CORPORATE

SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
By:- Rahul Singhal
Meerut Institute of Technology,
Meerut

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 Corporate – means organized business

 Social – meaning every thing dealing with

the people

 Responsibility – means accountability

between the two

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Definition
 “Corporate social responsibility is operating a
business in a manner which meets or excels the
ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations
that the society has from the business”

 “the obligation of businessmen to pursue those

policies, to make those decisions, or to follow those
line of action which are desirable in terms of
objectives and values of society”

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CSR Encompasses
 Social, economic, ethical and moral responsibility of companies
and managers

 Compliance with legal and voluntary requirement for business

and professional practice

 Challenges posed by needs of the economy and socially

disadvantages group

 Management of corporate responsibility activities

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Factors Influencing CSR
 Globalization – coupled with focus on cross – border trade,
multinational enterprises and global supply chains

 Governments and intergovernmental bodies

 Advances in communication technology

 Increasing interest of consumers and investors in supporting

CSR

 Numerous serious and high profile breaches of corporate ethics

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 Increasing awareness of the limits of government
legislative and regulatory initiative

 Business recognizing that adopting an effective

approach to CSR can reduce risk of business
disruption

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 Difference Between Charity and CSR

 CHARITY  CSR

 Means donating money,  It is how company align their

goods, time or effort value to social cause

 For poor and needy cause  It can be people centric or

planet centric
 It is selfless giving toward
any kind of social need  It is not self less act,
company derive long term
benefit from CSR

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Triple Bottom Line Approach to CSR
 Coined in 1997 by John Ellington

 It is based on the thought that business entities have more to do

than make profit for the owner of the capital

 People, Planet and Profit is used to describe the triple bottom

line

 Profit is the bottom line shared by all commerce

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 People Issues
 Health
 Safety
 Diversity
 Ethnicity
 Education and Literacy
 Prevention of Child Labour

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 Planet Issues
 Climate Change
 Energy
 Water
 Chemicals, toxics and heavy metals
 Air pollution
 Waste Management
 Ozone layer depletion
 Ocean and fisheries

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 Need to Apply TBL Concept
 Increased consumer sensitivity to corporate social
behavior
 Increased environmental regulation
 Concerns over global warming
 Awareness about and willingness for respecting
human rights
 Media attention to social issues
 Growing corporate participation in social up liftment

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