If You Are a Non Profit Looking for Partners in CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), Who Do You Contact?

If you are a non profit looking for partners in CSR (corporate social responsibility), who do you contact at a corporation or organization? What would their title be?

Answer: Corporate social responsibiltity officer

More and more, organizations are disengaging csr from the marketing function and dedicating a separate department in charge of community and social responsibility to coordinate their various activites.

A good resource on the subject is the magazine CR – Corporate Responsibility magazine. You can take a look at http://www.thecro.com/ They’ve recently published their 2010 Top 100 “Best Corporate Citizens” which could be worth a look also.

Should the Corporation Have Corporate Social Responsibility?

Question: should the corporation have corporate social responsibility?
why?

Answer: Companies should be a good citizen of the communities they serve. Most employees like to feel good about the companies they work for and socially responsible companies attract and retain the best employees.
However, if you look at the overall best performing companies, they are sometimes in industries like oil and gas, which are not always the most socially responsible companies.

What is Corporate Social Responsibility?

Question: What is corporate social Responsibility (CSR)?

Answer: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is all about companies playing a positive role in the communities they operate in. It can range from minimizing the impact the company has on the environment right through to contributing to local charities and initiatives to help make the community a better place.

For example my company gives its staff a week off every year to do voluntary work which the company co-ordinates including everything from clearing waste ground, refurbishing community centres, spending time helping out in local schools with reading and writing practice, acting as mentors to young offenders – there’s something to suit everyone.

Whilst I’m not naive enough to think that companies have an active CSR agenda for altruistic reasons, I think CSR is a win-win-win situation. The local community benefits, employees get the double feel good factor of volunteering and knowing they work for a responsible employer, and of course, the company’s image is improved.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is flourishing from non-existence to real existence. Elaborate this conc?

Question: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is flourishing from non-existence to real existence. Elaborate this concept in the country we are living in, Pakistan.

Answer: In Pakistan, companies like EBM, Nestle, Unilever etc have realized their social responsibility. Nestle Pakistan Ltd has a unique CSR profile which is inbuilt into its business model, their concept is to integrate rural development with market mechanism. If we look at EBM, their cultural ethos is of a “Caring Corporate Citizen”, that is giving back to community as a responsibility and obligation of a good management. EBM portrayed itself as a responsible company by responding immediately to the victims of earth quake and providing them not only funds but free of cost biscuits. Unilever is also actively participating for the betterment of society. Rose Petal is donating a proportion of their sales proceeds to WWF Pakistan for the preservation and nature conservation.

What is Social Responsibilities and Ethics of a Business?

Question: What is social responsibilities and ethics of a business? Please give me history, definitions, types, objectives, merits, demerits and significance with illustrations about social responsibilities..

Answer: The buzzwords are Corporate Social Responsibility.
What is CSR?
The entirety of CSR can be discerned from the three words contained within its title phrase: ‘corporate,’ ‘social,’ and ‘responsibility.’ Therefore, in broad terms, CSR covers the responsibilities corporations (or other for-profit organizations) have to the societies within which they are based and operate.
More specifically, CSR involves a business identifying its stakeholder groups and incorporating their needs and values within the strategic and day-to-day decision-making process.
Therefore, a business’ ‘society’ within which it operates, which defines the number of stakeholders to which the organization has a ‘responsibility,’ may be broad or narrow depending on the industry in which the firm operates and its perspective.
Other definitions of CSR:
The notion of companies looking beyond profits to their role in society is generally termed corporate social responsibility (CSR)….It refers to a company linking itself with ethical values, transparency, employee relations, compliance with legal requirements and overall respect for the communities in which they operate. It goes beyond the occasional community service action, however, as CSR is a corporate philosophy that drives strategic decision-making, partner selection, hiring practices and, ultimately, brand development. (South China Morning Post, 2002)
The social responsibility of business encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary expectations that society has of organizations at a given point in time.
(Archie B. Carroll, 1979)
CSR is about businesses and other organizations going beyond the legal obligations to manage the impact they have on the environment and society. In particular, this could
include how organizations interact with their employees, suppliers, customers and the communities in which they operate, as well as the extent they attempt to protect the
environment. (The Institute of Directors, UK, 2002)
CSR is a means of analyzing the inter-dependent relationships that exist between businesses and economic systems, and the communities within which they are based. CSR is a means of discussing the extent of any obligations a business has to its immediate society; a way of proposing policy ideas on how those obligations can be met; as well as a tool by which the benefits to a business for meeting those obligations can be identified….

What is The Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility on Companies and Employees?

Question: Can you add more, agree or disagree with what I wrote?
The search for Social Sorporate Responsibility has roughly the following characteristics:
Collective- Companies would not only have to report its performance to its shareholders, they would have to report it to its employees, media, the government and to the non-governmental environment and at last to the communities working in it. Companies would only have to gain the inclusion of its new social partners in the decision-making processes.
A more participative dialog would not only represent a change of the company behavior but it would also mean more social legitimacy.

Answer: Totally disagree with giving information to anyone but shareholders. It isn’t anyone else’s business what a company does. They have no social responsibility but most will try to be decent citizens having a united way drive or something.