UNIT -1 INTRODUCTION OF STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT 1
Evolution of Strategy
Informally it was firstly introduced by Guru
Dronacharya in Mahabharata.
Formally Ansoff introduced it in 1965.
In India Corporate Planning term was used
by BHEL in 1974 then by Indian Telephone
Industry in around 1980.
After Liberalization in 1991 Corporate
Planning term was replaced by Strategic
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Meaning of Strategy
The word “strategy” is derived from the
Greek word “strategos”; stratus
(meaning army) and “ago” (meaning
leading/moving).
Strategy is an action that managers take
to attain one or more of the organization’s
goals.
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Definition Of Strategy
Strategy can be defined as “A general
direction set for the company and its
various components to achieve a desired
state in the future. Strategy results from
the detailed strategic planning process”.
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Definition Of Strategy
“The determination of the long-run goalsand objectives of an enterprise and theadoption of courses of action and theallocation of resources necessary forcarrying out these goals.’’
- Alfred Chandler
“Strategy is about being different. Itmeans deliberately choosing a different setof activities to deliver a unique mix ofvalue”
- Michael Porter 1-5
Nature and Scope of Strategy
Strategy is a major course of action through which an
organization relates itself to its environment particularly the
external factors to facilitate all actions involved in meeting
the objectives of the organization.
Strategy is the blend of internal and external factors. To
meet the opportunities and threats provided by the external
factors, internal factors are matched with them.
Strategy is the combination of actions aimed to meet a
particular condition, to solve certain problems or to achieve
a desirable end. The actions are different for different
situations.
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Due to its dependence on environmental
variables, strategy may involve a contradictory
action. For example, a firm is engaged in closing
down of some of its business and at the same
time expanding some.
Strategy is future oriented. Strategic actions are
required for new situations which have not arisen
before in the past.
Strategy requires some systems and norms for its
efficient adoption in any organization.
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Nature and Scope of Strategy
Strategy:
the Link between the Firm and its Environment
THE FIRMGoals & Values
Resources &
Capabilities
Structure & Systems
THE
INDUSTRY
ENVIRONMENTCompetitors
Customers
Suppliers
STRATEGYSTRATEGY
Strategic Management
Strategic management
the art and science of formulating,
implementing, and evaluating cross-
functional decisions that enable an
organization to achieve its objectives
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Defining Strategic Management
Strategic management is that set of managerial
decisions and action that determines the long run
performance of a corporation. It includes
environmental scanning, strategy formulation,
strategy implementation, evaluation and control.
The study of strategic management therefore
emphasizes monitoring and evaluating
environmental opportunities and threats in light of
a corporation’s strength and weakness (Wheelen
& Hunger, 1995).
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Defining Strategic Management
A strategic plan is a company’s game
plan.
A strategic plan results from tough
managerial choices among numerous
good alternatives, and it signals
commitment to specific markets, policies,
procedures, and operations.
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Importance of Strategic
Management
Strategic management is a combination of both strategies
and management activities in an organization. Strategies
are more important concepts to an organization, which
involves a choice of particular action or activities. An
active manager develops strategies to give order to how
an organization goes to achieve target objectives about
business. With out a strategy, there is no roadmap to
manage, coherent action plan for producing the intended
results etc. The ultimate purposes of strategic
management are to help organizations increase
performance through improved effectiveness, efficiency
and flexibility.
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Environmental Scanning
The total environment faced by an
organization can be divided into three
levels.
The Internal environment
The Task environment
The Macro environment
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Internal Environment
The internal environment consists of variables that
are within the organization itself but not usually
within the short run control of top management.
Firm should attempt to determine their strengths
and weakness by carefully analyzing these internal
factors. Steps can then be taken to reduce any
weakness and deploy available strengths to the
best possible advantage. Key internal factors
include the functional areas of human resources,
research and development, production, finance and
accounting, marketing and the overall organization
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The Macro Environment
The macro environment shape opportunities and pose
threats to the company. The macro forces are generally
more uncontrollable than the task factors. The factors
of macro environment are economic, political and
government, socio cultural, natural, physical and
technological and international. As the task and macro
environmental factors are beyond the control of a firm,
the industry’s success will depend to a very large
extent on its adaptability to the environment i.e. its
ability to properly design and adjust the internal
variables to take advantage of the opportunities and to
combat the threats in the environment (F.Cherunilam,
1998). 1-18
Task Environment
The task environment includes those
elements or groups that directly affect and
are affected by an organization’s major
operations. It is an external factor to the firm
that determines the nature and strength of
industry competitors, buyers, supplies,
potential entrants an substitutes.
