Enhancing Corporate Social Responsibility: Managerial Strategies L4

This presentation outlines strategies for managers to enhance Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), focusing on addressing a 'poor and conservative working culture' within ASDA. The presentation identifies the problem, its causes such as unappropriated work environment and possible solutions like promoting an innovative and creative workplace culture, adopting modern techniques, implementing employee-oriented policies, and fostering a diverse work culture. It further discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed solution. The presentation concludes that CSR is vital for shaping a company's brand image and suggests that the proposed solution can help ASDA improve its approach to CSR. References to various academic sources are included to support the analysis and recommendations. Desklib provides this and many other assignments for students.

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Session Outline
 Introduction
 Problem
 Causes of this problem
 Possible solution
 Strengths and weaknesses of the problem
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Corporate Social responsibility(CSR) defines
company commitment towards managing
their operations effect in favouring to
environment, social and economic culture.
 CSR generally form a balance between social
and corporate culture that helps the company
in performing their task more significantly
with social concerns.

Problem
 In complying the CSR successfully in business company have to start with its internal working environment.
The workplace plays a major role in company operations. Hence, it is the responsibility of performing company
to create a healthy work culture for employee.
 In ASDA the main issue which is presenting in this presentation is the “poor and conservative working
culture”.
 The mentioned company work culture is outdated and out form which arising the several issue in its operations.
The given firm lacking in developing the healthy and diversify work culture.
 Since, employee is the main key for company therefore it is the responsibility of given firm mangers to form a
ambient work environment for their employees (Burchell, 2020).

Causes of this problem
 The several causes of poor and conservative
working culture in ASDA that can be analysis in
below given points
 Unappropriated work environment- One of the
main reason for poor work culture in ASDA is due to
tactics and poisonous behaviour of seniors and upper
line Management team towards the bottom line
employee.
 Employee faced several issue and appropriate
comments from their seniors that affected their
mental piece of mind as well as physical health. As
stated in past ASDA employees resigned from the
company due to racial and unethical comment.

Possible solutions
 By reflecting to concerning issue faced by ASDA in respect to pursue its CSR, “Promoting innovative and
creative workplace culture” would be potential solution to this problem.
 Modern techniques- By adopting the modern techniques over old techniques mangers of respective company
can perform their task more effectively and efficiently, it leads to help in generating the positive environment
in workplace.
 Employee oriented policy- The problems of employee exploitations that is shown in the above discussion can
be solved by applying the mentioned policy.
 Diverse work culture- The above policy welcomes the diverse work culture that means better opportunity for
every employee.

Strengths and weakness of the problem
 Potential strength and
weakness for the said
solution i.e., “Promoting
innovative and creative
workplace culture” is
presented below in the table.

Conclusion
 From the analysis of above presentation it can be said that CSR plays a vital role in shaping the brand image of
chosen firm in between the society that succours into enhancing their operations. However, a severe problem
was faced by company mangers in applying the CSR in company functions.
 In instance, a potential solution was provided in above presentation that is “Promoting innovative and creative
workplace culture” That solved the major issue from respective firm operations.
 In last the strength and weakness of above strategy was also discussed that develops the overall scenario of
given solution. This further will help mangers in enhancing firm's productive approach towards the corporate
social responsibility.

References
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