Corporate Social Responsibility: Contextual, Theoretical, Pragmatic

This report provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It begins by introducing the concept and its significance in modern business practices, emphasizing the role of business reporting. The report delves into the background of CSR, explaining how organizations are increasingly implementing CSR policies to align with stakeholder expectations and enhance their reputation. It then presents a detailed analysis using contextual, theoretical, and pragmatic reasoning. Contextual reasoning highlights how CSR benefits organizations by improving investor relations, employee morale, and customer attraction. Theoretical reasoning explores stakeholder perceptions of CSR and its impact on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Finally, pragmatic reasoning examines the practical requirements and implementation of CSR within an organization. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of CSR in today's business environment.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Background of Corporate Social Responsibility....................................................................3
Contextual reasoning: How Corporate Social Responsibility helps an organization?...........5
Theoretical reasoning: The perception on the Corporate Social Responsibility?..................7
Pragmatic reasoning: Is Corporate Social Responsibility required in an organization?........8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
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Introduction
The dominance of business reporting has made it evident that the business
processes and every performance within the organization is build up on the reporting and
documenting systems developed for the organization for future references. This is the
motive that the concept of the Corporate Social Responsibility is set up for the dominance
found due to business reporting. The organizations are found to be implementing the
policies within the business in support of the dominance of business reporting in the latest
times (Khan, 2016). The business organizations are found to be implementing the policy
for Corporate Social Responsibility grounded on the views that the people might find
contradicting based on the agreement that people might find in establishing the perception
of social responsibility. The requirements of the organization and the resources of the
organization is also something that provides the organization with the ability to adapt to
the Corporate Social Responsibilities that the organization is willing to take up. The
report below would thus be developed to follow through the notion of Corporate Social
Responsibility and the reasons that makes the Corporate Social Responsibility be an
essential part of every organization (Jamali & Karam, 2018). The report would also
establish the basic ideas behind every organization taking up the utility of the Corporate
Social Responsibility and why organizations are becoming keener to implement the same
within the organization policy and systems. These ideas would again be justifying with
the utilization of the contextual reasoning, the theoretical reasoning and the pragmatic
reasoning.

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Background of Corporate Social Responsibility
Various authors have described the concept behind the Corporate Social
Responsibility as the best ways by which the relationship between the organization and its
services to the individual customers and the other citizens as well. This is because every
organization is destined to be serving their customers as their primary services, however,
the organizations do not only have their responsibilities for the customer to serve only
(Kang, Germann & Grewal, 2016). This is also the responsibility of the organizations to
be available as much as possible to their responsibilities to the other factors that might be
affected due to the services they provide to the customers as well. This is another reason
why the organizations must have a very good idea about the steps that they follow while
they have been transferring their activities to the end product to the provided to the
customers.
For example, there might be and organization that has the purpose of providing
security solutions to the customers in the cyber world. The primary purpose of the
organization is to be providing services to the organization with the help of the tracking
their internet activities to find out if there have been any incidences where the presence of
a malicious hacker can be found (Hopkins, 2016). For this reason, they have to gather the
intricate customer data about the internet activity that every individual customer goes
through. However, this is the exact way by which the company should understand their
Corporate Social Responsibility in not trying to sabotage the information that they have
gathered about their customers but at the same time trying to make sure that these
confidential data is stored in a better way so that they could not be breached to harm the
customers and the society in a larger aspect (Chernev & Blair, 2015).

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This is just another example why organizations should maintain their Corporate
Social Responsibility to comprehend their activities within the organization following the
effective ways by which the operations within the organization is followed so that it
cannot harm their customers but at the same time it would help in adding value to the
society as a whole. This is not necessarily an issue that needs to be solved within the
organization with the end product they serve the customers or the ways by which ethical
and moral values are considered while providing services to the customers (Petrenko et
al., 2016). Corporate Social Responsibility is another way concerning the stakeholders
and the business itself to see how any extra activities as developed in the business policy
adds value to the organization all together. The Corporate Social Responsibility is such a
complex issue that there is just not the discussion concerned with the exact
implementation of the dimensions of perception of the people but at the same time there
have been many problems regarding the area of ethical considerations as well (Grayson &
Hodges, 2017). There has always been a discussion where people have been found to be
adding up to the corporate regulation of the organization to be developed into the
dispersions of behavioural aspects of the employees and the organization as a whole.
Therefore, the next sections of the discussions would be dedicated to the discussion of the
entire issue, represented through the contextual reasoning that would elaborate on why
the Corporate Social Responsibility is required within the association, the theoretical
reasoning of the perception on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Pragmatic
reasoning behind the requirement of CSR in an organization (Frynas & Yamahaki, 2016).

