Business Research Report Corporate Ethical and Social responsibility Presented to: Western Governors University Assessment Code: RWT1 – Competency 318.2.2 Student Name: Richard P. Shields Student ID: 92502 Date: August 7, 2009 Mentor Name: Rungrudee Suetorsak, Ph.D. Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research Findings 5 1. Organization Environmental responsibilities: 5 2. Organizational image: 5 3. Organization Increase profits: 6 Recommendations 7 Conclusion…

What are the major ethical issues in the case? One of the most prevalent ethical issues in the Walmart case is their labor practice. There are several violations against Walmart regarding wages and work hours of its employees. “Its labor practices have been increasingly questioned. THe company has been accused of paying wages so low that workers cannot live off them, making employees work ‘off the clock’ without overtime pay, paying few and low benefits, and taking advantage of illegal immigrants”…

The responsibility of a business goes beyond just turning a profit, they also have an obligation to society. The stakeholders; consumers, employees, the community and the environment, all have a variety of needs that should be met by the company. These needs can include things such as safer more affordable products for the consumer, fair wages and good working conditions for the employee, or environmentally safe production practices that cut down on pollution for the community. Meeting these needs…

is the most competent in their industry. Their strategies and business model have led them to achieve success and make them the worlds largest retailer. In this essay I will analyze Walmarts business model and how their succes has affected to the Corporate Social Responsibility. First of all, what does Corporate Social Responsibility means? When we are talking about corporate responsibility, we talk about active and voluntary social, economic and environmental improvement contribution from companies…

In contrast, this research shows that the impact of corporate social responsibility can extend beyond public relations and customer goodwill to influence the way consumers evaluate a company 's products. Specifically, this research documents that acts of social goodwill--even when they are unrelated to the company 's core business, as in the case of charitable giving--can alter product perceptions, such that products of companies engaged in prosocial activities are perceived as performing better…

CSR Corporate Social Responsibility: A Value Adding Business Function Prepared by: Randeep Moore Student ID: 301064174 BUS 421: Kim Trottier Abstract This paper examines the similarities and findings of three academic papers related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in accounting. Assumptions are made regarding the importance of CSR to the success of businesses. By looking at three different pieces of literature from the accounting field, there is strong evidence that suggests…

1. Apple Business model and corporate social responsibility 1.1 Business model involves the relation of the business’ strategy, organization and the revenue streams (Lazonick, Mazzucato & Tulum, 2013, p.250). The elements included are products/service offering, customers, operations, infrastructure, costs, competitive advantage and input/transformation/output (Stokes, Wilson &Mador, 2010, p 323) digitalbusinessmodelguru.com Key partnerships: All the elements, device layout, collection activities…

Corporate Ethical and Social Responsibility – Apple Company Apple Company is one of the largest manufacturers of computers and electronics. “Apple Company was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought forth a new company vision of changing the way people, viewed computers” (Library of Congress, 2008). The ethical and social responsibility of Apple Company should have started with its inception; however, it did not. It was not until years later with the…

Corporate Social Responsibility: Should we, or should we not. Corporate Social Responsibility (C.S.R.) is a theory practiced in the business sphere since fifty years. It refers to the duty of business organizations to adopt certain activities that will benefit the society in some way. Charity, health-awareness campaigns are few examples that a business undertakes to fulfil its objectives of C.S.R. According to this ideal, it is important for various corporations today to undertake such social activities…

BUSN9239 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION SEMESTER 2 2014 GROUP CONTEMPORARY ISSUE REPORT SLAVERY AT SEA – ETHICAL, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN LABOR ISSUES ABHISEK JOSHI () MAJED ALANAZI () NORFADZLIANA KHAIRUL FAHMY () POONAM KAUR RANJIT SINGH (2099656) YASHWANTH DEVARAJULU () INTRODUCTION Slave is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them; works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation, or; is excessively…