Posted: April 3rd, 2015

Sustainable management futures

Sustainable management futures

Question and instructions

General instructions must follow:
1.    Structured/organized
2.    Specific/relevant
3.    Diagrams/images relevant to topic.
4.    Research must include academic sources such as academic books published in United Kingdom and Articles and official or reliable web sources of company information.
5.    Citations and list of References.

Total words for this assignment report 3000 words.

Question: Critically evaluate a corporation of your choosing from the perspective(s) of Carroll’s 4 model pyramid corporate social responsibility using only any two contrasting or complementing perspectives from Carroll’s 4 model pyramid CSR. Write a 3,000-word report on your evaluation.

Note: you are advised to choose any successful famous company which is west based (examples: apple, Gmc, Ford or any other company) but it should not be of alcohol, bet or drugs.

How to choose any two perspectives from Carroll’s pyramid of CSR: LET US  YOU SAY FOR THE SAKE OF EXAMPLE THAT YOU AREE LOOKING AT LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OR ECONOMICAL AND PHILANTROPIC RESPONSIBILITIES OR VICE VERSA. JUST MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE ONLY TWO PERSPECTIVES.

……….BELOW ARE THE MAIN INSRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ANSWER THE ASSIGNEMENT…
Structure for the Report

Contents page (not part of the word count)
–    Full list of sections within the report with page numbers

Introduction – 600 words (10%)
–    The aims or purpose of your report
–    An overview of your chosen corporation or organisation – depending on which perspectives you intend to use, it could be useful to identify key individuals and groups (stakeholders) involved in the case.
–    A paragraph to outline what is to follow in your assignment.

Theoretical perspectives and Analysis– 1800 words (60%)
What is important here is that you give equal attention to both of the perspectives that you use. One way of doing this is to ensure that you give each analysis the same amount of words.

You could organise your analyses into two sub-sections with headings, one for each analysis. Each sub-section may include further sub-sections.

For each analysis:
–    Clearly explain the two theoretical perspectives that you intend to apply, why it is relevant for your aim/purpose, and any weaknesses.
–    Explain the issue(s) you are going to address and identify the material you are going to analyse (STATE THE KINDS OF  INFORMATION YOU ARE GOING TO ANALYSE – IS IT THE COMPANY REPORT? OR MEDIA COVERAGE? OR COMPANY WEBSITE? OR COMBINED).
–    Systematically apply the approach and explain / display your findings (APPLY CARROLL’S ANY TWO CONCEPT TO THE COMPANY MATERIAL YOU DECIDED TO USE AND EVALUATE).

Discussion and Conclusions – 600 words (20%)

–    How the findings from your two approaches / perspectives either contradict and/or complement each other (COMPARE AND/OR CONTRAST THE FINDINGS FROM YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE CORPORATION’S LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OR ECONOMICAL AND PHILANTROPIC RESPONSIBILITIES OR VICE VERSA).
–    How your two analyses relate to the aims and purpose of your report i.e. to what extent have you addressed these?
–    What conclusions or recommendations have you reached?
Presentation and References – no word allocation (10%)
a)    This is the list of sources (including web sources) referred to directly in your report.
b)    Use the Harvard referencing system.

Appendices – no word allocation
This is where you can include relevant information about the company that you refer to in the main body of your report. N.B. Only include material that is relevant. Material in the appendices is not included in the word count.