Business Law Question

Choose a company and write about its strategic corporate social responsibility.  It must be a company with which you have a personal relationship (e.g. a family member’s company; your favorite coffee shop, your employer).  You must be able to contact a company representative (and name them in your paper with their contact information in a citation) and ask questions to gain information for your paper.

1.  Write about what the company does.  (In other words, do not assume that I am familiar with the company.)

2.  Write about the company’s strategic corporate social responsibility and how it addresses, and balances, the interests of its various stakeholders.

3.  Identify its officer in charge of corporate social responsibility.  If there is no such officer, find out if anyone is designated to address CSR.  You may find that the company has not thought much about CSR, and that’s ok.  Discuss how you explained CSR to that company, and how you can see that they are socially responsible (e.g., they treat their employees really well), even if they didn’t realize it, or, how you wish they were more responsible (e.g., you’ve noticed a lot of food waste at the end of your shift).

4.  Obtain its ethics guidelines or code of conduct and include the first pageas an exhibit to your paper, or if it is available online, include the URL.  If the company does not have one, then address that.  For example, explain that you asked, and that they do not have formal guidelines, but they operate their business based on their grandmother’s motto that you treat everyone as family.

5.  Optional – If there was a crisis (e.g., the company was caught using overseas child labor) that changed the company’s approach to CSR, write about that crisis, and how the approach to CSR changed.

You need to cite your company contact and the code of conduct.  If you research the company online, include citations for those sources.  However, keep in mind that this should not be a report of what you have read about the company.  This should be about your experience with the company so that you can discuss your point of view as a stakeholder.