Social and Environmental Responsibility Essay

In class we discussed a case study called “The Theater Budget” about an organization called Greater Euclid Little Theater, which is a small group of adults staging performances. The organization changed after Cathy Cole, the then newly artistic director was appointed. After Cathy Cole, left her position, Andy Spaulding took on the position as an artistic director. In the case study provided, the case starts with the discussion on increasing salary pay for Any Spaulding, however many board…

Who are Target's stakeholders? How do Target's CSR activities address its stakeholders' concerns? Mainly the target’s stakeholders are customers, employees and community. Targets address the stakeholders concerns by various CSR (corporate social responsibility) activities. CSR activities to deal with customers - 1. Face to face interaction with customers in stores 2.organizing online surveys and obtaining valuable suggestions (target CSR report 2012) 3. Applying health care strategies by…

As a Community Assistant for two semesters, I led a group of student volunteers to a local refugee family from Senegal home, where we worked with the family on English and becoming acclimated into their community. Additionally, as part of my responsibilities, I wrote a grant to supply resources for the family in order to assist in their acclamation of their community. My last semester of college, I was elected Chair of the Making A Difference Board at Providence in which the class distributed…

economic policies. The first main difference between the two is the fact that for-profit companies are generally founded to generate income for entrepreneurs and their employees, while nonprofits are generally founded to serve a humanitarian or environmental need. In term of financial policies, non-profit organizations place all their donations and financial means into their programs, services, research, education etc., in order to help raise awareness to help support their cause. On the other…

Situation Analysis With multiple divisions, each of our associated Early Head Start groups may be operating on their own with regards to marketing efforts. The marketing department would like to help in fostering a unified effort, supporting groups who do not have current marketing activities, and supplementing those that do. Market Summary Our first goal is to reach out to the public and current clients in diverse communities and inform them of benefit of Early Head Start and benefits of…

As a former member of the US .Army, downward communication is a lot in the army. Top ranking informs the lower enlisted of its unit about rules, regulations and the mission thru downward communication. There are different examples of this type communication, job instructions, job rationale, feedback and in doctrine. Upward communication is not practiced very much in the army it’s more of downward communication. Upward Communication is the upright communications travels from the bottom to the…

Friedman and Mackey have very interesting views and perception on what are responsibilities of a business. Friedman view is very simple and clear. Friedman believes, “there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud." Mackey’s views are more incline with the trend of modern…

Unit 5: Manager’s Ethics, Management Values & Corporate Culture Ethics on “Even Better Than the Real Thing” case study Ethics and Social Responsibility University of The People For a firm to adopt a certain style of corporate culture, values analysis should be drawn beforehand, as we read in the text book “Distinguishing an organizational culture requires observing a range of values from the way people dress to the degree of cooperation and competition in the workplace.” (Brusseau,…

Feuerstein was crowned a hero for his strong morality stance by society, he was criticized by the business industry. During that period in time corporate social responsibility was rare if not nonexistent; Mr. Feuerstein decision did not think about the company’s net worth but his employees’ economic well-being. Many companies’ primary concerns were profits and what business decision would produce most of it. But…

The documentary "Objectified" focuses on the industrial design of objects; the product design process, the people involved in creating such objects, and users' complex relationship with the manufactured objects. The director, Gary Hustwit, noted that designers usually re-evaluate, re-examine and re-invent manufactured objects each day. The commentaries by consultants, designers, and other persons involved in the design process reveal that the objects used daily tell a story. Each object speaks…