Project: Literature Review on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

This project presents a literature review focused on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The introduction defines literature reviews and their purpose, emphasizing their role in demonstrating knowledge and skills. The main body delves into the definition and significance of literature reviews, discussing their types and the process of producing them. The review then focuses on CSR, exploring its definition as a self-regulating enterprise model accountable to stakeholders, and examining its impact on gender equality in the workplace. It highlights the importance of CSR in promoting gender diversity, addressing discrimination, and improving women's career opportunities. The review also explores various mechanisms through which CSR can affect outcomes, including its role in mediating workplace diversity, signaling ethical concerns, and establishing formal CSR departments. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, reiterating the value of literature reviews in providing knowledge and insights into the chosen topic.

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Table of Contents
PROJECT- 2.....................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What is a literature review and what does it achieve....................................................................3
Write a literature review on the topic “Corporate Social responsibility”.....................................4
CONCLUSION.................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................................9

PROJECT- 2
INTRODUCTION
Literature review is a type of process that shows the knowledge about the particular topic.
This process is helping the reader to gain the knowledge and demonstrate their skill in different
areas. This report will discuss about the literature review and how it achieves the results and
outcome of particular areas. Furthermore, this report will discuss about the Literature review and
what does it can be achieved in proper manner. However, It is selecting the topic the Corporate
Social responsibility.
MAIN BODY
What is a literature review and what does it achieve.
Literature review is mainly shows the reader concepts and their depth knowledge towards
the subject areas. Another way, it is a type of scholar paper which includes the current knowledge
such as methodological contribution, substantive findings and theoretical concepts to particular
subject areas. Literature review is secondary sources that doesn't include the new or original
experimental work (Hart, 2018). For producing a literature review may also part of post graduate
and graduate people those who are understands theory and concept behind the particular topic. It
has ability to review the report relevant on the literature. It situated the project focus within the
context of wider academic community and social responsibilities.
It needs to the readers to analyze the research project and also assume to find the goo idea
regarding the topic. There are three important type that help to achieve the review about the
project or particular topic such as evaluative, instrumental and exploratory etc. These are
different review focused on the research questions and also help for identifying the high quality
of evidence or arguments related the questions. It is typically systematic approach to find the
solution by using statistical method and combine the information used for particular case study.
In this way, it produces a reliable result and outcomes. This process is reviewing the literature
require through a variety of activities and thinking. For Example- Corporate social responsibility
is one of common prominent additions to address the corporate governance literature review
about the business. CSR is impressive thing in the business world to maintain the equality at
workplace. It mainly focuses on the gender diversity which potential important result of CSR. It

is motivated by the current scenario of public policy, procedures which emphasis on the
promotions of women employee.
Purpose of Literature review
Literature review is the main foundation of knowledge about the project. It helps for
reader to identify the areas of prior scholarship to prevent the duplication and give credit to the
person (Mirjalili, Dong and Lewis, 2019). The purpose is to determine the inconsistency when
the question are left from the other research topic. In this way, it can be determine the
relationship of works and its contribution towards the topic.
Role of literature review
There are some specific roles to give the understanding of scholar research on particular research
areas.
 It demonstrates that the person are well informed scholar with the proper expertise or
knowledge about the field and areas. In this way, it is an overview of the currents state of
literature review.
 It provides the synthesis of trends, concepts and issues. It easy to lose the sight of this
when person is doing the research.
Write a literature review on the topic “Corporate Social responsibility”
The literature on Corporate Social responsibility is the vast area which includes the
contribution from the diverse disciplines. There are large number of excellent literature review
articles that provide the brief idea about concept of CSR. It is usually demonstrates theoretical
exploration which possible interplay between the inequality diversity and CSR.
As per Crane, Matten and Spence, (2019) Corporate Social responsibility is a self
regulation enterprise model that help for organization be socially accountable to the public and
stakeholders. It is also known as corporate citizen, companies can be conscious of different
impact they are having all aspects of society such as environmental, economic and social etc. It
also engages with the CSR which is operating the business to enhance the society instead of
contributing negative ways. Cummings, (2018) on the other hand, Corporate social responsibility
is a type of board concept that take many forms which depends on the company. It is important
for community because it helps to give more values in the organization. CSR has performed
different activities to create strong bond between corporation and employee.