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Strategy Formulation
Includes developing a vision, mission, and
values, establishing long-term objectives,
generating alternative strategies, choosing
particular strategies to achieve mission and
objectives and framing broad guidelines for
decision making (Policies).
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Stages of Strategic Management
Strategy formulation
includes developing a vision and mission,
identifying an organization’s external
opportunities and threats, determining
internal strengths and weaknesses,
establishing long-term objectives, generating
alternative strategies, and choosing particular
strategies to pursue.
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Vision
A clear vision helps in developing a mission
statement, which in turn facilitates setting of
objectives of the firm after analysing external and
internal environment. Though vision, mission and
objectives together reflect the “strategic intent”
of the firm.
Vision can be defined as “a mental image of
possible and desirable future state of an
organization” (Bennis and Nanus). It is
descriptive image of what a company wants to be
in future.1-25
Examples of Vision Statement
BBC: “To be the most creative organization
in the world”
Disney: “To make people happy.”
Google: “To provide access to the world’s
information in one click”
Amazon: “Our vision is to be earth’s most
customer-centric company, where customers
can find and discover anything they might
want to buy online.”1-26
Mission
A mission statement is used by a company to explain, in
simple and concise terms, its purpose(s) for being. It is
usually one sentence or a short paragraph, explaining a
company's culture, values, and ethics.
Mission statements serve several purposes, including
motivating employees and reassuring investors of the
company's future.
Mission statements serve a dual purpose by helping
employees remain focused on the tasks at hand, and
encouraging them to find innovative ways of moving
toward increasing their productivity with the eye to
achieving company goals.
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“To connect the world’s professionals to make them
more productive and successful.”
“To make it easy to do business anywhere.”
“To give people the power to share and make the
world more open and connected.”
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Examples of Mission Statement
Establishing long term Objectives
Objectives
specific results that an organization seeks to
achieve in pursuing its basic mission.
long-term means more than one year.
should be challenging, measurable,
consistent, reasonable, and clear.
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Policies
Policy is an overall guide that governs
and controls the managerial action.
Strategic decisions are the decisions that
are concerned with whole environment in
which the firm operates the entire resources
and the people who form the company and
the interface between the two.
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Selection of Best Strategy
Strategies
the means by which long-term
objectives will be achieved
may include geographic expansion,
diversification, acquisition, product
development, market penetration,
retrenchment, divestiture, liquidation,
and joint ventures
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Strategy implementation is the process of
turning plans into action to reach a desired
outcome. Essentially, it’s the art of getting
stuff done. The success of every
organization rests on its capacity to
implement decisions and execute key
processes efficiently, effectively, and
consistently. But how do you ensure that
implementing a strategy will be successful?
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Strategy implementation
7 KEY STEPS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION
PROCESS
If you're a manager who wants to implement
strategic change within your organization,
follow these seven steps to introduce and
roll out a new strategy successfully.
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1. Set Clear Goals and Define Key Variables
The first step of the process is straightforward: You must
identify the goals that the new strategy should achieve.
Without a clear picture of what you’re trying to attain, it
can be difficult to establish a plan for getting there.
One common mistake when goal setting—whether
related to personal growth, professional development, or
business—is setting objectives that are impossible to
reach. Remember: Goals should be attainable. Setting
goals that aren’t realistic can lead you and your team to
feel overwhelmed, uninspired, deflated, and potentially
burnt out.
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2. Determine Roles, Responsibilities, and
Relationships
Once you’ve determined the goals you’re working toward
and the variables that might get in your way, you should
build a roadmap for achieving those goals, set
expectations among your team, and clearly communicate
your implementation plan, so there’s no confusion.
