... dimension of corporate social responsibility deals with motivation for socially responsible activities, mainly economic, legal, discretional and ethical activities. The second dimension deals with societies concerns, like environmental and product safety issues. The third and final dimension has to do with the range of the different levels of response, going from doing nothing, to going above ... in the S & P 500 Index. (BSR) "Companies with a public commitment to ethics perform better on three out of four financial measures that those without. These companies also have eighteen percen...

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... stakeholder theory can be seen as the 'right' thing to do. My company will only operate according to the stakeholder theory. As a manager at Pfizer, I have to develop certain ethics. I will adopt a bureaucratic ethic to guide my work style. The 'bureaucratic' ethic is a moral code that guides managers through all the dilemmas and changes that confront them in their ... written ethical guidelines in the form of a code of conduct in which all employees have to follow while they work at the company. People will be taught through special "ethics programs" and in service seminars t...

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... fraud; such as Enron and Worldcom. (In fact, it was recently reported that a U.S. Senator had used one of these names as a verb; i.e.; to "enron" shareholders.) Corporate ethics and the role of business in society is under public scrutiny perhaps more than ever before in modern history, particularly in the USA. Currently there are three predominate views on ... would be considered to be an unethical interference in the economy. Many agencies would simply disappear, including those involved in regulating education, unemployment compensation, social security, health care, environmental impa...

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... 36) The economic and legal types of responsibility are required of businesses by society. These areas include being profitable while obeying all laws and regulations including environmental and consumer laws. (Carroll p.39) These areas of responsibility are the minimum requirements for firms that assume responsibility. The ethical area is expected of ... how costly it was, but soon the companies" actions received worldwide praise and recognition and would be rated number one in 1987 on community and environmental responsibility. (Kaplan 1998) This was by no means the first example of CSR...

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