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MGT723 Research Project: Assignment

   

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MGT723 Research Project Assessment Task 1: Research ProposalStudent Name: XXXYour assigned research topic*: XXXDraft Research Question: XXXTitle: XXXSubmission Date: XXXAcknowledgement:I certify that I have carefully reviewed the university’s academic misconduct policy. I understand thatthe source of ideas must be referenced and that quotation marks and a reference are required whendirectly quoting anyone else’s words.

Literature Review – SummaryCorporate social responsibility departments are responsible for ensuring that all projects are successful and adhere to the laid out ethics.Research questionIs the Corporate Social Responsibility department failing to do their job in ensuring organizations follow ethics and are socially responsible?A lot of industry leaders in various types of businesses are experiencing massive losses which in turn lead to their downfalls (Sims, 2003) because the people who are entrusted to grow the businesses often lack ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Decisions made by any management of an organization should be evaluated to determine the impact they have on the society in which they operate in, the environment and the prosperity of the business itself (Besser, 2002). A good look at lack of ethics and corporate social responsibility is the case of Volkswagen where the company designed an engine aimed at breaking the set out control levels of emissions (Dans, 2015). The company designed an engine ignoring the regulations so that they could gain an advantage over their competitors with the aim of becoming industry leaders. With the current advancement in technology most organizations are able to keep records of everything happening in production so Volkswagen knew what was going on from the start. This cannot be considered to be a decision made and implemented at the engineering department only but a sequence of decisions with all the departments involved including the Corporate Social Responsibility department. With this move, the organization intended to make massive profits without considering the effects the emission levels of their engines would have on the environment.It is the responsibility of every company to self-regulate in order to ensure their operations or products do not have negative effects short term or long term on either the society or the environment. But most CSR departments are failing at their jobs because of fear of going out of business in case audits that would expose the company are done. Thus more organizations are finding themselves breaking a lot of regulations that ensure their products are environmentally friendly and the employees are working in good working conditions in order to increase their profits (Cowen, Ferreri & Parker, 1987). The main reasons the CSR departments are failing could be; the people in the CSR departments are not truthful in their jobs and that’s why you find in many cases organizations giving false reports for example in the case of Volkswagen where the company introduced a software to alter the results of emission tests on their engines. If the CSR department was truthful from the start, these engines could have reached the market in the first place. Another reason the CSR departments are failing is lack of communication among the various departments (Roberts, 1992) existing in an organization. This is because most organizations are operating in distinct divisions thus is making it hard for the CSR department. Consumers of the products produced by this organizations are also to blame in a way. Ensuring safety and social responsibility costs money to the organization and the cost is reflected in the products. In most cases, consumers do not want to pay more for this products thus the organizations are able to ignore regulations because the consumers are not willing to pay more.2 | P a g e

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