Implementing strategic plans requires strong
relationships and, as a manager, you’ll be in charge of
telling people not only how to interact with each other
and how often, but also who the decision-makers are,
who’s accountable for what, and what to do when an
unforeseen issue arises.
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3. Delegate the Work
Once you know what needs to be done to ensure success,
determine who needs to do what and when. Refer to your
original timeline and goal list, and delegate tasks to the
appropriate team members.
You should explain the big picture to your team so they
understand the company's vision and make sure everyone
knows their specific responsibilities. Also, set deadlines to
avoid overwhelming individuals. Remember that your job
as a manager is to achieve goals and keep your team on-
task, so try to avoid the urge to micromanage.
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4. Execute the Plan, Monitor Progress and
Performance, and Provide Continued Support
One of the most difficult skills to learn as a manager is
how to guide and support employees effectively. While
your focus will likely be on delegation much of the time,
it’s important to make yourself available to answer
questions your employees might have, or address
challenges and roadblocks they may be experiencing.
Check in with your team regularly about their progress
and listen to their feedback.
One effective strategy for monitoring progress is to use
daily, weekly, and monthly status reports and check-ins to
provide updates, re-establish due dates and milestones,
and ensure all teams are aligned.
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5. Adjust or Revise, as Necessary
Implementation is an iterative process, so the
work doesn’t stop as soon as you think you’ve
reached your goal. Processes can change mid-
course, and unforeseen issues or challenges can
arise. Sometimes, your original goals will need to
shift as the nature of the project itself changes.
It’s more important to be attentive, flexible, and
willing to change or readjust plans as you oversee
implementation than it is to blindly adhere to your
original goals.
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6. Get Closure on the Project, and Agreement
on the Output
Everyone in the team should agree on what the
final product should look like based on the goals
set at the beginning. When you’ve successfully
implemented your strategy, check in with each
team member and department to make sure they
have everything they need to finish the job and
feel like their work is complete.
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7. Conduct a Retrospective or Review of How
the Process Went
Once your strategy has been fully implemented, look back on the
process and evaluate how things went. Ask yourself questions
like:
Did we achieve our goals?
If not, why? What steps are required to get us to those goals?
What roadblocks or challenges emerged over the course of the
project that could have been anticipated? How can we avoid
these challenges in the future?
In general, what lessons can we learn from the process?
While failure is never the goal, an unsuccessful or flawed strategy
implementation can prove a valuable learning experience for an
organization, so long as time is taken to understand what went
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Strategy evaluation
reviewing external and internal factors that
are the bases for current strategies,
measuring performance, and taking
corrective actions.
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Stages of Strategic Management
Strategy formulation, implementation, and
evaluation activities occur at three
hierarchical levels in a large organization:
corporate, divisional or strategic business
unit, and functional.
Strategic management helps a firm
function as a competitive team.
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Integrating Intuition and Analysis
Most organizations can benefit from
strategic management, which is based
upon integrating intuition and analysis in
decision making
Intuition is particularly useful for making
decisions in situations of great uncertainty
or little precedent
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Adapting to Change
The second-largest bookstore chain in the
United States, Borders Group, declared
bankruptcy in 2011 as the firm had not adapted
well to changes in book retailing from traditional
bookstore shopping to customers buying
online, preferring digital books to hard copies.
Borders was on the brink of financial collapse
before being acquired in July 2011 by Direct
Brands.
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Key Terms in Strategic Management
Competitive
advantage
anything that a
firm does
especially well
compared to rival
firms
Strategists
the individuals
who are most
responsible for the
success or failure
of an organization
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Benefits of Strategic Management
Historically, the principal benefit of
strategic management has been to help
organizations formulate better strategies
through the use of a more systematic,
logical, and rational approach to strategic
choice
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Benefits of Strategic Management
Communication is a key to successful
strategic management.
Through dialogue and participation,
managers and employees become
committed to supporting the organization.
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Financial Benefits
Businesses using strategic-management
concepts show significant improvement in
sales, profitability, and productivity
compared to firms without systematic
planning activities
High-performing firms seem to make more
informed decisions with good anticipation of
both short- and long-term consequences
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Nonfinancial Benefits
It allows for identification, prioritization,
and exploitation of opportunities.
