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Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Policy

Create a 4-5 page corporate policy that addresses an organization-wide ethical issue that impacts multiple levels of stakeholders.

Introduction

Consider how leaders contribute to the ethical profile of an organization and how organizational structures can either support or create vulnerabilities for operating in an ethically sound manner. Where do you see gaps that may be mitigating against an atmosphere that encourages self-regulating ethical behavior? Once you find these gaps, your challenge is to examine strategies that can both remedy and even create model practices for maintaining an ethical base of operating.

Employees are a special group of stakeholders that deserve our attention. As at-will employment and outsourcing become more common, many employees who trusted their employers and expected a lifetime relationship have been shocked by the lack of relationship between themselves and their employer. At the same time, employers say that they have never paid more for benefits or been more accountable for their behavior toward employees. These are just some of the difficult issues within the changing twenty-first-century workplace-all of which speak to our personal and professional ethical boundaries.

Overview

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is defined in several ways. From an ethical perspective, CSR may be used to “cultivate a broad view of their own self-interest while searching for ways to align that self-interest with the larger public good.” There are many ethical dilemmas today that impact companies, such as:

  • Harassment.
  • Discrimination.
  • Nepotism.
  • Unequal pay.

In this assessment, we will look at CSR, what it involves, and how to create a corporate policy for a selected ethical dilemma. For example, if the chosen ethical dilemma is discrimination in the workplace, your paper should discuss how a policy could be created, communicated, and implemented to reduce or eliminate instances of discrimination as well as the consequences if discrimination were to occur after the policy was implemented. This exercise will help you to understand how CSR can be a force for good, not just in the company, but in the larger arena of the public good, and how you can have a positive impact via the policy you create.

Reference:

Mayer, D., & O’toole, J. (2010). Good business: exercising effective and ethical leadership. Routledge.

Instructions

For this assessment, consider how a company’s social responsibility can affect the workplace, stakeholders, clients, and other outside parties. In your paper, address these questions:

  • How can a company’s social responsibility policy complement its obligation to maximize profits for shareholders?
  • How does the ethical issue itself affect employees, stakeholders, clients, and other outside parties, considering the specific company issue? What are the positive and negative outcomes?
  • What ethical decision-making approaches would you incorporate into your policy? How would your policy solve the ethical issue?

Follow these steps to complete the assessment. For all of these steps, make sure you provide examples and information from credible sources to support your writing and claims.

  • Step 1: Analyze how corporate social responsibility policies can both complement and conflict with profit-maximizing goals.
    • Explain how robust corporate social responsibility policies can enhance a company’s reputation and public perception.
    • Examine how having responsible corporate social responsibility policies support a company’s sales and marketing efforts, and ultimately, the bottom line.
  • Step 2: Assess how an organization-wide ethical dilemma impacts the organization internally and other outside parties.
    • Describe, in detail, the organization-wide ethical issue.
    • Describe these impacts and how they affect each category:
      • Employees.
      • Stakeholders.
      • Clients.
      • Other outside parties.
    • Explain how these different categories are interrelated and why an organization needs to address the ethical dilemma through corporate policy.
    • Discuss the ramifications or outcomes that might occur if the ethical dilemma is addressed or not addressed.
  • Step 3: Explain how a selected ethical approach is suitable to address the organization-wide issue.
    • Describe, in detail, the selected ethical approach that you would incorporate into your policy.
    • Connect the approach to the ethical issue and describe how the approach is suitable to address the issue with multiple stakeholders. Provide examples and possibly data from other organizations with similar ethical issues.
  • Step 4: Create a corporate policy that can help resolve an ethical issue.
    • Identify the essential parts of a corporate policy, then explain how these parts address the impacts from these perspectives:
      • Employees.
      • Stakeholders.
      • Clients.
      • Other outside parties.
    • Create an actual corporate policy that addresses the ethical issue.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

  • Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message. Communicate in an exemplary and professional manner through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing.
  • Font: Arial, 12-point.
  • Page length: 4–5 pages.
  • Citations: Include complete citations of your sources. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources. You can also use the Writing Center, Writing Support, and Wayfinding the Writing Center [DOCX]  as resources to help you with the writing process.

