An Examination of Corporate Social Responsibility at Boral Limited

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Boral Ltd. It begins with an introduction to CSR, emphasizing its importance and growing popularity worldwide, particularly in Australia. The report then analyzes the effectiveness of Boral Ltd's CSR policies, highlighting the benefits of internal and external activities, such as improved research and development and enhanced stakeholder relations. The analysis further delves into the advantages of CSR for Boral Ltd, including increased employee loyalty, enhanced goodwill, environmental consciousness, social concerns, engagement with the local community, and long-term financial benefits. The report concludes by acknowledging that while Boral Ltd has integrated CSR at a fundamental level, there is still room for improvement in embracing its full scope. It stresses the increasing significance of CSR as an integrated part of the global business platform, referencing several academic sources to support the arguments made.

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Executive summary
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is now the area of discussion worldwide especially in
Australia. CSR requires considering of all the stakeholders, social and environmental factors. In
this topic an overview of CSR of Boral limited and its various details are given. Then it includes
both internal and external affairs of CSR policy. Further its benefit to the company and to the
society as well.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Effectiveness....................................................................................................................................2
Benefits............................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
Reference list...................................................................................................................................5

3Corporate Social Responsibility of Boral Ltd
Introduction
CSR also known as corporate social responsibility is a concept where companies take
initiative in social and environmental programs and practices in their entity operation along with
all the stakeholders. CSR helps the business to increase long term profit by making them more
efficient and high goodwill. CSR has now grown popularity in worldwide by increasing interest
from both internal and external corporate sector. Boral limited has faced external pressure from
non-governmental organization to provide accountability and transparency especially in the area
of environmental factors and human rights. Government also supports the changes to develop
consumer’s interest in CSR (Marquis and Qian, 2013).
Effectiveness
In Australia this practice is well recognized in the business community. It aims to create a
positive effect and achieve positive results on the society while maximizing the value of the
business. They are engaged in CSR for many reasons that help them to operate now and in future
by acknowledging the area of harm, risk and opportunities that may affect them. Effective
management in both internal and external activities helps the company to get benefit through
improved research and development, employee development, relation with government, and risk
management. The key success factor of Boral limited CSR policy is that they have a proper
internal system which create and apply CSR policies and procedure effectively (Crane, Matten,
and Spence, 2019). Its proper implementation can bring many competitive advantages such as
increased sales percentage, profit percentage, saving of operational cost, increase brand image
and goodwill, consumer’s loyalty and better decision makings.

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Benefits
Boral limited a brick and mortar business gets some advantage from the implementation of
CSR which includes:
 Increase employee loyalty – Employees are part of corporate social responsibility. By
providing better and encouraging jobs opportunities which increase employee’s loyalty
and productivity (Grayson and Hodges, 2017).
 Increase goodwill – A good CSR helps to get publicity and give a business a proof of
their conduct.
 Environmental consciousness – CSR includes environmental programs like reducing
wastes, recycling and other best activities to protect the environment. Using renewal
energies and other products to support environmental green movement boost the business
(Tai and Chuang, 2014).
 Social concern – Doing something for human cause like fight for poverty, help victims of
HIV, earthquake, flood, and hurricane shows concern of a business toward consumers
creates modern interconnected world.
 Local community – Involving in local projects through donation, providing employees or
through advertising and promotion shows CSR in the locality.
 Long term financial benefit – CSR helps a company to get easily access of finance, attract
positive media action and also helps to develop new products or services (Cheng,
Ioannou, and Serafeim 2014).

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Conclusion
At present Boral limited incorporated the CSR program at a fundamental level however
still they have doubt of whether they can embrace the broad and multifunction of CSR. There are
few companies using CSR to increase goodwill and plan different product marketing ways
whereas many companies uses old financial and high authority model as the source of their
planning (Khan, Muttakin and Siddiqui, 2013). There is no such rule and regulation which
governs the CSR. The more the entities will understand the growing reputation and values the
more opportunities are obtained which will connect them with the world. CSR is now become a
very much integrated part of the global business platform (Tai and Chuang, 2014).

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