Leadership and Governance Case Study 2022

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Leadership and Governance
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Question 1..................................................................................................................................2
Question 2..................................................................................................................................3
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Question 1
Based on the analysis of the case study named Exxon Mobil- stewardship,
leadership, corporate social responsibility, it can tend to suggest that the concerned company
called Exxon Mobil should not focus on establishing and developing more of the oil as well
as gas reserves (Tricker, 2015). This is because some of the connected shareholders of the
company disagreed to the same, and the reason for their argument was investigated to be a
valid one. Concerning to this, the primary reason to stop the Exxon Company from expanding
into more of the oil and gas reserves as per the viewpoint of the shareholders and the research
study of the report, is recognised to be the threaten the oil and gas energy sources is causing
to the global environment (Sovacool & Dworkin, 2015). The shareholders were also recorded
to argue that this drastic effect that is caused to the environment will also affect the financial
health of the company in the long run. As opined by Rauter, Jonker and Baumgartner, (2017),
if any productive business organisation is not able to fulfil its responsibility that the same is
liable towards the sustainment of the natural environment, the synergy of the company that is
related to the corporate social responsibility is affected. In this connection, the concerned
business organisation under discussion here in the report will also turn ineffective in fulfilling
the responsibility the same as towards the society and the connected stakeholders of the
company. If the stakeholders of the company would have a negative image of the same, they
will not be interested in working efficiently with the company (Epstein, 2018). This, in turn,
will significantly affect the working condition of the company as well as the profit-earnings
ratio of the same. As known that the stakeholders connected to a business entity are the real
boss of the company. Therefore, Exxon Mobil should change their emphasis from producing
more of oil and gas reserves to protecting the environmental factors they are accountable to.