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Contextual reasoning: How Corporate Social Responsibility helps an organization?
It has already been evaluated that the Corporate Social Responsibility is the topic
of discussion in this particular paper and this is the same reason that this part of the report
is based on the contextual reasoning behind the Corporate Social Responsibility and the
ways by which these would be helping an organization. The contextual reasoning behind
any subject is dependent on the understanding of the entire topic of the discussion in the
most specific way possible (Crane, Matten & Spence, 2019). This would further be
elaborated in the establishment of the understanding on the entire topic to find out why
and on what grounds can the topic of discussion be considered to be one of the most
plausible or effective decision to be taken or effective idea behind the overall system. The
primary reason the contextual reasoning is thus focused on the Corporate Social
Responsibility and its feasibility to be serving to the organization for their benefits
(Harjoto, Laksmana & Lee, 2015). The reasoning will also have a justification on why
organizations must apply policies to enable a Corporate Social Responsibility within the
operations of the business.
In this context, it can be said that mostly organizations are found to be hearing
about the background behind the Corporate Social Responsibility and there are still many
ways by which organizations do not understand the exact way to apply the Corporate
Social Responsibility within the organization as it is difficult to understand the exact
utility of the same (McWilliams, 2015). They even do not understand how communities
and individual people are benefitted along with the organization with the employment of
the CSR policies.

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It has been identified that when the organization finds it beneficial to utilize its
resources for fulfilling the Corporate Social Responsibility of the association, the
investors of the organization understand the fact that the organization is looking about the
overall health and the company’s financial performance as well (Wang, Dou & Jia, 2016).
It is mostly found to be the case of the organizations where the Corporate Social
Responsibility is only thought about to be implemented utilizing the resources of the
organization and this is another reason that it can be estimated that the regular annual
finances of the organization have been done in the best way possible.
Corporate Social Responsibility has also been found to adding value to the overall
organization as a whole. The only way that it can be implemented within the business is
the way by which the organization can handle the ROI or the Return on Investments.
Corporate Social Responsibility helps any particular organization to gain their overall
value if the business also starts investing for good causes other than what the business
provides the customers with (Crowther & Seifi, 2018). It will add to the establishment of
the point of view of the organization to the existing customers and also to the potential
customers. The organization that invests its resources in Corporate Social Responsibility
is already differentiated by the customers while attracting them. This is the way by which
the morale of the staff becomes enhanced as well. While volunteering for the Corporate
Social Responsibility that the company has estimated to serve, their help is essentially
required and they can be provided with the additional advantage of using their creativity
while serving the responsibilities as well. This provides them with a better perception of
utilizing the same kind of creativity and innovation in their responsibility of the
operations in the organization as well (Flammer, 2015). In the same way, the increased
ROI is another way by which the morale of the employees can be seen to be increasing.

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The Corporate Social Responsibility can thus be invested into social causes,
community causes and can even be focused on the causes like helping an individual with
dire necessity. All these factors have been found to be extremely helping to the boost the
morale of the employees, adding value to the overall organization and at the same time
providing the enhanced reputation of the existing customers with their retention and the
attraction of the potential customers.
Theoretical reasoning: The perception on the Corporate Social Responsibility?
In this particular section, the theoretical reasoning behind the Corporate Social
Responsibility needs to be established to understand in what way are the Corporate Social
Responsibility policies perceived by the entire company and all the stakeholders involved
within the organization. This can be elaborated with the help of the investigation of the
Corporate Social Responsibility and its impact into an organization based on their various
perspectives and their commitment to the job satisfactions and the role of an employee in
this Corporate Social Responsibility as expected by the stakeholders of the organizations
(Liang & Renneboog, 2017). There have been various studies conducted over time
according to the researchers based upon the Corporate Social Responsibility and its
impression on the different aspects of an organization and even the attitudes of the
employees.
It has also been found that rather than concentrating on the overall consequence of
the Corporate Social Responsibility in the organization, many researches are also based
on the effect of the CSR on the financial impact of the association, which is the returns on
the investments. The researches also find out that there are several possible aspects where
the legal and ethical practises within the organization, both internal and external,