It provides an objective view of
management problems.
It represents a framework for improved
coordination and control of activities.
It minimizes the effects of adverse
conditions and changes.
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Nonfinancial Benefits
It allows major decisions to better support
established objectives.
It allows more effective allocation of time
and resources to identified opportunities.
It allows fewer resources and less time to be
devoted to correcting erroneous or ad hoc
decisions.
It creates a framework for internal
communication among personnel.
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Strategic Management Process
The authors get following six stages/
functions of strategic management process.
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Corporate Governance
Corporate governance relates to laws, procedures, practices
and implicit rules that determine company’s ability to take
improved managerial decisions from social point of view.
It is basically a system of making directors accountable to
shareholders for effective management of the company
along with concern for ethics and values. It is a process or
a set of systems and processes to ensure that a company is
managed to suit the best interests of all.
The systems include structural & organizational / matters. The
Stockholders may be internal stake holders (promoters,
members, employees and executives) and external stake
holders (promoters, members, customers, lenders, vendors,
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Objectives of Corporate
Governance
To enhance the long term value of the company for its
shareholders and all other parties directly a indirectly associated
with it.
To provide norms for the relationships between company
management, its board, shareholders, owners, employees,
suppliers, customers and the public.
To promote the goodwill and reputation for the company and the
esteem of its management.
To attract, employ & retain talented and motivated employees by
encouraging participative Style of Management.
To create and adopt code of conduct whole hearted commitment
and improve the moral and ethical standards to performance of
the utmost level.1-56
To have a right balance knowledge and competence, to set
strategies and lead the organisation.
To use the available resources in most economic, efficient &
productive manner for the benefit of shareholders an well as
for the society at large.
To set the high standards of business ethnics based on
humanity, honesty & hard work.
To improve the standard of living of the society.
To generate accurate & reliable information.
To make decision making process transparent.
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Objectives of Corporate
Governance
Principles of Corporate
Governance
Commonly accepted principles of corporate governance can be explained
as follows.
a. Acknowledging rights of the shareholders and ensuring equitable
treatment to them. Organizations should respect the rights shareholders
and help shareholders to exercise those rights by ensuring effective
communication of information and encouraging them to participate in
general meetings, Organizations should also accept that they have legal
and other obligations to all legitimate stakeholders.
b. Role and responsibilities of the board:
The board needs certain skills and attitudes to deal with various business
issues and the ability to review and challenge management performance. It
needs to be of sufficient size and have a commitment to fulfill its
responsibilities and duties. The issues regarding the appropriate mix of
executive and non executive directors should the tackled properly. The key
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c. Integrity and Ethical Behaviour.
Ethical and responsible decision making is required for improving
public relations, managing risks of business and avoiding disputes. It
can be achieved by developing a code of conduct for the directors
and executives. In order to ensure ethical standards by individuals,
many organizations establish compliance and ethics programs.
d. Disclosure and Transparency –
Organisations should publicise the roles and responsibilities of
board and management so that they become accountable to
shareholder. They should also lay down procedures for verifying the
integrity of the company’s financial reporting. All investors should
have access to clear and factual information.
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Principles of Corporate
Governance
e. Accountability –
The Board of Directors should be accountable to the shareholders and
management to the Board of Directors. Both the Board and the management
must be accountable to the shareholders for the performance of tasks
assigned to them. It is necessary to ensure that there is an effective
management of resources and achievement of results with efficiency
coupled with empowerment.
f. Trusteeship:
Organisation should have both social & economic purpose. The Board must
ensure that the company fulfill its obligations & responsibilities to all its stake
holders.
g. Empowerment –
The management should be empowered to adopt dynamic & progressive
approach. Empowerment i.e. delegating decision making powers at the most
appropriate levels in the organizational hierarchy generates creativity and
innovation throughout the organization.1-60
Principles of Corporate
Governance
h. Ethics –
An organization must set specific standards of ethical behaviour
both within the organization & in its external relationships.
i. Oversight –
It means the existence of a system of checks & balances. It should
prevent misuse of power & facilitate timely management response
to change & risks.
j. Fairness to all Stakeholders –
It involves a fair and equitable treatment of all participants in the
corporate governance structure. There should be no discrimination
between any groups of stakeholders.
