Green Policy In China Case Study

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

In this article, “The Truth About CSR,” authors Rangan, Chase and Karim stress the importance in aligning a company’s social and environmental activities with its business purpose and values (Rangan, Chase, & Karim, 2015, 41). Outcomes of CSR programs should be a “spillover” and not a primary focus of a business, expressing concern towards social responsibility and corporations failing to contribute to society accordingly (Rangan, Chase, Karim, 2015, 42). There is a great deal of importance in companies refocusing their CSR activities on a primary goal and in providing an organized process for bringing consistency and discipline to CSR strategies (42). Rangan, Chase and Karim want corporations to understand why it is important for them to evaluate their CSR activities and refocus them towards the goal of reinforcing the firm’s societal and environmental actions, while also ensuring their actions add to the overall purpose and values of the corporation. According to the authors, even though

China’s unethical and immoral uses of harsh punishment, low pay, and filthy dormitories. “China: Labor Conditions and Unrest” written in 2001 by Thomas Lum analyzes labor laws in China as a whole. The article pinpoints abuse in labor laws saying “labor abuses in some foreign firms include physical punishment, verbal humiliation, severe restrictions on movement, and lack of rest”, “physical punishment, including being struck or slapped and ordered to kneel or stand on a stool”, and “12- 13-hour work days without overtime pay, being fired without just cause, and lack of compensation for injury”. China fails to protect these workers from the hash punishment from the officials at the companies. China also neglects to punish the managers and factories for allowing these harsh conditions pass without acknowledgement. Within three years, “labor disputes have risen over 40% annually”, bringing much attention to labor in China. Despite the media covering the harsh conditions, and the labor-law breaking in these factories, the Chinese government brushes the issues off and develops temporary

As our population is growing, when we are taking it for granted to ask the nature for resource we want, environmental protection is becoming more and more important and necessary. Water protection is especially urgent now. We can see the water pollution is becoming worse. In this essay, I am going to talk about the recent situation of the water pollution, the bad effects of it and some ways help to solve the problem as well.

The use of CSR as a discipline has its foundation on past centuries, when some kind of social awareness was practiced by companies at the time, nevertheless most authors concur that from the 1960’s onwards, the developmental pace of the subject increase considerably and it became the real basis in which CSR stands in current times, each of the last five decades has played an important role for the discipline, especially the 1990’s decade when general social

Nowadays, the employment of ethical principles and standards to the decision and actions of business organizations-better known as Business ethics- is a crucial issue for its strategic management; businesses are expected to have a formal code of ethics or policy that encourages corporate environmental sustainability. To do so, businesses have used different frameworks such as the eco-efficiency, natural step, triple bottom line, ecological footprint and so on, in fact, along with the TBL approach the CSR programs are the most commonly used, it is defined as the “management of stakeholder concern for responsible and irresponsible acts related to environmental, ethical and social phenomena in a way that creates corporate benefit” (Vaaland et al., 2008, p. 931), and can help business to display a more congruent and coherent identity that consequently will lead to enduring and substantial relationships with stakeholders.

Starting out as a management concept, CSR is now vital in every decision a business makes as it is believed to be the true manner in which a business should conduct itself (Environics International, 2001, cited in Sepahvand, 2015, p.9). The purpose of this report is to provide a discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility and also identify the benefits and challenges brought upon an organisation. Firstly, the author will give a brief introduction to the company, Elephant House. Secondly, the analysis will examine various definitions pertaining to CSR.

The first phase of the Chinese economic reform was characterized by an emergence of rural initiatives and new modes of corporations such as TVEs. The central authority allowed vague ownership and, therefore, permitted the existence of transitional institutions that retained the pre-reform structures yet functioned to serve the contemporary users. In the industrial sector, however, at the beginning of the first phase, state-owned enterprises dominated the economic output when private foreign invested firms did not appear. Two decades after, SOEs only comprised of about one-third of the total output while collective enterprises and private firms occupied one-third each. This drastic drop of the power of SOEs was the result of both the

This paper will discuss the many challenges that organizations face in keeping corporate social responsibility a top priority of the business. It will also analyze the approach taken by Zhang Ruimin a top Chinese CEO. As well as review research conducted on how leadership impacts CSR.

Social corporate responsibility is the fashion of business world for the recent decade. Increasingly companies are getting involved with CSR and try to regulate themselves to the ethical standards and care

However, today not only is CSR thought of as a business’s self-preservation for future survival, but also one’s duty to be socially responsible to the earth and people. As defined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, "Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the community and society at large" (1990). Although CSR is not a mandatory policy among business, many managers are adopting practices to increase profits though reputation, brand, identity and status (Ilona and Ruta 2012). Unfortunately, CSR is not widely implemented within business approach, and the demise is communications of these polies internally and externally is low, thus resulting in less effective outcomes. If management could find a way to integrate CSR into a structured strategy with polices, and concise direction and guidance, CSR aspects could be pursued and achieved on a day-to-day basis. Many workers feel confused that no such strategies exist

One notable example of an organization that adopts significant CSR initiatives from a developed country is Starbucks which is an American multinational corporation. On the other hand, a considerable example of a company with significant CSR from a developing country is China Mobile which is still in its global expansion stage. The China mobile company is a Chinese multinational corporation. The two different companies offer an effective platform for comparing the CSR understanding and initiatives of different organizations from the developed world and from developing countries. What makes the examples even more effective is the fact that the two companies are different stages of development in the global business environment. This makes it

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has many facets and they are perceived and enforced very differently in different places. The concept of it is believed to be first discovered by the western culture. However some of the studies in Asian business patterns suggest that different cultures also have the concept of CSR putting in a different angle and norms in execution and standards of it. It is also discovered that the CSR schemes have different performance and relevance on affective the company’s brand image. The studies are scattered and examined the matter in different aspects and different industries’ case. There seem no particular patterns

The origin of Corporate Social Responsibility in businesses has no fixed date. Most experts, scholars, researchers, practitioners, writers, philanthropists, civil societies & conscious citizens opined that it can be carried out in an ethical and socially responsible manner. It is assumed that in the year 1960 corporate social responsibility began to emerge, and the civil rights movement, consumerism, and environmentalism greatly changed the way society expected the business world to behave. In the year 1970 there came the common use of the term CSR along with many attempts to officially define the phrase. In 1980, the new International Development Strategy focused on achieving a more stable world economy, stimulating economic growth, evening out social inequities and countering the worst impacts of poverty. While scholars from the 1970s into the 1990s wrestled with CSR concepts and developed stakeholder theory, numerous business leaders had independently articulated similar views on the purpose of business. Throughout this period scholars attempted to define, redefine, and clarify the concept of corporate social responsibility that they saw being assumed by, imposed upon, and played out by business. In addition, scholars sought to connect and integrate disparate principles and activities into a more comprehensive conceptual model.

Corporations that do not equip themselves with CSR activities will often be left behind with the increasing global competition and borderless markets, and international corporations with sound CSR activities grow stronger (Altman, 2007). As the education level increases, consumers are made more aware of the need for pro social corporate behaviour.