Developing skills for business leadership

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Table of Contents
1.0. Introduction.......................................................................................................... 2
1.1. Aims &Structure................................................................................................. 2
2.0. Industry sector and Importance.................................................................................. 2
3.0. Background of Company.......................................................................................... 2
4.0. Countries, Culture and Size....................................................................................... 3
5.0. Definition of CSR................................................................................................... 3
6.0. Issues of CSR........................................................................................................ 4
7.0. Role of CSR in Mark & Spencer................................................................................. 4
8.0. Stakeholder Diagram............................................................................................... 5
9.0. Barriers Analysis.................................................................................................... 5
10.0. Campaign of Changing minds and Heart....................................................................6
10.1. Objective....................................................................................................... 7
11.0. Gantt chart........................................................................................................ 8
12.0. Budget............................................................................................................. 9
13.0. Strengths and Weakness...................................................................................... 10
14.0. Conclusion and Recommendation..........................................................................11
15.0. References....................................................................................................... 12

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1.0. Introduction
In the contemporary world there are various debates had been made on the topic of
Corporate Social Responsibility. There are various pros and cons argument has been
arrived while practicing CSR in the business. The companies used to exploit market
for the extensive term achievement by the policies as well as practices as they are
functioning and ignoring the Corporate Social Responsibility (Marano and Kostova,
2016). Various CSR policies had been adopted by Marks & Spencer in their
corporate to strive in the marketplace. Still there are various defies that the
company are facing (Lueg, Lueg, Andersen and Dancianu, 2016). In this report it will
be discussed about the CSR of Mark and Spencer.
1.1. Aims &Structure
 A critical review of Marks and Spencer adopted CSR policies whch has been performed
 It will be evaluated the effectiveness of the Marks and Spencer Corporate Social
Responsibility.
 Campaign had been prepared for the company in accordance with the requirement of the
Company CSR
 The recommendations will be made to Marks and Spencer for the performance of the
programs of CSR.
2.0. Industry sector and Importance
Food and clothing business has been chosen because there is an excessive capacity to expansion
of the business. The company main focus is not only the retailers but it gives emphasis on all
level of supply chain. The CSR activities of the company is different in different countries due to
in every country there is a different way to manage and operate. Every Country has different
laws and difference of working condition and in accordance to that company has to carry out
their operations (Pantano, Priporas, Sorace and Iazzolino, 2017). The government, lobby and
media play a vital role in enforcing the policies that is required to meet in the established society.
3.0. Background of Company
In UK the Mark and Spencer is among the foremost sort and it is very conjoint and famous
among the people. The company is the largest retail industry and there main source of income is

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from upper class and middle class individuals. The company has 900 stores out of which 600
stores are positioned in the local marketplace of United Kingdom as well as the company in the
global market ranked 43rd largest retailer. Marks and Spencer has been focussed to bring
awareness in CSR activities (Fisher, 2016). The company commercial notion is doing the correct
thing and therefore the corporation has also made major improvements in their prices, standards
and values of their product. However the main focus is of the company that how the consumer
can be enhanced and so that turnover.
4.0. Countries, Culture and Size
The population of United Kingdom is 65.7 billion and it has been counted among the developed
countries of the World. UK has a huge market for companies for the expansion of their business.
The culture of UK is very stretchy as the business environment is very much in control and it
will uphold dignity as well as evade informality in the outfit and conversion. The UK individuals
are said to be decent representatives because they are good listeners as well as tolerant. The UK
people often believed in legal document rather than performing anything based on inter personal
relationship and therefore nonverbal behaviour is often ignored by the people of UK (Cowling
and Lee, 2017). The people of UK are individualistic. The World of people of US are depends on
rational cognitive they do not believe on neutral as well as they are both straight and informal
India is considered as one of the fastest growing market in the global market. The country has
been widespread and it is blowout in the 3.287 million km area and the populace of the country
is also approximately 133 billion. The country India is the philosophy of power distance,
uncertain evasion, communism, lasting alignment indulgence and masculinity. The Subservient
is not considered taking any inventiveness towards the improvement of the business and they
endure hushed till it has been questioned by the manager to state. The culture is inflexible and
the regulator is with the difficult expert only. The Indian individuals are communalist and work
on their instinct relatively than on the details and it been further formal and indirect (Negi and
Dangwal, 2016).