Topic 5b Org Man Sem 1 2013 -Social Responsibility

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Week 8 Learning outcome 4

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Juan Pellegrino & Eldrede Kahiya,

CPIT

This week covers: Chapter 2 (41-43) of the textbook

AMMA530 Management NZDB530 Organisation and Management

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Ethics and values

Ethical behaviour

Views on ethics

Ethical organisation

Week 7

Ethics

Week 8

Social responsibility

Difference between SR,

Social Responsiveness and

Social Obligation

Advantages and

disadvantages of SR

Week 5

Business Environment

External environment -

General & Specific

Internal environment -Org

culture



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LO 1: Summarise the advantages anddisadvantages of social responsibility

LO 2: Apply these concepts to a specificsituation.

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Society expects organisations and managers to be sociallyresponsible and ethical. Three related concepts:

◦ Social responsibility - organisation’s intention,

beyond its legal and economic obligations, to act inways that are beneficial for society.

◦ Social obligation –

Driven by economic and legal demands

Involves the minimum that the law requires

Only pursues social goals to the extent that they contributeto its economic goals

◦ Social responsiveness - when a firm takes social actions

in response to popular social needs.Copyright ©2011 Pearson Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group P ty Ltd)

– 9781442533622/Robbins et al/Management: The Essentials



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There seems to be emerging five common dimensions ofSR:◦ Environmental,

◦ Social,

◦ Economic,

◦ Stakeholder, and

◦ Voluntariness.

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Green management - considering and recognising theorganisational impact on the natural environment

Socially responsible management requires considering socialimpacts on society, through:

◦ Philanthropy

◦ Pricing

◦ Employee relations

◦ Resource conservation

◦ Product quality

◦ Operating in countries with oppressive governments







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Advantages of Corporate Social

Responsibility Public expectations

Long-term profits

Ethical obligation

Public image

Better environment by solving social problems

Discouragement of further government regulation

Balance of responsibility and power

Shareholder interest - long-term Possession of resources

Superiority of prevention over cure

Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter Foundations of Management 3e © 2009 Pearson Education Australia

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Violation of profit maximisation

Dilution of purpose

Costs of being socially responsible Too much power socially/politically for business

Lack of skills beyond economics

Lack of accountability

Robbins, Bergman, Stagg, Coulter Foundations of Management 3e © 2009 Pearson Education Australia



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Form a group

Choose an organisation that you know of

Think of examples of how the organisation you havechosen will address each the 5 dimensions of socialresponsibility (environmental, social, economic,stakeholder and voluntariness).

Share with the rest of the class what you found

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