Corporate Social Responsibility And The Global Fast Food Industry

Labor unions were established as a way for workers’ needs and grievances to be heard by management. According to Fossum (2012), “forming a union creates a collective voice to influence change at work” (p. 7). The collective voice of workers in a union holds much more power than any single employee’s voice. It can loudly draw attention to mistreatment or abuse of workers. The organized collective voice of workers demands to be treated in a fair way by its management in terms of wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions.

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The framework of corporate social responsibility is such that it is relatively complex and multidimensional. A three-dimensional

In business, Anne Lawrence and James Weber (2014) identify enlightened self-interest as a corporation’s recognition that using corporate resource to serve others, including customers, employees, and the community as a whole, is in the best interest of the company. This social responsibility enhances the company’s image within the community, which increases both customer loyalty and satisfaction of employees. Some of the ways that businesses serve others is through philanthropy and backing environmental sustainability. Within his lecture on ethics and corporate responsibility, Dr. Kahlib Fischer (n.d.) encourages the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in that it provides mutual benefit to both the organization and the community.

While the public opinion towards unions has softened in the recent years, unions still face a monumental task in trying to regain, or even maintain membership levels. In order to maintain their current proportion of the workforce, unions must organize 300,000 workers a year. In order to even begin to approach the

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It is evident that curtailing the power of unions by reducing membership will not give employees more freedoms. It is also too risky to wait and see if right-to-work laws create new jobs opportunities. Throughout history unions have been the driving force in achieving positive changes for employees against companies that to this day are still putting “profits ahead of workers”. Unions battled and won the eight-hour day, child labor laws, overtime pay, pensions, and workplace safety regulations. So when companies cannot be persuaded to provide for their workers, unions become the organized force behind the

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is something that affects all companies and should be an active factor in the company’s decision making. It is something all corporations need to care about. CSR is when business’ or corporations take part in an initiative or campaign for a cause that will benefit society and/or in some way make the world a better place (Taylor, 2015). Initially, Corporate Social Responsibility started to take shape around the 1950’s, but some say that it dates all the way back to the 1800s, the idea of CSR was seen (Carroll, 2007). One may think that because it is dated so long ago, it doesn’t have an important impact today nevertheless, it is proven that Corporate Social Responsibility is a pathway for entities to self benefit as they are in the process of benefitting society.

McDonalds is very focused on the standards of the legal aspects. This is the case because McDonalds has dealt with many lawsuits since the corporation has been created. For example, in the famous coffee case,

All in all, the case has shown that although McDonald’s needed to adopt to certain industry changes in

The CSR concept appears from the 1960s in the literature on business but took off only from 1990

It seems that the objective of the CSR has been misconstrued. Every company must have its CSR activities keeping in view the needs of the locality where it is situated and also the prevailing environment.

Organizational structure and design also has a direct impact on a company’s success, no one does this better than McDonalds. “4 key forces shaping today 's organizations—buyer power, variety, change, and speed—and shows how to design a state-of-the-art organization that responds effectively and rapidly to customer demands”. (Galbraith, J. R. (1995). McDonalds has buying power due to its sheer size. Variety is definitely a tool used by McDonalds as there are many menu items to choose from. Meeting customers’ demands, is also something that McDonald’s adapts to easily, when something sales they provide when it does not they remove the item from the menu item, the speed in which they do this would not allow you to believe that this was a mechanistic company structure.

4. “CSR is only relevant for large private sector companies.” Critically discuss providing examples from SMEs, the public and civil sectors.

CSR can improve the company’s reputation and branding and this in turn improves the prospects for the company to be more effective to attract new customers and increase market share.