Strategic Management and Socially Conscious Organization

Strategic Management and Socially Conscious Organization
Student’s name
Institutional affiliation
Microsoft
Introduction
Microsoft Company is a technology company that creates, develops, and sells Consumer electronics, software and personal computers. This Company believes in good corporate residency and citizenship. The company believes in supporting local communities and supporting its own workers. Further, Microsoft is a good and responsible partner to all its business associates. The company is keen on how it behaves and treats its stakeholders through ensuring that their voices are heard. For instance, the company engages parents and experts of human rights concerning children’s online safety. Microsoft work has also been aligned with frameworks and priorities that are internationally recognized like United National Global Compact and Human Rights (Microsoft, 2016).
Microsoft’s Mission and Vision
Mission: "Create a wide range of services and devices for people and businesses around the world for accomplishing actions they worth most." (Microsoft, 2015)
Vision: “To empower all people and organizations on earth to realize more” (Microsoft, 2015)
How the vision and mission are translated into strategy
Microsoft has a corporate Citizenship Mission that aims at serving the community through partnerships and innovative technologies as well as delivering their business duty of value and growth to customers, employees and shareholders. This corporate mission guides this company as a corporate citizen and further gives a framework through which it addresses technologies, new markets and business models.
How Microsoft aligns its mission and vision to the following:
Corporate social responsibility: The Mission of Microsoft is to help people recognize their potential. To realize this mission, Microsoft through CSR practices responsible practices of business and community services. The company works daily with its partners, customers, employees and society to speed up economic growth, sanction youth and tackle many societal opportunities as well as challenges (Microsoft corporate citizenship,...