Sustainable Enterprise and Social Responsibility: A Critical Analysis of Siemens

Sustainable Enterprise and social responsibility

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Sustainability is concerned with the preservation of resources for use by the future
generations while corporate social responsibility is associated with performing welfare
activities for the society by the organizations so as to achieve sustainable development.
The organization Siemens works for achieving sustainability and conducts a number of
CSR activities which are being critically analyzed. The critical analysis has resulted in
some recommendations for the organization that can be implemented for further
enhancement of the sustainable development and improvement in the CSR activities. It
is concluded that CSR activities and accomplishment of sustainability is important for
the organizations to successfully sustain in the business environment.
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Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY................................................................................................. 1
INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................2
LITERATURE REVIEW....................................................................................................3
CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND CASE STUDY......................................................................8
RECOMMENDATION.................................................................................................... 12
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................... 13
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
The implementation of corporate social responsibility and sustainability is important for
the organizations as well as for the development of the society. The notion in broader
terms can be described as planning for the welfare of the society through charitable
methods and the methods that concern with the implementation of the environmentally
friendly policies at the workplace. The assignment has taken into consideration the
organization, a German conglomerate company, Siemens for highlighting the concept of
sustainability and corporate social responsibility and the principles associated with it.
The concepts will be individually explained followed by relating the concepts
implemented in Siemens. The literature review will be done for explaining the following
concepts followed by a critical analysis of the sustainability and corporate social
responsibility in Siemens. The recommendations will be drawn for the critical analysis
conducted followed by the conclusions.
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