Evaluating CSR, Code of Conduct, and Professional Bodies Support

This report provides an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its importance in the modern business environment, particularly focusing on Unilever as a case study. It explores the role of a code of conduct in achieving business goals, emphasizing values such as integrity, respect, and responsibility. The report also discusses the support and guidance available from professional bodies like Social Work England and the UK government in ensuring businesses adhere to ethical standards and CSR principles. Furthermore, it assesses the likely impact of both support systems and codes of conduct on addressing ethical issues and promoting sustainable business practices. The report concludes with a continuous professional development (CPD) plan, outlining strategies for enhancing knowledge and skills related to ethical issues, CSR, and code of conduct, emphasizing the importance of staying informed about market changes and ethical challenges to achieve career success. Desklib provides access to similar reports and solved assignments for students.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
Corporate Social Responsibility.............................................................................................3
Code of conduct......................................................................................................................4
Discuss the support and guidance available from the relevant Professional
Bodies/Organisations..............................................................................................................4
Concludes with an assessment of the likely impact both the support and codes of conduct
could have on the issue...........................................................................................................5
PART B............................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................10
Online...................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The business environment is dynamic and the business organisation that are operating at
global level have to face certain challenges (Ferrell and et.al., 2019). This report is based on
“Corporate Social Responsibility” that is an ethical issue. In the starting of the report the
challenge is being discussed. Afterwards the conduct of conduct that is being undertaken by the
company to resolve the issue is mentioned. There are some professional bodies that assist in
dealing with the issue are also evaluated in this report. Continuous professional development
plan is formulated in the end of this report as it helps to know about the details learned in
module.
MAIN BODY
PART A
Corporate Social Responsibility
It can be defined as a management concept where the business organisations integrate
social and environmental concerns. They assure that they fulfil the requirements of all the
stakeholders. CSR refers to policies and practices that are undertaken by a company to have a
positive influence on the world. It helps them to create good image and that helps them to
achieve the objectives of the company (Sroka and Szántó, 2018). The company must work to
take proper care of environment as they get all the resources from environment. It is the
responsibility of corporates to maintain balance and use the resources in optimum manner.
It is seen that there is direct impact of CSR of the business organisation. Unilever is a
British Multinational organisation that believes that success requires the highest standards of
corporate behaviour towards the societies, employees, and the consumers. They aim to provide
quality goods and services to the customers and to reduce carbon footprints on the environment.
It helps the company to get more loyal customers with positive image in market.
If they will not follow the same the company will not be able to maintain their position in
the market. Taking care of environment is must at the present time because customers are aware
about safety and hygiene. The expenditure of company enhances when they are indulged in CSR.
But CSR helps them to enhance profitability position of the company in long run.

Code of conduct
Code of conduct helps the business organisation to achieve goals and objectives
successfully. They follow the principles of business integrity (Alwagfi, Aljawarneh and Alomari,
2020). They take proper care of their employees and show respect towards them. The values of
Unilever are as follows:
 Integrity
 Respect
 Responsibility
 Pioneering
This makes Unilever strong. The practice engages the employees and retain them in the
organisation. They take wise decisions so that they develop relations with stakeholders. It grows
the sustainability practice of Unilever they are able to deliver the strategy in an effective manner.
There are some standards that are followed by Unilever. They are fully aligned towards values
that help them to operate effectively. The three pillars are as follows:
 Prevention: They seek to follow culture at all the levels.
 Detection: They encourage employees to speak and get involved in decision making.
 Response: They use tools that help them to investigate all the things and continuously
improve.
The code of conduct of conduct provides direction to the organisation that is being followed by
them. The company works go treat all the employees equally so that they feel valuable and
respectable (Unilever Business Integrity, 2021). Along with that, they work on anti-pollution
guidelines that support them to work towards environment and support them. It is necessary to
follow all the code of conduct and achieve success.
Discuss the support and guidance available from the relevant Professional Bodies/Organisations
Professional bodies are the professionals that establish help and guidance in order to
achieve goals and objectives. There are certain challenges that are faced by business
organisations so that they are able to achieve success (Rossi and et.al., 2021). There is need to
know about them and take their assistance so that they are able to achieve success. The
professional bodies that help to overcome the challenges are as follows:
Social Work England: It is one of the body that works to maintain health and safety of
people. There is need to work by protecting the interest of people and to promote the welfare of

