Social Responsibility in Corporations


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
An organization's ethical responsibilities don't end at the door of the factory or office building. Companies are citizens of the communities where they do business. Every organization bears social obligations to the community that provides the environment for the organization's existence and growth. This course explores an organization's ethical responsibilities outside its own walls. The course provides ethical decision makers with a framework for balancing the organization's priorities with the priorities of the constituencies in the outside world.

Target Audience
All employees with ethical decision-making responsibility

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Social Responsibility in Corporations

  • identify benefits of a company fulfilling its ethical responsibilities to direct stakeholders.
  • determine whether a company meets its economic responsibilities to stakeholders in a given scenario.
  • match corporate economic responsibilities with examples.
  • determine whether a company meets ethical responsibilities to customers in a given scenario.
  • match ethical responsibilities to customers with examples.
  • apply criteria for ethical privacy policies in a given scenario.
  • match criteria for ethical privacy policies to examples.
  • identify benefits of establishing good corporate citizenship.
  • match categories of indirect stakeholders to examples.
  • recommend the most appropriate strategy for making a decision that benefits indirect stakeholders in a given scenario.
  • match strategies for making decisions that benefit indirect stakeholders with examples.
  • recommend the most appropriate strategy to internalize environmental costs in a given scenario.
  • match strategies for internalizing environmental costs with examples.
  • Course Number:
    pd_02_a04_bs_enus