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Principles of Corporate
Governance
Corporate Governance Practices in
India:
In India, there are six mechanisms to ensure corporate governance.
a. The Company’s Act –
Companies in India are regulated by the Indian Companies Act.,
1956, as amended from time to time. To ensure corporate
governance, the Act confers legal rights to shareholders as under.
1) To vote on every resolution placed in an Annual General Meeting.
2) To elect directors who are responsible for specifying objectives
and laying down policies.
3) To determine remuneration of directors and the CEO.
4) Removal of directors and.
5) Take active part in the annual general meetings.
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b. Securities Law:
The primary securities law in our country is the SEBI Act. Since its setting up
in 1992, the board has taken a number of initiatives towards investor
protection. One such initiative is to mandate information disclosure both in
the prospectus and in the annual accounts. While the Companies Act itself
specifies certain standards of information disclosure, the SEBI Act has
added substantially to these requirements in an attempt to make these
documents more meaningful.
c. Discipline of the Capital Market.
Capital market itself has considerable impact on corporate governance. The
minority shareholders can play an effective role in this regard. They can
refuse to subscribe to the capital of a company in the primary market and in
the secondary market. They can sell their shares, thus depressing the share
prices. A depressed share price makes the company an attractive takeover
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Corporate Governance Practices in
India:
d. Nominees on Company Boards.
Development banks hold large amount of shares in companies which have
been given long term loans. Being equity holders, these investors have
their nominees on the Board of Companies. These nominees can
effectively control resolutions, which may be detrimental to their interests.
e. Statutory Audit –
Statutory Audit is yet another mechanism directed to ensure good,
corporate governance. Auditing enhance the credibility of financial reports
prepared by any enterprise. The auditing process ensures that financial
statements are accurate and complete, thereby enhancing their reliability
and usefulness for making
Investment decisions. The above mentioned mechanisms are regulatory in
approach. They are governed by law and violation of any provision can
invite penal action. But legal provisions alone cannot ensure good
corporate governance. What is actually need is self regulation on the part of
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Corporate Governance Practices in
India:
Board of Directors – Composition
The individuals at the highest level of
management are responsible for the
functioning of the company. These high-
level members of the company are called
directors. Collectively, all directors as a
group and the supreme acting authority of
the company are called ‘board of
directors’
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Section 149 of the Companies Act states that every
company’s board of directors must necessarily have a
minimum of three directors if it is a public company. two
directors if it is a private company and one director in a
one person company.
The maximum number of members a company can assign
as directors is fifteen. However, the company can pass a
special resolution in a general meeting to allow for
assigning more than fifteen members to the board of
directors.
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Board of Directors – Composition
The maximum number of companies that an individual can
become a director of, is 20 companies.
At least one director, who has lived in India for a
minimum of 182 calendar days of the previous year, shall
be appointed by every company’s board. It is a mandatory
rule.
At least, one woman director must be appointed by the
company.
All listed companies must have at least one-third
proportion of their board of directors as independent
directors.
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Board of Directors – Composition
Committees Under the Board of Directors
Audit Committee
Nomination and Remuneration Committee
Stakeholders Relationship Committee
Risk management Committee
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Role and Responsibilities of
Board of Directors
Recruit, supervise, retain, evaluate and
compensate the manager.
Provide direction for the organization
Establish a policy based governance system
Govern the organization and the relationship with
the CEO
Fiduciary duty to protect the organization’s assets
and member’s investment
Monitor and control function
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1. Greater focus on the E&S of ESG
Beyond the global emphasis on good
governance, environmental and social issues
appear to be taking the greatest precedence for
investors, moving from being a national or
regional focus to being a truly global
phenomenon. Boards and management alike
are mostly playing catch-up on how best to
define, integrate and oversee the E&S issues
that are material to their business.
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2. Increasing importance of corporate purpose.
