Corporate social responsibility (CSR, also called corporate conscience, corporate

citizenship, social performance, or sustainable responsible business/ Responsible

Business)
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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.
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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...
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