Blood In The Mobile Essay

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It is a known truth that – A man who is devoid of ethics can prove out to be a demon, which is let free into the world. This phrase can be paralleled to a group of individuals who have a paucity of ethics, yet are living free in this competitive world. Blood in the mobile, is a great work of documentary by Frank Poulsen, which revolves around the reckless extraction of minerals. The mineral in the name of ‘Cassiterite’ is mined by unethical means in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
An Individual, who takes from the world, shall also do well for the world. The same can be applied to the big corporations who conduct business by using earth’s resources. Hence, these corporations have a corporate social responsibility to adhere to. Taking this into consideration, in the movie, the cell phone giant Nokia is engaged in extraction of minerals by unfair means, which is opposite to what the company should engage into.
Taking reference from the case, a corporate giant or even a small organization should set its base upon, what we
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There are five elements that instate the CSR policy of their company with their corporate strategy. To begin with, Centrality as an element defines the closeness of the association of the two things. However, in this case, Nokia has established a wonderful CSR strategy but has not put it into force thereby undermining the link. This is well known by the company and constantly makes a mention on improving upon it but has already turned a deaf year. Secondly, the specificity and the voluntarism to internalise and undertake the CSR policy is to be seen nowhere. It seems that the company has made its mention only in the Articles of Association, but hasn’t acted upon it. This makes it quite evident that the company isn’t proactive towards it and their efforts to voluntaries for it are not to be seen

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