Research problem
Although individual writers differ on specific points, there is wide agreement around the central features of what is most commonly called the doctrine of corporate social responsibility. This doctrine, as the word corporate suggests, was developed particularly with big businesses in mind. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) may be thought of as a form of control of businesses, an alternative to the control by markets or government. According to the CSR doctrine, corporations are social institutions, creatures of society that in effect have been chartered by society to perform certain purposes. These corporations must adopt policies and actions that are in conformity to the norms and goals of society. If not, the society that granted the charter can revoke it. In this view, businesses have a moral obligation to use their resources for the common good as well as obligations to particular groups such as stockholders, consumers, employees and creditors (Bomann-Larsen & Wiggen 2004). To behave in a socially responsible way, firms’ decision-making processes must reflect broad societal concerns. For example, corporations need to analyze the social consequences of their decisions before they make them. Economic events and phenomena will inevitably always be in the foreground of the environment for business decision-makers in the short-term, recent years have seen a re-focusing of their priorities on longer-term social developments. The growth in plans for and programs of CSR appears to provide evidence of this. There has been furious debate over the social responsibility question in business for at least a century (Tomer 1999). The proposed research wants to analyze the benefits and disadvantages of corporate social responsibility to private companies.
Importance of the research
The proposed research will help in understanding the importance of corporate social responsibility to private firms. The proposed research will help in identifying the positive things with corporate social responsibility and the problems with the use of corporate social responsibility.
Literature Review
Attempts are being made to overcome the chasm between business ethics through the establishment of new overlapping groups, through joint sessions at various organizational meetings, through special conferences, all concerned with environmental issues both from managerial and ethical perspectives. A stronger bridge needs to be formed to allow dialogue between these fields to begin at a deeper, theoretical level. The field of environmental ethics by and large rests on theories and conceptual foundations quite different from those of business ethics. This separation poses numerous practical and pedagogical problems for the field of business ethics, and as the concern for the natural environment gains in importance. As in all moral decision making, the more deeply one is attuned to their multiple interrelations the more a potential exists for the ordering and reorganizing capabilities of creative intelligence to offer hypotheses which are viable for enriching human existence (Solomon1999). One classic way in which organizations have fulfilled their responsibility to communicate ethical standards or expectations is through the use of codes of ethics, or codes of conduct. Codes of ethics are a phenomenon of the past two decades, and most of the major corporations have them today. The articulation and communication of ethical expectations through written codes and standards is a must in the institutionalization of ethics process. Codes of ethics should not be confused with statements of values. Indeed, in some organizations the two may be the same, or at least overlap. However, they fill different roles. Rather than stating broad values held by the organization, written codes of ethics should be a series of clear, specific, positive, and direct statements from the top leadership of the organization and should be well circulated throughout the organization (Sims 2003).
Methodology
Sample collection
To determine the number of respondents that will be asked to participate and give information regarding the study convenience sampling will be used. Convenience sampling means to collect or interview individuals who actually experience the phenomenon. Convenience sampling will focus on individuals that experienced diabetes mellitus or has someone in the family that experienced such disease.
Methodology/Data Collection
Surveys will the primary method of data collection. Internet surveys would be used. Internet surveys have been both hyped for their capabilities and criticized for the security issues it brings. Internet surveys require less finances since there would be no printing of paper and there would be no need to travel just to gather data. Internet surveys would also require less time for the researchers and the respondents.
Data Analysis
In analyzing the collected data, the paper will be divided into the demographic profiles of the respondents and the ideas of respondents. The data that will be acquired will be put into graphs and tables.
References
Bomann-Larsen, L & Wiggen, O (eds.) 2004, Responsibility in
world business: Managing harmful side-effects of corporate
activity, United Nations University Press, Tokyo.
Sims, RR 2003, Ethics and corporate social responsibility: Why
giants fall, Praeger, Westport, CT
Solomon, RC 1999, A better way to think about business: How
personal integrity leads to corporate success, Oxford University
Press, New York.
Tomer, JF 1999, The human firm: A socio-economic analysis of its
behavior and potential in a new economic age, Routledge, London.
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