Corporate social responsibility (CSR, also called corporate conscience, corporate
citizenship, social performance, or sustainable responsible business/ Responsible
Business) [1] is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms. CSR is a process with the aim to embrace responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere who may also be considered as stakeholders. The term "corporate social responsibility" came into common use in the late 1960s and early 1970s after many multinational corporations formed the term stakeholder, meaning those on whom an organization's activities have an impact. It was used to describe corporate owners beyond shareholders as a result of an influential book by R. Edward Freeman, Strategic management: a stakeholder approach in 1984. [2] Proponents argue that corporations make more long term profits by operating with a perspective, while critics argue that CSR distracts from the economic role of businesses. Others argue CSR is merely window-dressing, or an attempt to pre-empt the role of governments as a watchdog over powerful multinational corporations. CSR is titled to aid an organization's mission as well as a guide to what the company stands for and will uphold to its consumers. Development business ethics is one of the forms of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment. ISO 26000 is the recognized international standard for CSR. Public sector organizations (the United Nations for example) adhere to the triple bottom line (TBL). It is widely accepted that CSR adheres to similar principles but with no formal act of legislation. The UN has developed the Principles for Responsible Investment as guidelines for investing entities. Neutral, third-party verifiable process to understand, measure, report on, and help improve an organization's social and environmental performance.ethical audit Audits are designed to dig deep into company records to ensure reliability and accuracy in areas like accounting systems, financial reporting and legal compliance. Audits generally deal with quantitative, easily measurable data. Ethical issues, on the other hand, are more often qualitative or subjective in nature. A number of qualitative research techniques make an ethical audit possible, but an ethical audit still necessarily functions differently from any kind of financial audit. Considering multiple perspectives to gain a big-picture understanding of a company's commitment to ethics is the key to an ethical audit.
Step 1 Review the company's formal codes of ethics, ethics training programs and compliance policies for legal and industry guidelines regarding ethics. A commitment to ethics begins with formal policies in the employee handbook. Although having such policies in place does not guarantee real-world compliance, it is a vital first step in building a culture of strong ethics, and it can show how serious management is about ethical issues. Make sure ethics policies cover the full range of common issues in business, including discrimination, equal employment opportunity, financial management, sourcing, customer relations and the impact of company operations on the environment, the community and the world. Step 2 Look into past breaches of ethics through company records and archived online news sources. Begin by asking the business owner or an executive to discuss any legal issues the company has experienced, but do not let on that you intend to investigate on your own. If you find something the company representative tried to hide, it can be a large red flag pointing to a culture of dishonesty. When searching past news releases, look for any negative press about the company, and scrutinize the story for breaches of ethics. If any previous ethical lapses have occurred, speak with the company owner or an executive about what the company has done to prevent similar incidents from occurring since then and in the future. To make this information more measurable, create a timeline listing each past incident of a public breach of ethics, and analyze the frequency, rate and momentum of the occurrences. Step 3 Speak with employees regarding their impressions of the company's commitment to ethics. Take this opportunity to ask them to share their experiences about co-workers, managers and executives. Make sure all employees know their interviews are confidential and that honest answers will help to improve their organizations. Insiders know a large amount of information that the public, the press and government regulators are not aware of. Not every breach of ethics is illegal, either, and employees can be an insightful source of information on legal breaches of ethics occurring on a regular basis. To make this information more quantitative, look for patterns in the responses you receive and record the number of times specific issues come up. If you find employees frequently speaking about management's rude treatment of females, for example, note the number of times Ethics in Organizational behavior There are businesses that welcome employees opinions in order to help them run a better business and at times businesses do not prefer the opinions of their employee, but will run their business how they see fit. Either way some of these businesses can be successful and grow whether they accept the opinions of their employees. Even though Ethical behavior is not being influences, ethical issues are a major concern in organizations. Even though Ethical behavior are not being influences, Ethical issues are a major concern in organizations because, organizations influence ethical behavior in employees, and Individual influences impact ethical behavior. Not all businesses are out just to get a buck some of them actually do have morals and beliefs and do not want to go under their standards. First, Ethical issues are a major concern in organizations because businesses find it difficult to sum up what ethics are especially when doing business with other countries. An example would be Yahoo doing business with China. Yahoo has some issues with some of Chinas standards which they felt were conflicting with their moral standards. Ethics is difficult to define according to Kinicki, A., & Kreitner, R. (2009) The problem when discussing ethics is that there is not universal standard of ethical behavior. (pg. 22) A person can argue with this statement but the fact of the matter each person has their own idea of ethics. Additionally, organizations influence ethical behavior in employees. When employees see that the organizations that hire them are not ethical it tends them to be dishonest or quit. Ethics are right versus wrong and good verses bad and anything in between that has to do with solving issues in a situation. It does not help when management ignores the mission statement that tells what they stand for or are about. Management made sure that the employees read the mission statement after... [continue+YouSearchImagesMapsPlayYouTubeNewsGmailDriveCalendarMore