Can CSR make a significant contribution to addressing the global business community?
Address your answer by focusing on two (2) of the following five (5) CSR aspects: climate change, human rights, fast-food, social welfare, and energy- and waste-reduction.
Structure of your essay:
Guidance: As well as an introduction, the main body (you need to include answers to the following sub-questions in the main body of your essay), and finalise the document with the conclusion, followed by the reference list.
Note: Refer to CSR/stakeholder concepts and theories, to answer all questions, and provide examples of CSR (e.g. of company, sector, CSR initiatives.
Define your terms: What is CSR? what is the relationship between CSR and the global business community? explain each one of the two aspects you selected and their relationship with CSR. Give examples.
Explain why each one of the selected aspects are a global business community challenge and in general to the global community (negative and positive impacts if any)? Give examples.
How can CSR (which you have already defined in section 1) help address negative impacts generated by the two aspects you selected? Give examples.
What are the limitations of CSR approaches to the two aspects you selected? Give examples.
Can CSR make a significant contribution to addressing the two aspects you selected? If so, how? If not, why not? In doing this you will benefit from explaining what you mean by ‘significant contribution’.