According to de Jonge, (2018) Corporate social responsibility is considered as a valuable
tool to create gender equality at workplace. It is the main concept in the workplace because it
helps as a Pillar of CSR. In this way, companies are increasingly addressed the gender equality
which includes it within the CSR programs. Many people have shortage of skilled labor and
growth in the participation of women at workplace. The gender perspective in CSR play
important role for achieving the gender equality through different activities, strategies and
policies that provide equal right to the people. According to Hardacre, and Subašić, (2018)
Women have faced many discrimination in both home and societal level. The gender equality has
been the schema in terms of social research or activism. The developing nation has faced the
tremendous problems in secure the employment. Women's are working the same job as men
made 82% of wages and 3 % of world CEO are women. At that time, It has increased the
remarkable in the world where women working at workplace over the year. In this way, it has
increase the highly educated women and having technical expertise in their own Zone.
As per author view Kato and Kodama, (2018) The overall situation of women and gender
equality are affected through the organizational policies, procedures, values and stricture. There
are many stakeholders follows the traditional concept and have old mental perception related the
women or commitment towards the job. In this way, they are categorizing the specific role of
women and men in the corporate world. The organization is offering the position to women with
real power and supervisory authority. They are giving the responsibilities such as production,
sales etc. it also observed that many organizations have well documented and successfully
communicated with the policies but it is not necessary to implement in the business practice. On
the other hand, Lindholm, (2018) Social culture perception which establish the behavior and
attitudes of individual men and women at workplace but also faced the barriers regarding the
equal participation of women at worker level. There are different factors that affects the role of
women such as legal structure, society directly and enforces certain practices. Sometimes, women
also tolerate the standards of work time, priority or specific role. The most common societal
notions that women playing primary role as a housewife and job is another priority. Social
perception always affects the ability of women to work into different departments, over time and
perform their specific duties.
According to author Loosemore and et.al., (2018) Personal factor is another which
regarding to the women that affect the growth of career such as attitude, behavioral skills and

personality of women, less inspiration towards the management, self confidence, motivation and
self esteem etc. These are the challenges affecting the overall performance of women because
they are emotionally unstable. In this way, it has faced challenges to handle the tough or complex
situation of business. It is required for developing the personality, managerial style that
encourage the women to understand their cultural values, attitudes. It is strongly support the
women and their domestic responsibilities as priority over the career aspirations. On the other
hand, Mei Romero-Balsas and Castrillo-Bustamante, (2019) women has inspirations because they
are handles the work in both ways. Self motivation is an important factor of women because they
have so many responsibilities to manage the both type of work regarding corporation and home.
These type of personal factors are playing important role in career growth and development.
Omar and et.al., (2018) It is naturally interested in the effects of Corporation social
responsibilities on the performance of business and other result measures. A Majority of evidence
for pointing the significant positive linkage between the financial performance and CSR. It helps
to recognize the number of potential serious limitations in the existing case study. It is mainly
focused on the outcomes and other financial performance that help to increase the productivity or
profitability.
As per Potdar, Guthrie and Garry, (2018) The gender diversity at workplace as the results
of CSR outcomes where it has increased the highest level of business process. Especially, there
are impressive evidence to point out the significance role of women in the corporate world. They
becoming a board members in promoting the CSR to improve the reputation.
Russell and Smith, (2018)The effects on the results of CSR tends to neglect the gender
diversity at workplace as possible results of CSR, while the business as a predictor of CSR that
tends to focus on the gender diversity at the highest level. It cannot be neglected the gender at the
business aspects because it has a strong between the standards of CSR by concern on the gender
diversity at the different levels. In this way, it is considering the best outcome and results of
Corporate social responsibilities.
Torres Jain and Leka, (2019) In spite the fastest growing on CSR, it is quite relative about
the specific mechanisms where CSR may affect the results in general or inequality diversity at
workplace. There are some possible mechanism to find the new finding related the gender
diversity at workplace. Therefore, Kato and Kodama, (2018) The first possible mechanisms is

considered as the mediating which effects on the working life of people. Corporate social Hart,
C., 2018. Doing a literature review: Releasing the research imagination. Sage.
responsibility often includes the work place diversity as one of the most important objectives
such as HR management, policies, procedures that are particularly conducive to improve the
career of women in global world. In this way, Female worker take more advantages to improve
the performance and efficiency through policies, legislation and advance careers. In short, it may
work as powerful mediators for effecting to the gender diversity at workplace.
Second possible mechanism has suggested by authorKato and Kodama, (2018). It is
applied the signaling theory in CSR to context of inequality diversity in the organizations. Female
employee is to be considered as a strong part of CSR because it is incredible signal in the
business to concern about the ethical issue at workplace. Many business are focused on the
fairness and they believed to give equal opportunities for people. As a result, CSR help the
organization to recruit the right person and retain gifted women with the motivation or
inspiration. In this way, it will increase the gender diversity at workplace. The signaling effects
on the long time development. Women employees are participating whether continuous trying to
achieve their career goals with high level of management system. Sometimes. Objective may be
changed on the basis of need and requirement of enterprise.
Kato and Kodama, (2018) The last possible mechanism that consider and applying on the
gender diversity at the different level of human resources. Companies are establishing formal
departments of CSR to increase the presence of women as a CEO and director level. It is still
below the management level.

CONCLUSION
As per discussion, it concluded that Literature review is a type of process that shows the
knowledge about the particular topic. It also is helping the reader to gain the knowledge and
demonstrate their skill in different areas. It summarized that the literature review and how it
achieves the results and outcome of particular areas. Furthermore, It also discusses about the
Literature review and what does it can be achieved in proper manner. However, It is selecting the
topic the Corporate Social responsibility.

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