Corporate purpose and stakeholder considerations
have been business norms in various parts of the world
for decades. In August 2019, 181 out of 188 member
CEOs of the US Business Roundtable signed on to an
amended Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,
putting aside the traditional view that maximizing
shareholder returns is priority one. This was followed by
a December announcement from the World Economic
Forum updating their 2020 Davos Manifesto (last
published in 1973) to center on principles that guide
companies into the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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3. Better board oversight of
corporate culture and HCM.
Investors are asking what the board is doing to ensure
the culture is robust and can withstand transformation
and change. Investors would like more transparency on
board involvement in culture and HCM (Human Capital
Management) to determine whether boards are
providing adequate oversight. Data and analysis on
corporate culture will play a key part in this oversight by
boards. Management will need to satisfy the board that
the company has the culture and talent needed to
successfully execute on strategy.
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4. More expansive view of board diversity
that includes ethnicity and race.
Considerable strides have been made globally around
board gender diversity. As institutional investor voting
power grew dramatically, so did demands for gender
diversity. This phenomenon will vary by country. In the
United States, it will be driven by investors such as
Vanguard. In the UK, it will be as a consequence of the
Parker Review. In Japan, the push to add more
international directors will also broaden board diversity.
In Canada, it will be the Business Corporations Act
legislation that will require federally incorporated
companies to disclose detailed information on the
diversity of board directors and senior management.
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5. Companies facing wider
forms of activism
Globally, investor activism continues to evolve
and grow, creating a kaleidoscope of styles and
approaches that change year to year. What
remains constant is that directors must
maintain a degree of vigilance, ready to
respond to activists or assuage the concerns of
investors.
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Definition of CSR
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
is a concept whereby organizations
consider the interests of society, based
on the impact of their activities on
customers, employees, shareholders,
communities and the environment, for all
aspects of their operations.
CSR as per World Business Council
“The continuing commitment by business
to behave ethically and contribute to
economic development, while improving
the quality of life of the workforce and
their families as well as of the local
community and society at large”.
Responsibility Pyramid in Business
Ethical Responsibilities
Social Responsibilities
Legal Responsibilities
Economic Responsibilities
CSR Prime Factors
1. Climate Change
2. Transparency in business practice
3. Fair trade and fair procurement
4. Corruption prevention
5. Labour rights
6. Health and Safety
7. Education
8. Income equality and fair wages
9. Poverty
Need of CSR
1. Reputation management /
Goodwill Creation
2. Employee attraction
3. Competition (in general)
4. Investor relations
5. Corporate liabilities /Legal
claims
6. Cost efficiency
7. Quality
Argument over CSR
Businesses do not have an unquestionedright to operate in society
Those managing business should recognizethat they depend on society
Business relies on inputs from society andon socially created institutions
There is a social contract between businessand society involving mutual obligations thatsociety and business recognize that theyhave to each other
CSR V/s Business
CSR should not be at Cost of Business
CSR should not affect Profitability of Business
CSR should be a Profit Center & not a cost component
CSR should only when business is prospering
CSR should be Meaning full
CSR is not a use as sword of ego
Top Indian Companies in CSR
- Ranking as per CII
Tata Group
BHEL
Wipro
Bajaj Auto Limited
Larson & Toubro
Otis Elevator Company
ACC
Asian Paints
SAIL
Colgate Palmolive
ITC
Sahara Group
Ashoka Leyland
CSR Activities in India
Starting social trusts
Anti pollution measures
Adopting villages
Family planning clinics
Training unemployed youth
Community development activities
Conducted social audits on a voluntary basis
Provide medical
Recreational facilities
To develop sports,
Undertake consumer education campaigns etc.
CSR Initiative is India
Tata Group – TIFR , TISS , Tata Cancer
Hospital, Ratan Tata Institute , JRD Tata
Lecture Series – Awards. Nationalization
of Tata enterprises
Ambuja Cement receives International
Reorganization for Di- Salianation Project
in Costal Gujarat
CSR Initiative is India
Wipro – Donation of 1/4th of Personal
Worth’s by Owners for Social Cause
JSW Steel in Dolvi – Pen , Maharashtra
Provides free electricity to nearby villages
through surplus of captive unit
Indian Automobile industry promotes use
of CNG for Public Transport
Solar Energy Street Lightning by various
corporate