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influence the organizational commitment over the Corporate Social Responsibilities
(Schrempf-Stirling, Palazzo & Phillips, 2016). All these factors mentioned above for the
organization and their individual effect on the employees are dependent on the fact of job
satisfaction of the employees within the organization and their perception of the
Corporate Social Responsibilities. An employee expects a lot from their employer
organization and vice versa. There are also various factors that the people or the
employees within the organization and their perceptions on the Corporate Social
Responsibilities depend upon the provision in the organization in adding values to the
society (Unit, 2015). This is the same reason why the employees and their cynicism can
affect the overall policy developed by the organization to serve for the Corporate Social
Responsibility. The relationship of the organizational leaders and the perception of the
employees are also dependent for the Corporate Social Responsibility and their
establishment in the company through the development of policies. Again, the
measurement of the Corporate Social Responsibility and the perceptions of viewing them
have been differentiated on the basis of the distinctive functions of the Corporate Social
Responsibility. These factors are dependent on the factors like economic factors, legal
factors, ethical factors and discretionary factors.
Pragmatic reasoning: Is Corporate Social Responsibility required in an
organization?
Pragmatic reasoning on the other hand, in this section, would be based upon the
factors on which the intended meaning of the provided topic is found and it is suggested
that this is amounted for processing the appropriate contexts for the interpretation of the
entire given topic, which in this case is the Corporate Social Responsibility of the

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organization. It needs to be understood that Corporate Social Responsibility is only
attainable when an organization starts to invest in the ethical, sustainable and legal way of
processing the dealings (Saeidi et al., 2015). The social and environmental impact of the
same is found to be extremely impactful when an organization starts to invest their
resources in the Corporate Social Responsibility considering the Human Rights,
communities, environment and societal concepts.
It is important for every organization that it starts to behave in the exact
appropriate way that might help the organization in bringing up the demonstration of the
social responsibilities that it does to add value to the society (Yakovleva, 2017). It is
however, not at all a legal requirement and mandatory for every organization in the
legislative ways, but at the same time, it is another addition to the organizational policies
that would be considered as a good practise for adding to the solution behind the social
and environmental issues.
It is essential for an organization to take up the Corporate Social Responsibility
and present to the customers about the most active involvement of the company in
serving to the Corporate Social Responsibilities. Corporate Social Responsibility
demonstrates to any individual about the interest of the business in handling the solution
to the wider social issues, than only adding to the operational factors to impact the profit
margins for the organization (Wang et al., 2016). Therefore, this operates the good
business sense to operate through the sustainability. This enables the organization in
establishing a well improved public image, increases the awareness of the customers
regarding the organization and the recognition of the organization.

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Conclusion
Therefore, in conclusion, it can be said that the Corporate Social Responsibility
has been one of the most impactful factors by which it is established to be adopted by
organizations. This is why the report above has been delivering the various methods by
which the reasoning of implementing Corporate Social Responsibility is useful in the
organization according to the contextual, theoretical and pragmatic reasoning of the
organization. It can be easily understood how the Corporate Social Responsibility is
essential for every organization and how it can essentially add value to every organization
if they are included in the business processes. This is why the above report has been
described to be implementing the Corporate Social Responsibility in the organizations
and how the entire business process including the people within the organization has been
benefitted by it. The above report also describes the various reasons by which the
employees in the organization can be morally boosted by the implementation that is led
by the company taking initiative for completing not just their requirements for the
company but also adding value to their social responsibility. Having invested into the
social causes, there have been various resources utilized for the purpose, which is why, it
is required that the organization that is investing into the Social Responsibilities take up
the return on the investments only because it is enhanced due to the better business
prospects. Therefore, the above report also enables the idea that business organizations
need to make sure that their ROI is more than what they have estimated to be and only
then it is possible that the organization can look forward to investing their available
resources into the CSR activities. Therefore, the entire report suggests that it is beneficial
for an organization to invest into CSR activities from different business aspects but at the
same time it is only permitted by extensive ROI.

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