Leadership and CSR: Analyzing Tesco's 'Let's Clean Up Fashion' Case

This case study examines Tesco's "Let's Clean Up Fashion" initiative, focusing on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and leadership management. The study introduces the case, discussing wage-related issues and Tesco's efforts to improve employee welfare. It explores various CSR models and how Tesco implements them through environmental responsibility, customer campaigns, and strategic management. The analysis delves into leadership topics like employee management, corporate governance, and individual leadership within Tesco. Key aspects include the establishment of a CSR committee, environmental campaigns, and strategic initiatives to improve wages and employee skills. The study also covers Tesco's strategies for corporate governance, employee engagement, and the role of individual leadership in achieving CSR goals. Recommendations are provided for improving organizational focus on CSR through management ethics and leadership theories.

Case study
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Introduction to the case study:................................................................................................2
Leadership and management related topics:...........................................................................4
Theories and philosophies which are related to the case study..............................................7
Recommendation for improving the act of organisations....................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERNCE...................................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Corporate social responsibility is a basic social issue that is taking place across different
parts of the in many organisations. In a detailed discussion of CSR activities there are certain
aspects that have to be applied in order to compliance with all the CSR activities. There are
different types of CSR models that are part of Retail Industry and have client towards overall
management of supplies in these models are used for responding to different challenges that in
the of every organisation (Zerbini, 2017). Report is based on a case study that is on a leading
retail organisation that is Tesco with the name let's clean up fashion. Introduction of the case
study and for the dearest framing of the case with the help of different leadership and
management approaches that are related to concepts of CSR corporate governance strategic
management employee management and individual leadership further there is discussion of the
case with the help of different philosophies and theories of ethics utilitarianism discourse ethics.
Lastly there are some recommendations that are being provided about how organisation must can
you search theories of Management ethics and leadership to increase the overall focus on the
concept of CSR.
Introduction to the case study:
The present case study is based on the topic "Let's clean up fashion" , there is a detailed
discussion on different issues related to wages and how Tesco has taken initiated different
projects for sustainable improvement for handling the major issue of wages related to their
overall workforce (Grayson, and Hodges, 2017). There is requirement to make sustainable
improvements in specific weight and different types of face related for that are being undertaken
in the case of let's clean up passion. Many activities that were taken for improvement of the
overall minimum wages that are being offered to overall work post it consists of lengthening of
the work of of ethical experts in the country rewarding of all the ethical suppliers from time to
time helping suppliers in Planning their production manufacturing process in the organisation.
Activities that were part of the overall campaign was building up of long term relationship so
that different investment can be initiated consolidation of the supplier base and offering support
to a list supplier. Tesco has to accept some minimum wage levels where very low and there was
a weight survey that was conducted for increasing the overall process of setting wages for which
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policies have to be set up for their overall workforce (Analysis Of Tesco’s Corporate Social
Responsibility Management Essay, 2016 ).
Examples of Corporate social responsibility initiates by Tesco:
Corporate social responsibility committee in Tesco was established in the year 2001 and
it comprises of cross functional executive that has the aim to met all the objectives that have
been set by the top management authorities Tesco. This committee was headed by the director
and the group Corporate Affairs and they were releasing their first report in the year 2001. Tesco
has a steering wheel Framework that has been used for the purpose of measuring their
achievement of CSR key performance indicators that form a part of operations quadrant and
dealing in the responsible and safe segment.
Environmental responsibility:
According to (An update on our Corporate Responsibility , 2016) Tesco has launched
their energy awareness campaign since the year 1996. The company has a staff member that is
taking active part in management of all their stores and monitoring its energy uses and working
towards reduction of waste. Tesco has successfully able to reduce energy consumption by 35%
between the year 1997 and 2005 and by the year 2016 have also planned it to reduce it further by
5%.
According to (An update on our Corporate Responsibility , 2016) Tesco has formed a
charity partnership with diabetes UK and also with British Heart Foundation that is having a in to
tackle and prevent heart diseases (Wang and Sarkis, 2017). They are having voluntary efforts for
their colleagues and they have already raised approximately 13.7 million pounds since the year
January 2015. After money is aimed at funding for joint projects that are helping millions of
people in improvement of their health.
Customer campaigns:
For example Tesco has in establish their stores in Central Europe they are improving the
health of 25 key Product lines. They have been celebrating their 15 years partnership with trees
for life and fundraising for many Cancer Research Institutions of UK and also encouraging their
colleague and customers to take part in it. Also having environment since the year 2016 they
have continued to reduce the carbon intensity of their stores and distribution centres and making
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progress towards 2020 target. In the year 15-16 they have achieved targets of reducing 39.5% of
the carbon emissions from their Store.
