and communities, which is based on its activities. Also, Tai (2014) states that corporate social responsibility is considered as corporate citizenship which tends to be an obligation that can protect, foster, and enhance
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Hence, the stakeholders which are described as those who are affected by the organisation performance ,actions and duties and those actions includes employees, clients, local community and investors as well. The theory of stakeholders also suggests that it is the responsibility of firm to make sure no rights of stakeholders are dishonoured and make decisions in the interest of stakeholders which is also the purpose of stakeholder theory to make more profit and balancing it while considering its stakeholders (Freeman 2008 pp. 162-165). In the other words organisation must also operates in a more socially accountable approach by carrying out corporate social responsibility as (CSR) activities.
In recent years, companies are becoming socially responsible and now stakeholders almost expect a company to have CSR policies. Therefore, in twentieth century, corporate social responsibility (CSR) became an important development in public life (Barnett, ND).Corporate social responsibility is defined as “the ways in which an organisation exceeds the minimum obligations to stakeholders specified through regulation and corporate governance” (Johnson, Schools and Whittington, N.D cited in March, 2012). Stakeholders can be defined as “those individuals or groups who depend on the organisation to fulfil their own goals and on whom, in turn, the organisation depends” (Johnson, Schools and Whittington, N.D cited in March, 2012). There are many purposes for this essay, the first purpose is to descried the key principles of corporate social responsibility and explain their importance for stakeholders. Secondly, is to show how far this company follows those principles in order to be accountable to at least three of its stakeholders. In this essay, three stakeholders, environment, customers and employees will be evaluated respectively and the key principles of the stakeholders will be examined.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a management concept which includes the set of policies, practices and programs that refers to the business actions, decision-making processes in order to maximise the positive impacts of its operations on external factors. The core content of CSR is the responsibility of the organisations in their business activities to not only the owner but also a wide group of stakeholder (customers, employees, suppliers and government). It is also related to the management of corporate citizenship and social responsibility problem....
An organization’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) drives them to look out for the different interests of society. Most business corporations undertake responsibility for the impact of their organizational pursuits and various activities on their customers, employees, shareholders, communities and the environment. With the high volume of general competition between different companies and organizations in varied fields, CSR has become a morally imperative commitment, more than one enforced by the law. Most organizations in the modern world willingly try to improve the general well-being of not only their employees, but also their families and the society as a whole.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a very familiar term in today’s world. Most of the successful companies try to be ethical and socially responsible toward their stakeholders. Because becoming ethical and socially responsible gains a lot in terms of profit or capturing more market share (Aras and Crowther,2009). This socially responsible approach is paved by the CSR activities of the companies which has a great contribution to their corporate strategy of winning the customers’ mind. In this assignment, the pros and corn of CSR activities of a particular organization a...
In the past, the only thing most of businessmen interested in is how to maximize profits of companies and cut the cost as much as possible at any price. Very few companies of that time worried about the moral values and ethics in doing business. And when the concept corporate social responsibility (CSR) first appeared in the 1950s, not much corporation appreciated it, businessmen in that decade “talked” more than “action”. However, the emergence of this viewpoint showed the trend of the way doing business of the world has been changing. (Carroll, A. B., 2008).1 CSR is a quite new term compare to long history of the consciousness about behaving ethically on society beyond maximizing profit, and just has only become popular since the 1990s, when the globalization has widen with an astonishing speed (Muirhead, 1999).2 International trading, investment in foreign countries become easier and more popular, large amount of profit are earned, more opportunities to seek as well as more fierce competitions and more challenges in new cultural environment. In that situation, corporations need to find some ways to increase reputation, to specialize their image and brand name, which is highlighting the importance of ethics and corporate social responsibility in business. This essay will describe briefly about corporate social responsibility, how it effects on international business, different opinions about CSR of shareholders and stakeholders, and finally, difficulties international organization face when implement a CSR program in Vietnam.
Business organizations regularly run into demands from various stakeholders groups when conducting day-to-day business. These demands are generated from employees, customers, suppliers, community groups, governments, and shareholders. Thus, according to Goodpaster, any person or group of people that can shape or can be shaped by attainment of the objectives by an organization is considered a stakeholder. Most business organizations recognize and understand their responsibilities to these groups and endeavor to honor and fulfill them. These responsibilities are often communicated to the public by a statement of principles or beliefs. For many business organizations, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an essential and integral part of their business. Thus, this paper discusses the two CSR views: the classical view and the stakeholder view. Furthermore, I believe that the stakeholder view has brought ethical concerns to the forefront of businesses, and an argument shall be made that businesses would improve both socially and economically if CSR, guided by God’s love, was integrated into their strategic planning.
In the current time of growth and progression, individuals should know that how a business not only flourish but sustain itself. Making profit is one of the main targets of every corporates but it must not be the only one. When an individual builds a company in order to do business, they should be well aware of their contribution towards the society as well as their business and employees in it. It is total strategy of all. We should be able to realize every increment contributes of it. One of the major factors that affect a business is how well it participates in Corporate Social Responsibility. According to (Werther & Chandler, 2006) corporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to a business practice that involves participating in initiatives that benefits the society. In authenticity, there is a whole lot to argue about it. There are no major guidelines that decides either a business is participating in Corporate Social Responsibility; what might be considered a Business practicing CSR to some, can still not be accepted for it by others. CSR may be restrained a term which his highly flexible. This paper will discuss about Corporate Social Responsibility and its
Corporate Social Responsibility is an organisation’s obligation to serve the company’s own interest and the one’s of the society. Moreover, Corporate Social Responsibility has a definition of a concept where the companies integrate social and the environmental concerns into their own business operation and also on a basis of voluntary with their interactions they have with the stakeholders. Corporate Social Resp...
Now-a-days it is considered that CSR is one of the major concerns of organization’s business ethics. Companies increasingly increase their corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethical management accepting the positive impact on the bottom line. The vast bulk of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies publish sustainability reports unfolding their program challenges and achievements. These pre-emptive efforts can pr...