08 Aug Describe a corporate social responsibility program
1. Do an Internet search on “corporate social responsibility programs.” Here are some sources to get started. You are not restricted to these sources:
- 100 Best Corporate Citizens (Links to an external site.)
- CRO’s Top 100 Corporate Citizens 2018 (Links to an external site.)
- As You Sow: Corporate Social Responsibility (Links to an external site.)
- Starbucks: Corporate Social Responsibility (Links to an external site.)
- The Coca-Cola Company: Protecting the Environment (Links to an external site.)
- Merck: Corporate Responsibility (Links to an external site.)
More ways to find sources have been listed below:
Mergent Online: Links to an external site.Mergent Online delivers a comprehensive suite of financial and company information, providing access to one of the most complete historical financial databases with just a few mouse clicks.
Factiva: Links to an external site.Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides essential business news and information. Factiva’s unrivaled collection of more than 10,000 authoritative sources includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters and the Associated Press newswires.
Business Source Complete: Links to an external site.Business Source Complete is a comprehensive article database offering access to trade magazines and scholarly journals, including Forbes and Harvard Business Review.
Lexis Nexis: Links to an external site.Lexis Nexis is NOVA’s primary database for legal information. It is widely used in the legal profession for information about cases. While it can be used to find information on US case law, Lexis Nexis also provides access to national and international business newspapers (by searching in the Search the News box) and company information (by searching in the Get Company Info box).
2. Write a 2-3 page paper on one company’s corporate social responsibility program or programs (you can choose which company to write about and you may write on one or more than one program that the company is presently engaging in). Be sure to include the following in your paper :
- Describe a corporate social responsibility program
- What the company thinks they gain by engaging in it?
- How the employees feel about the program?
- Do you think the company should be doing this program at all?