According to (An update on our Corporate Responsibility , 2016) Tesco is also making
their supply chains for understanding the exposure of freshwater availability and contaminating
of risk particularly in the sensitive river basins. Culture is accounting for 60% of the supplies in
footprint 97% of the waterproof mint and the maturity impact is on the biodiversity.
Leadership and management related topics:
Tesco is focusing on increasing the overall scale of workers as a part of their
improvement plan so that they are able to achieve rise in their wages according to their develop
skills. There has been engagement in ETV based project for further coming years that will help
in bring the output from various such initiative project and giving attention for delivering the
living wages according to the size of organisation (Uduji. and Okolo‐Obasi., 2017).
There are certain leadership and Management related topics that are part of overall initiative and
case study that was score and a part of overall CSR management.
CSR: According to (Meyer, Neckand Meeks, 2017), Corporate social responsibility is a
societal issue that is helping organisations that are part of food Retail Industry to gain more
momentum. There are many different types of CSR Business models that a part of Retail
Industry and all these are inclined towards management of overall supply chain and different
effort that are divided basically in some categories clutches environment for community for
suppliers for customer and all other people who are directly or indirectly involved in smooth
functioning of the organisation. There are certain Areas where over a CSR initiatives of Tesco
are based on:
1) Education: What is the key area of their partnership was with "I can" that is a charity
initiative helping children to with various difficulties language difficulties and the plan of heart
failure scholarships in different cultural Community Centre. Special program named as computer
for schools was also started for making schools equipped with new technologies.
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2) Charity: Tesco Charity trust has been established in 1987 for supporting local communities
and national communities for making brands to different Charity units. There is a 1% of the
overall present profits that is meant by Tesco on supporting charities and good causes.
3) Environment: For the protection of overall environment Tesco has made attempts to integrate
their corporate social responsibility for environmental management for discussing different
issues like resources emission waste recycling products of company. Further other issues that are
being covered is animal welfare travel vehicle efficiency green transport organic food. Tesco is
the organisation that is having concern for water conservation and Energy Efficiency for
environmental impact and it on customers and operations of company.
Strategic management: According to (Ginter, Duncan and Swayne, 2018), Strategic
management is related to different strategies that have to be formulated with respect to
implementation of CSR activities in an organization. In case of the case study it can be said that
there were many strategies that were adopted by Tesco cement of their overall mission for
sustainable development and improvement. Such as table improvements in wages that were
made the overall productivity of employees helping them to increase their skills with the help of
initiatives in terms of more training opportunities that were provided to all the employees and
help them in resolving their wage related issues.
Another strategy that was adopted in this case was setting clear expectations in this astu
their suppliers in improvement of overall productivity different activities that were undertaken in
this project consists of increasing the lead time helping suppliers in Planning their overall
production by suppliers who are working ethically and taking suggestions on improvement from
various ethical experts (Kim, and Austin, 2019). These were some of the activities and strategies
that were adopted in their overall planning.
Government governance: According to views of (Meyer, Neckand Meeks, 2017),
Corporate governance is a key aspect of the overall CSR activities of organization as it relates to
different ethical practices of a business organization and its responsiveness to environment and
all other associated stakeholders of the company that are helping in carrying on its functioning.
The strong relationship between overall practices of corporate governance and CSR activities
emphasized by retail organizations such as Tesco
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Employee management: It is related with the amount of who are engaged in a particular.
Initiatives (Anggraeni, Dwiatmadja and Yuniawan, 2017). In the present case study of Tesco
their overall all the initiative were based on Welfare of employees and increasing the living
wages for workers who are paid below living wage level so complete support of employees that
was required in undertaking all the activities that were part of overall plan. Co has accepted that
over or minimum levels of ways are unacceptable in law and they have conducted a survey
lawyers in Bangladesh chat results into some conclusions drawn that employees are paid very
low that it becomes very difficult for some of them to even basic necessities which are
compulsory for survival of an individual. The server actually resulted in Bangladesh time there
was a training great for various workers that was actually manipulated by different suppliers for
period of time. There was a small piece of work that was to be improved for wages but it lead to
pay packets with for the lead to legal minimum standard and no more (Marek, 2018). Core belief
has been that productivity can be a best route for living wages there must be support on skilling
the workers improvement can be made paying such workers more than their present level of
wages. There is a strong requirement that in the coming period of time there have to be some
more initiative in this case related to ETI wages project in the coming period of time that can
result into more output waste projects and attention towards delivering the living wages to
employees. there is development of a employee engagement program has been started in which
year training and individual development and growth options will be offered to employees they
have to make initiative to participate and support the overall Action Plan that has been taken
under the case study by their organization Tesco.