Review the assessment scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be graded.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Evaluate the parameters for ethical decision-making in 21st-century multi-cultural business environments.
    • Explain how a selected ethical approach is suitable to address the organization-wide issue.
  • Competency 2: Assess the impact of corporate social responsibility policy.
    • Analyze how corporate social responsibility policies can both complement and conflict with profit-maximizing goals.
    • Assess how an organization-wide ethical issue impacts the organization internally and other outside parties.
    • Create a corporate policy that can help resolve an ethical issue.
  • Competency 4: Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
    • Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Creating an Ethical Culture

Write a 4-5 page response that includes an analysis of ethical culture components, a plan for creating an ethical corporate culture, and recommendations to sustain an ethical corporate culture.

Introduction

In the global economy, we see law and ethics wrestling with similar issues; laws from different jurisdictions and ethical codes from different cultures may clash or not connect. How can these parallel systems be reconciled? Considering the legalities of ethics and how the two are intertwined reveals insights into how ethical cultures are fostered.

Learning strategies are also key elements in the fostering of ethical cultures. And lastly, the types of communication used and ethical codes are important features in how ethical corporate cultures are nourished and sustained.

Overview

Creating an ethical culture within an organization or company is key; it is one thing to know about ethics, but it is entirely different to actually create an ethical culture. So how do you create an ethical culture?

Multiple strategies and actions can be used, all of which are valid and important. But as the rule of effective presentations states, you have to tell people what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then recap what you have told them. In other words, reinforcement is key to understanding. In order to successfully create an ethical culture, multiple tools and messages should be used. Completing this assessment will help you to understand how and why using multiple strategies is important for creating an ethical culture.

Instructions

You are an ethics consultant and just landed a consulting project for an organization. Your client has hired you to design a plan with recommendations to create an ethical corporate culture. For the purpose of this assessment, you can “work” with a company you are interested in or familiar with. Feel free to select the company you are currently working at, a company you admire, or a company that you think could benefit from an ethical corporate culture makeover.

There are many practical applications of ethics and ways to foster an ethical culture. If you explored the suggested resources for this assessment, you have encountered several strategies.

Follow these steps to complete the assessment. For all of these steps, make sure you provide examples and information from credible sources to support your writing and claims.

  • Step 1: Analyze the components that make up an ethical corporate culture.
    • Describe the components that constitute a company’s corporate culture:
      • What are the company’s values?
      • What are the company’s ideals?
      • What are the company’s assumptions?
    • Explain how all of these components work together to create a company’s ethical corporate culture.
  • Step 2: Design a plan for creating an ethical corporate culture.
    • Explain how you will go about designing a plan to help your client create an ethical corporate culture.
    • Analyze the organization’s current corporate climate including its ethical culture.
    • Describe the ethical behaviors demonstrated in this organization, such as their business practices. Also, include how people or the general public perceive the ethics of this organization based on the current corporate climate and business practices.
    • Explain how you will know if people are adopting the new ethical corporate culture. For example, if you created an educational program, you might track the number of people who complete the program.
  • Step 3: Recommend learning strategies to foster ethical corporate culture.
    • Recommend 3–4 learning strategies for your selected organization that will foster ethical corporate culture, including how you will employ them to sensitize employees to ethical issues.
    • Explain why your recommendations are appropriate and will provide the desired outcomes. Be sure to connect your rationale to the analysis of the organization’s current climate and ethical culture.
    • Select three learning strategies that can be used to help support employees and explain why these are the appropriate strategies.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

  • Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message. Communicate in an exemplary and professional manner through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing.
  • Font: Arial, 12-point.
  • Page length: 4–5 pages.
  • Citations: Include complete citations of your sources. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources. You can also use the Writing Center, Writing Support, and Wayfinding the Writing Center [DOCX] as resources to help you with the writing process.

Review the assessment scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be graded.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Evaluate the parameters for ethical decision-making in 21st-century multi-cultural business environments.
    • Analyze the components that make up an ethical corporate culture.
    • Design a plan for creating an ethical corporate culture.
    • Recommend learning strategies to foster ethical corporate culture.
  • Competency 4: Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
    • Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Company Ethical Issue Identification

Prepare a 4-5 response paper that analyzes an ethical dilemma and makes recommendations to address that ethical dilemma.

