Corporate Social Responsibility Management

Question: Write an Eassay on Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility? Answer: Corporate Social Responsibility is an aspect which almost all the Organizations think of in a critical way. The view of the concept starts with the thought that the business leaders or the people involved in the management of large Business Organizations are changing themselves to be ethical people in accepting various job roles where they could display good virtues. Apart from this it is also proved that the Organizations had their origin a long back and it is just not in these years that we are getting to see a major change in the ethical behaviors of People. The Organizations influence their ethics environment as they are personally responsible for framing their ethical code of conduct. The Business Leaders contend that the Organizational profitability is dependent on the ethical codes and integrity. In a free economy the social responsibility of business is to engage its resources and activities designed in such a way so as to increase their profits and stay within the rules of the game to open up to a free competition and stay out of fraud. According to a famous Economist James McKie The primary objective of a business is to make profit. Profits are to be kept reasonable or at marginal levels which can withstand the levels of competition. The Organizations follow a certain set of rules which they frame as a code of conduct and follow these ethical guidelines (Sherman, S 2003). The process of making ethical decisions starts at this point by implementing their written codes. According to Sherman, S Rethinking Integrity has made a profound presence in the laws of ethical codes of the Organizations. In the process of making ethical decisions it has been emphasized that there are 8 stages towards integrity. Doing the right things in the sense of making the right decisions at the right time, taking responsibility of any situation, supporting their own rights and maintaining a holistic thinking, respecting others, having a pulse check at different times this could be done at various stages like whenever a difficult or a challenging situation comes up, facing legal suits, facing competitors in a business and defining rules and values. Corporate social responsibility and diversity in the modern workplace is a major factor which comes up in the process of making ethical decisions. The Management people or the Business owners can do a great deal to shape the ethical environment however there are times when they are forced to get tempted or forced to make some bribes or be controlled by the corporate systems. This is the most incorrect thing which can place an immense pressure on an employee to get committed to do the incorrect thing for an alleged good or a product of the Organization. As emphasized by Holland in such cases the employee is presented with a choice between his career and morality (Holland, W, R 1996). The same is the case of Dalman which he has faced and I recommend that he should get the trash cans or the dumpsters moved or change the face of the doors so that he maintains that minimum distance of 30 feet which is required as if he bribes the Holiday party to the Officer he might come out of the situation only for once. When the Officer gets changed he might have to go through the same case again and the Management will end incurring more cost in the future. References Sherman, S. (2003). Rethinking Integrity. Leader to Leader, (28), 39-45 Holland, William R. "Ethics in a Plain Manilla Envelope: Simple Guidelines for Doing Business Honestly."IndustryWeek.March18,1996.