Individual leadership: According to (Schilling and Shankar, 2019), By making an
analysis of the above case study it can be said that in terms of individual leadership action it can
be clearly said that Tesco has taken many initiatives and appointed leaders in their organization
at different levels who can help them in supporting and carrying on different small action plan
that are more time oriented for development of their employees as individuals and overall
achievement of targeted goals in relation with CSR initiatives (Muzzio, 2017). There has been
good individual leadership that is implemented across Organization in which leaders are willing
to take views of their subordinates at different views regarding all the major decision that will be
affecting employees so it is leading towards enhancement of the overall moral of employees as
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they feel that they are important for the organization and their views are being considered
whenever an important decision has to be taken (Larrea., Aranguren. and Valdaliso, 2017).
Theories and philosophies which are related to the case study
There are number of which can be used in this case study where is selected organisation
can perform its corporate social responsibility in an effective manner by identify different
categories and classifying them according to the theories and condition prescribed in theory,
Corporate social responsibility by use of ethical behaviour which are also covered in this type of
philosophies and theories. Some of these theories are mentioned below which can be used by
organisation for fulfilling the corporate social responsibility and solving the particular issue
within the specified time limit:
Theory of utilitarianism: this is system moral theory that advocates the actions which promote
the overall willingness and pleasure and reject the actions which cause the unhappiness or half
made in the organisation. According to (Shaw, 2016), It can be said as a unilateral philosophy
which direct help in making social economical political divisions which are to better the society.
Philosophy was given by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart mill. Both are philosopher as well as
political thinkers in United Kingdom. Tesco can use this policy to make the corporate social
responsibility as a core element within the organisation. For following the application of
corporate social responsibility test individual can use the breaking down utilitarianism
(Ebenstein, 2018). Where, it can provide the greater happiness to the peoples in the society who
needs the support from such type of organisation. For this it have to make it clear that what is
right for company and what is wrong for it. Theory further edited by mills where he said that
intellectual pressures are better in kind than others through this highly motivation can be drive
from the society which will helpful in implementation of corporate social responsibility by the
organisation and fulfil the needs of the society by this (Shaw, 2016). For example, Tesco is
operating globally where it have a large number of human resources within the organisation. For
filling the duty of corporate social responsibility organisation use this theory where it it
eliminated different factors related to and happiness within the organisation or which cause the
decrease in the pleasure of employees. These are extra working hour, non-paid leaves and many
more. Thisimpacted positively increase motivation of the staff as well as proper implementation
of the corporate social responsibility factors within the firm because of fuller motivation and
utilisation of resources.
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Kantianism theory: according to findings of (Mills, 2017), Kantianism theory wall
given by Professor Immanuel Kant, Now this theory is also known as Kantianism because of
further expansion made by Elizabeth Anscombe. that is Can't believe that certain type of actions
like include murder theft line per absolutely property, PSP the actual would bring about happier
less than the alternative. Author (Kavoulakos, 2018), State that there are two type of question
which an organisation has to ask from itself for deciding the corporate social responsibility and
its act associated with this responsibility. In context of Tesco, company have to ask a question
which are can company rationally will that everyone act as company proposed to act and if the
answer is in no form then company have to stop the action which it is prescribing or following
for corporate social responsibility. Next question which company should ask from itself is, does
the action of the company respect its goals are being human for them marry using them for their
own purpose. In books of (Edgar, 2018), Company get the answer in new form then it must stop
the action which we doing because they are not corporate social responsibility and will not
effective while working on them ((Brennan and Kliemt, 2017). This theory is directly related to
the action done by the Tesco Company lost share in 2017, when there is a fraudulent practice
within the organisation and its accounts. This company have to identify that, what and what are
the major impact of this according to that theory(Chaly, 2018).
Discourse ethics: these are those in ethics which are referred to the type of argument that
attempt to establish normative or ethical test exam meaning the position of disclosure. There are
number of arguments which are used for establishing this type of ethics. These are also known as
libertarian ethics (Krüger, 2016). German philosophers mass and simple are considered as the
originator of this type of ethics. These are things are generally consists of public discourse ethics
and presuppositions with universalization. this philosophy propounded by this professor will also
helpful to the Tesco in fulfilling its corporate social responsibilities. This is because they are
helpful in disclosing which are related to public as well as identifying the presuppositions which
are going in the market where the organisation is dealing (Martínez, D., 2018).it also helpful the
organisation in minimising the negative impact as well as universalization of the organisation
where company can communicate and express the universal obligation to maintain imperative
judgement related to corporate social responsibility and can form its program more effective.