Introduction

Once you have looked at the broadest dimensions of corporate and personal ethics, it is helpful to understand the theories behind the issues and to try different approaches in analyzing them. Challenge yourself to both assess your own reasoning within those prevailing theories and to understand differences in preferred modes of operating within the context of ethics and business. Your learning will be most rewarding if you take the time to reflect by assessing your previous ethical decisions and determining whether you would have acted differently given a second opportunity.

It is also useful to examine specific stakeholder issues in the external environment where board members, regulators, and consumers participate in the business process every day. To what extent should they shape or influence ethical behavior in business?

Overview

Ethical dilemmas within companies can have various forms Some well-known examples would be:

  • Gender inequality (paying a man more than a woman for the same work).
  • Embezzling.
  • Privacy breaches.
  • Inappropriate use of social media.

For this assessment, you should consider a suitable company-wide ethical dilemma and discuss why you believe it is a problem and how you would remedy the dilemma. This exercise provides the opportunity for reflecting on ethical issues in the workplace and helps you to better understand their impact and how fixing the issue can benefit everyone.

Instructions

You will first need to identify a current or potential ethical dilemma in a company. This could be a company where you are now employed, a former employer, a friend’s company, or another company that had an ethical dilemma that you may have read about in the news. The issue should also be something that needs to be addressed with an organizational policy inside the company, such as harassment, discrimination, embezzlement, or fraud. In other words, you believe that a policy change would be better than other courses of action (such as disciplinary action toward an individual employee, or external action by the government or a nonprofit) to remedy the issue. You do not have to create a policy at this time; you just need to explain why implementing a policy would be the right choice to address the situation or issue.

For example, a company may choose to videotape the office and read employee emails, so what’s the big deal? The conflict in this example could be that employees feel these practices are a violation of privacy and they feel entitled to a certain level of privacy. However, company owners and stakeholders defend these practices on the premise that they are ensuring employees are remaining productive and getting their work done.

Follow these steps to complete your assessment. For all of these steps, make sure you provide examples and information from credible sources to support your writing and claims:

  • Step 1: Analyze an ethical dilemma that needs to be addressed.
    • Describe the current ethical dilemma and how it affects various stakeholders.
    • Explain how the ethical dilemma warrants a company to take the time to address it.
    • Explain the implications of not addressing the ethical issue.
  • Step 2: Analyze the different methods for resolving the ethical dilemma.
    • Describe the different ethical methods that are available to be used.
    • Explain how these methods can be applied to resolve the ethical dilemma.
    • Explain the ramifications and consequences of not addressing the ethical dilemma.
  • Step 3: Recommend an appropriate method to address the ethical dilemma.
    • Explain how the organization can fix and address the dilemma.
    • Explain why you think your recommendations are appropriate and the right approach to addressing the specific dilemma.
  • Step 4: Describe how a specific ethical dilemma corresponds with larger issues on a regional, national, or global level.
    • Discuss how this specific dilemma could impact policies and regulations on a larger scale.
    • Incorporate the ramifications and consequences (discussed in Step 2) with your description of how the ethical dilemma could impact all levels.

Additional Requirements

Your submission should meet the following requirements:

  • Written communication: Write in complete sentences free from errors that detract from the overall message. Communicate in an exemplary and professional manner through clear, concise, well-organized, and grammatically correct writing.
  • Font: Arial, 12-point.
  • Page length: 4–5 pages.
  • Citations: Include complete citations of your sources. Review Evidence and APA for more information on how to cite your sources. You can also use the Writing Center, Writing Support, and Wayfinding the Writing Center [DOCX] as resources to help you with the writing process.

Review the assessment scoring guide for details on how your assessment will be graded.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

  • Competency 1: Evaluate the parameters for ethical decision-making in 21st-century multi-cultural business environments.
    • Analyze an ethical dilemma that needs to be addressed.
    • Describe how a specific ethical dilemma corresponds with larger issues on a regional, national, or global level.
  • Competency 3: Evaluate organizational policy within the framework of ethical standards.
    • Analyze the different methods for resolving the ethical dilemma.
    • Recommend an appropriate method to address the ethical dilemma.
  • Competency 4: Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
    • Write in a well-organized and concise manner that adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.