Csr And Its Impact On Human Rights, Labor Standards, And Environmental Protection

CSR is all about businesses understanding the effects that they have on the community/wider world. Businesses will use this impact in a positive way to

Based on my interpretation of CSR, I see it as a voluntary obligation that companies have promised to their stakeholders to fulfill by improving, or at least not harm, the environmental and social wellbeing. When companies engage in CSR, they voluntarily promise to, for example, carry the responsibility to protect the environment and take actions against bribe or other corruptive activities related to their business. It certainly has some positive influences to specific areas based on my knowledge gained from other classes; nevertheless, when judge CSR in the context of total impacts on our society and environment, it is obvious that CSR has failed its mission to lessen the negative impacts of business based on the evidences that provided by the author. Also, since there is a strong positive relationship between CSR behaviors and consumers’ reactions to a firm’s products and services, it seems to me, now, that CSR for the most companies is just a fancy cover that helps them to create or promote a good image and reputation. The recent case that shows the failure of CSR of Volkswagen even make me believe that CSR programs may be just a marketing or public relation exercise for many

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.

Let’s start with a detailed examination of the title itself: Corporate Social Responsibility “CSR”. The name pertains to the responsibility corporations carry towards the society due to their unique position of prominence in the daily lives of common man. Corporations are formed with a feature that characterizes their very foundations which is people’s stake in the performance of the company and, in turn, the effect that the corporations have on these stakeholders. The most significant and major part of these people are the shareholders who have invested their hard-earned money in the corporations of their choice. Besides the obvious monetary and financial returns that the investors expect from these corporations, people want the company that they have invested their money in, to be socially responsible. With increased climate change, global warming and other fatally disastrous effects of pollution and different harmful practices adopted during the manufacturing, packaging or supply of products, the public gives more value to the corporations with a proactive, deeply interested and positive outlook on the matter of their social responsibility. A company seriously concerned for the well-being of the people, the surroundings in the periphery of its impact and the side-effects its pursuit of profit maximization can have on these surroundings and

CSR is the obligations of the business to pursue those policies, to make those decisions, or to follow those lines of action which are desirable in terms of the objectives and values of our society. According to (Carroll and Shabana, 2010), CSR has also become one of the most orthodox and widely accepted concepts in the business world during recent years. According to (Sweeney and Coughlan 2008) and (Maignan and Ralston 2002; Wanderley et al. 2008), Organizations increasingly use CSR activities to position their corporate brand in the eyes of consumers and other stakeholders, such as through their annual reporting . communicating about social activities does not always benefit the communicating organization, notably because CSR communication may trigger stakeholders' scepticism and cynicism (Mohr et al. 2001; Schlegelmilch and Pollach 2005).Many organizations engage in CSR because they believe that it is in the organization’s best

There is a change in the expectation of employees, customers and shareholders which makes CSR more favorable in doing business today. It is a more sustainable way of doing business and those organization which are more involved in corporate social responsibility will most likely reap the rewards in the longrun.In today’s fast speed and digital world, each business despite its size need to have CSR program in place. Those without CSR programs must implement it as fast as possible otherwise they will lose valuable stakeholders in the long run.

Corporate social responsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms. The goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the company 's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Furthermore, CSR-focused businesses would proactively promote the public interest (PI) by encouraging community growth and development, and voluntarily eliminating practices that harm the public

There are many different concepts of CSR as well as practices. Depending on the business philosophy it can be implemented in various fashions. The goal of CSR is work toward a positive lasting change towards sustainability. Like financial controls and human resource management, corporate citizenship is integral to keep a business heavy.

CSR is a significant strategy adopted by businesses today. Hence, this paper begins by defining it and then dwells on why organisations depend on it. This paper also will present a summary of the activities of CSR followed at ‘Thistle, Heathrow, London’ which will also include the personal views of the writer on this topic.

During the workshop, I learnt how to define CSR. CSR can be defined using the CSR pyramid by Carroll in 1979. “Corporate social responsibility encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary (philanthropic) expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time” (Carroll, 1979). Those include economic responsibility, legal responsibility, ethical responsibility and philanthropic responsibility which make up the levels of analysis. Economic sustainability is the foundation of the CSR pyramid; it suggests that business require to make profit but also satisfy the needs of the customers and consumers. (Carroll A. , 1911) The second responsibility is legal responsibility; it suggests that the business should follow the law and regulation by the government (Carroll A. , 1911). The third responsibility is ethical responsibility; this suggests that businesses should not only imposed by law but what is expected from the society as a whole. For example, the oil company Shell “the decision of the government was reversed for disposing of oil platform after a campaign and disagreement by the society and public.” (Dudovskiy, 2012). The last

As a group, the community must analyze and criticize the behavior of its member in order to arrive at a consensus on the tolerance of business practices and behaviors. However, the community’s inclinations may provide an obstacle to the entry and continuation of business activity within the community. Governments, as representative of the community, will attempt to influence and regulate the behavior of companies to reflect the expectations of the community in which they operate, as is the case of government mandated. “The main idea behind CSR is

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.

Respect for International Norms of Behavior: For an effective implementation of CSR strategies, organizations should respect international norms of behavior. Even in places where there’s conflicting laws, the international norms should be upheld by all means.

This research study is about what the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is, how people define and how I understand this term? According to my research and observations, CSR does not have only one and constant definition. I have read a lot of definitions of CSR and in fact, they are similar but not the same. Briefly, definition and understanding of CSR depends on person to person. Thus, I am going to talk about definitions of the CSR and I will define my own perspective about the CSR.

There are now several concepts of CSR and its definition, along with the meaning across corporations. In my opinion, and according with our textbook in page 11. CSR is about a particular set of business and strategies that deal with social issues. In addition, we can clearly perceive that CSRs application along corporations has increase in the past decade due to the several local, and international regulations in order to enforce business to act responsible.