According to (Martin, 2016), The program like funding the education of children as well as
providing environment concerned it analyse the market as well as non-market condition.
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Company all the social responsibility by providing living wages to the employees where number
of employees is satisfied by the company's policies and procedures (Hutchings, 2018) . The
initiative started by the company in the name of let's clean up the fashion is also successful plan
for fulfilling the corporate social responsibility but it have to consider the. Some of which are
stated by this theory as well as the professor, who propounded the theory for getting maximum
advantage in the market (Reisigl, M., 2017).
Virtue ethics: It is the oldest story related to the ethics where virtue ethics normative
ethics which are related to the normative ethical theory with the impression on virtue of the mind
characteristics and sense of honesty (Wang, 2018). Virtually discuss the nature and definition of
the virtue and other related problems that focus on a person's consequence of action.it is directly
associated that how the virtual are acquired how they are applied to the various stages of the
organisation while fulfilling the corporate responsibility and whether they are rooted as a
universal human nature in a purity of cultures. Directly related to the abilities of top level
management within the organisation.in the context of Tesco top level management have number
of authority which it executes while performing corporate social responsibility (Smith, 2017).
The top level management of test is inbuilt of number of moral virtues which are courage
temperance liberty magnificence truthfulness and wittiness. This makes the top level
management a devoted path toward the social responsibilities where it follows number of
function. Company also losing its position in 2017 because of some unethical practices by the
member’s staff but now it improving these all things by the help of its functions and corporate
social responsibilities (Duffy, 2017).
Ethics of care: it is that type of normative ethical theory which food that the more Well
action centre on and personal relationship and care. This story is based on the families and
created by the feminist in the second half century of 20 century. According to the author there
are four elements in an air which includes attractiveness, responsibility, competence and
responsiveness. These are must for the organisation to follow the ethical consideration in the
market (Parton, N., 2003). Company like Tesco also follow this type of functions for maintaining
the ethical consideration especially regarding the female customers of the company where it can
fulfil its responsibility by empowering the women. Into this theory company have to develop
number of options for women entrepreneurs are the customers of the company a society
members for increasing their welfare. The common difference between the ethics of justice and
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care for that ethics of justice describe the ethics and moral reasoning common to men and
preferred by some stages which are related to development of men (Waerness, K., 2018). Here
company have to follow both of the ethics where it can follow the demand of both men and
women within the society where it can fulfil its corporate social responsibility by maintaining the
both section of society.
Recommendation for improving the act of organisations
Tesco is a well reputed organisation in the British market as well as in global business
companies operating more than 10000 stores on the globe, It also employee more than 200000
employees, which is also a big number if it is considered about the employment ratio of world.
But company is lacking behind in following the social responsibilities which it have to follow to
give the society of contribute by the side of firm (Stemple, Roy and Klaben, 2018). For this it
can also use the help of management give readership theory which will provide firm the ethical
consideration which it has to make for following the corporate responsibilities of the
organisation in context of society. For improving the performance of the organisation as well as
help form in guiding and way what fulfilment of corporate social responsibility, there are some
recommendation which are mentioned below:
 Tesco have to use theories of management which will help organisations in fulfilling its
corporate social responsibility in the market. It can use scientific principles given by the
tailor where it can define each and every individual in a scientific manner (Chonody and
Teater, 2016). Company can use time and motion study as well as interest of the
employee and employer which will help organisation in identifying the proper structure
for fulfilling its corporate responsibilities.
 Company can also use the Henry fuels administrative management theory which is form
on the basis of 14 principles (Hayes, 2018). Company can fulfil its social responsibilities
by following all these 14 principles within the organisation where it can use maximum
out of the resources and give society the profit which it earn more than its expectation the
use of this theory.
 Company can also use the different leadership styles and theories where it can increase
the motivation of its employee as well as increase the profitability of the organisation.
Profit is the only thing which can help the firm in in fulfilling its social corporate
responsibilities which it has to fulfil for the society where the organisation is working
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(Nawaz and Khan, 2016). With the use of leadership theory like democratic leadership
company can increase the motivation of its employee where it uses them in getting the
suggestions about the work (Antonakis and Day, 2018).
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above mentioned report that earth explain important role an
organisation which also motivate the organisation to fulfil its corporate social responsibilities. It
is also analyse that there are number of corporate social responsibility is which have to follow by
the organisation to effectively run its business as well as fulfil the obligation towards the society
where the form currently working.it is also analyse that there are number of theories which are
related to ethical considerations as well as corporate social responsibilities which can help the
form like test for to fulfil its initiatives regarding the corporate social responsibilities as well as
maximize profits and productivity within the organisation by the use of management theories and
leadership styles.
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