people. It was designed in 2017 to establish standards for the people. There is need to follow
corporate social responsibility and protect interest of all the people. They must also assure that
there is no hard caused to the environment.
Government: The government of UK takes care that all the business organisation must
follow corporate social responsibility. It is duty of government to check that they do not harm the
employees that work in the organisation (Yuan and et.al., 2020). Along with that they maintain
quality of products that they serve to the customers. They assure that the company follow all the
standards and perform in effective manner.
Concludes with an assessment of the likely impact both the support and codes of conduct could
have on the issue
There is key role of code of conduct in success of a business organisation. The company
must follow the ethics and values so that they are able to achieve success. The code of conduct
being followed by the business organisation creates effective image of the company and attracts
more customers. These are the standards that assist the companies to deal with the challenges and
to overcome them. The professional bodies are like helping hands that support the businesses so
that they do not make any mistake. They help to provide support to the business and take suitable
actions if they are indulged in wrong activity.
If the business organisation will not follow code of conduct, they have to face challenges
The employees will not work with the company and the same time they will not be able to deal
with the customers in appropriate manner. The legal compliances will not be followed by the
company and they have to face penalty.

PART B
CPD PLAN
What do I want to
learn?
What will I do to
achieve this?
What resources or
support will I need?
What is my success
criteria?
Ethical issues I have understood
that due to
globalisation there is
rise in ethical issues.
It increases the
challenges in the
market and due to the
same competition in
market also rise. The
business organisation
works to achieve
success.
I need to study
effectively in class. I
must also do research
so that I am able to
know about the
changes in market
condition and the
issues that arise. There
are certain ethical
issues that will
enhance my
knowledge and assist
me to achieve success
in career. By knowing
the details information
about the company I
will be able to know
about the issuers
being faced by them.
By formulating
action plan, I will be
able to analyse
success. There are
certain points that
help to enhance my
knowledge and
action plan will help
me to check that I
have enhanced those
points or not. I will
be able to know the
time in which my
skills will be
developed and
enhanced by me.
Corporate social
responsibility
I have analysed that
there is importance of
corporate social
responsibility for
every business. The
company have
positive impact of
I am able to analyse
that CSR must be
followed by the
company. It is a
challenging situation
for the business if they
will not follow CSR.
There is need to
know about the
action that will
enhance my
knowledge. By
mentioning all the
points at a place and

they are able to
follow responsibility
and able to achieve
goals and objectives
in proper manner.
There is key role of
the practice in the
organisation.
There is need to
follow the principle of
CSR and its
importance so that the
business organisation
must follow the same.
making notes related
to the topic helps to
enhance my
knowledge.
Code of conduct Each and every
business organisation
must follow code of
conduct. There is
need to know about
the CSR activities
and that will assist
them to work in
direction. There is
need to know the
conduct as they are
guide that must be
achieved by a
company. It helps the
company to come out
of ethical challenges.
These codes will help
me in future. These
must be followed by
companies so that
they are able to
achieve success.
There is need of a
proper plan that will
help me to learn
about the code of
conduct. I will note
down the name of
big companies and
learn to know about
their code of
conduct.

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that it is important for every organisation to
understand the nature of business environment. There is certain issue that the companies face so
they must identify the problems and way of solving them. In this report there is discussion
related to CSR and the code of conduct that must be followed by company to achieve success.
The discussion related to professional bodies is also important part of this report. It is important
for business organisation to know what is right for them so that they are able to take appropriate
decisions.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Alwagfi, A.A., Aljawarneh, N.M. and Alomari, K.A., 2020. Work ethics and social
responsibility: Actual and aspiration. Journal of Management Research, 12(1), pp.26-
36.
Ferrell, O.C and et.al., 2019. Business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and brand attitudes:
An exploratory study. Journal of Business Research, 95, pp.491-501.
Rossi, M and et.al., 2021. The effects of business ethics and corporate social responsibility on
intellectual capital voluntary disclosure. Journal of Intellectual Capital.
Sroka, W. and Szántó, R., 2018. Corporate social responsibility and business ethics in
controversial sectors: Analysis of research results. Journal of Entrepreneurship,
Management and Innovation, 14(3), pp.111-126.
Yuan, Y and et.al., 2020. Business strategy and corporate social responsibility. Journal of
Business Ethics, 162(2), pp.359-377.
Online
Unilever Business Integrity, 2021. [Online] Available through:
<https://www.unilever.com/planet-and-society/responsible-business/business-integrity/>