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Week 8 Learning outcome 4
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Juan Pellegrino & Eldrede Kahiya,
CPIT
This week covers: Chapter 2 (41-43) of the textbook
AMMA530 Management NZDB530 Organisation and Management
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Ethics and values
Ethical behaviour
Views on ethics
Ethical organisation
Week 7
Ethics
Week 8
Social responsibility
Difference between SR,
Social Responsiveness and
Social Obligation
Advantages and
disadvantages of SR
Week 5
Business Environment
External environment -
General & Specific
Internal environment -Org
culture
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LO 1: Summarise the advantages anddisadvantages of social responsibility
LO 2: Apply these concepts to a specificsituation.
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Society expects organisations and managers to be sociallyresponsible and ethical. Three related concepts:
◦ Social responsibility - organisation’s intention,
beyond its legal and economic obligations, to act inways that are beneficial for society.
◦ Social obligation –
Driven by economic and legal demands
Involves the minimum that the law requires
Only pursues social goals to the extent that they contributeto its economic goals
◦ Social responsiveness - when a firm takes social actions
in response to popular social needs.Copyright ©2011 Pearson Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group P ty Ltd)
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There seems to be emerging five common dimensions ofSR:◦ Environmental,
◦ Social,
◦ Economic,
◦ Stakeholder, and
◦ Voluntariness.
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Green management - considering and recognising theorganisational impact on the natural environment
Socially responsible management requires considering socialimpacts on society, through:
◦ Philanthropy
◦ Pricing
◦ Employee relations
◦ Resource conservation
◦ Product quality
◦ Operating in countries with oppressive governments
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Advantages of Corporate Social
Responsibility Public expectations
Long-term profits
Ethical obligation
Public image
Better environment by solving social problems
Discouragement of further government regulation
Balance of responsibility and power
Shareholder interest - long-term Possession of resources
Superiority of prevention over cure
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Violation of profit maximisation
Dilution of purpose
Costs of being socially responsible Too much power socially/politically for business
Lack of skills beyond economics
Lack of accountability
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Form a group
Choose an organisation that you know of
Think of examples of how the organisation you havechosen will address each the 5 dimensions of socialresponsibility (environmental, social, economic,stakeholder and voluntariness).
Share with the rest of the class what you found
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