Preparing for a Professional Career

Preparing for a professional
career

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART A...........................................................................................................................................1
Introduction and Definition of the issue/challenge chosen....................................................1
Codes of conduct that can assist in resolving the issue..........................................................2
Guidance available from the relevant professional bodies.....................................................2
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................3
PART B............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Global business environment consists of many challenges for a business organisation in today's
scenario (Vilanova and Puig, 2016). Present report is based on the different issues faced by a
company at the time of performing different operations and what actions they take in order to
resolve them so that stronger sustainability can be built. Including this, report will also show the
different codes of conduct that may help up a company in removing different barriers faced by
them. Lastly, different guidance that has been given by professional bodies will also so we
included in this report.
PART A
Introduction and Definition of the issue/challenge chosen
Corporate social responsibility can be defined as a type of self-regulation that helps a company
in in contributing to the society's welfare. This type of responsibility come to with number of
goals in relation to philanthropic, charitable, activist and volunteering type of practices. Over the
years, CSR has been a crucial problem for number of business organisation because that has let
them to deal with various issues as well where greenwashing practice is considered to be one of
the challenge that came in front of developing or conducting a CSR activity (Chen and et. al.,
2017). This could be understood with a good example of Marks and Spencer where the company
effectively started asking their customers for bringing back them the close that they do not use so
that they can recycle them. the reason behind this activity was to support the environment
through recycling different clothes and make new ones from them. But, what exactly was
happening behind the back of customers was totally opposite of it, and this CSR act was
conducted to mislead potential customers as Marks and Spencer was already producing high
amount of pollution from its factories (Wybo and Van Wassenhove, 2016)
Over the years, it has been analysed that skyrocketing incidence of greenwashing can have
profound negative effects on consumer and investor confidence in environmentally friendly
firms and products. Mitigating greenwashing is particularly challenging in a context of limited
and uncertain regulation. At initial level this act that Marks and Spencer has performed help the
company in gaining competitive advantages as their customers started believing that this
company is producing environmental friendly products through considering recycling process.
But later on the whole scenario got changed and company has gone through various problems
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