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Dr Lance Moir
June 2006
Structure
• Current Pressures
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What is corporate responsibility?
Environment
Economic
Social
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What is Corporate Responsibility?
• Stakeholder engagement
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The issues being addressed by CR
• Supply chain
• Human rights
• Plant closures
• Charitable giving
• Work life balance
• Cause related marketing
• Environmental pollution
• Sustainability……
These mean different things to different firms
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World-wide critical events and issues
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The Global Compact
• Human Rights
– Human Rights within sphere of influence
– Complicity with rights violations - repression & conflict
• Labour
– The right to collective bargaining & freedom of association
– Eliminate forced and compulsory labour
– To effectively abolish child labour
– To end discrimination in the workplace
• Environment
– To support a precautionary approach to the environment
– Promote greater environmental responsibility
– Encourage the diffusion of environmentally friendly technology
• Anti- Corruption
– Work against all forms of corruption, including extortion and bribery
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What is corporate social responsibility?
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Four-Part model of Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate contributions.
DESIRED of
Philanthropic Programs supporting community/education.
business by Community involvement/improvement; volunteerism
society
Avoid questionable practices.
EXPECTED of Respond to “spirit” of laws.
Ethical business by society Assume law is a floor behavior; operate above minimum required
by law.
Assert ethical leadership.
Be profitable.
REQUIRED of Maximise sales revenue.
Economic business by society Minimize costs (administrative, production, marketing, distribution).
Make wise strategic decisions.
Source: Carroll (1979)) Be attentive to dividend policy
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Categories in the Three Domain Approach
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How do firms look at CSR?
and
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The Management of Corporate Responsibility
• Traditional (cost-benefit)
Zadek (2001)
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Stakeholders
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Issues with stakeholders
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Customers
Q Could you tell me, in your own words, what you think is
meant by the term corporate social responsibility?
Being profitable/successful 4%
2003
%
Important 82
Not important 18
49% Net +64
Fairly important
Base: 1,044 GB adults 16+ July - August 2003 Source: MORI
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Priority Activities
Q Which areas do you feel it is extremely or very important that
large companies contribute to or support?
Change
‘02-‘03
Top mentions +
Education 64% -2
Recycling 60% -1
Unemployment/re-training
schemes 58% -2
Q Thinking now about the organisation that you work for, how
important is it to you that your own employer is responsible
to society and the environment?
Not all
important 1%
No opinion 1%
Not very
important
6%
Very
Fairly important
important 33%
59%