Corporate governance and leadership

Running Head: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP1
ExecutiveSummary
This paper aims to look at the CSR and leadership of the Shell Company and aims to study
the various challenges and controversies faced by the company. The paper studies the Annual
Report of 2016 and 2019 to look at the revenue generation, market structure and stakes held
by the Company. The study, further, concludes on the role played by Shell in the oil and gas
production market reeling under the present day challenges of climate and environment
besides a crucial state of maintaining a sustainable balance (Skjærseth & Skodvin, 2018).

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................3
Corporation................................................................................................................................4
Governance Structure.................................................................................................................4
Various approaches used by Shell in boardroom decision-making:......................................5
Issue............................................................................................................................................6
Legislation and Compliance.......................................................................................................7
Ethical Behavior.........................................................................................................................7
Sustainability..............................................................................................................................8
Leadership and Governance Challenges....................................................................................9
Recommendations......................................................................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP3
Introduction
This paper aims to study the various scandals and charges pressed against Royal
Dutch Shell, popularly known as ‘Shell’. It primarily focuses on the criminal charges pressed
against Shell in Nigeria and Netherlands (The Independent, 2019). Shell has a lot of charges
against corporate abuse, related to transport and environment pollution, which is being
created by it across the world (Epstein, 2018). This is widely responsible for the acceleration
of the changes in climate as well as the complicity, associated with the murder of the activists
who were simply defending their houses that suffered severe damage, caused by the mining
and digging operations of the Company (Corporatewatch.org, 2019).
Literature Review
With each passing year, the charitable and not-for-profit organizations come together
to pitch their projects before the big, corporate houses towards the development of an
environmentally safer, educationally richer and healthier environment that aims to promote
the common good. In this process, thousands of currencies are funded by several corporate
houses in assurance of some benefit in return. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is also
referred to as corporate citizenship, corporate conscience, social performance or sustainable
responsible business refers to a type of autonomous regulation in the corporate paradigm that
is integrated into a business model (Fontaine, 2013). The CSR policies are self-regulating,
mechanisms within the modes of the operations whereby the business organizations not only
monitors but also makes sure active compliance of the same, in the spirit of law, international
norms as well as ethical standards (Fontaine, 2013). The CSRs aim to remain accountable for
the actions of the company besides encouraging a healthy impact using its governance and
activities upon the consumers, business environment and communities, employees,
stakeholders as well as all other members of the listed company. The Royal Dutch Shell