Personal Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility
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Institution
Table of Contents
Explanation of the Arguments from a Personal Perspective 3
Critical Evaluation 4
References 7
Explanation of the Arguments from a Personal Perspective
Corporate Social Responsibility is a critical tool that all business entities embrace in order to accrue the desired successes. The review seeks to identify the constituents of corporate social responsibility and the ideal protocol of engaging them to acquire the set goals and objectives. Aneel Karnani connotes several items in the article that are salient to deciphering the desired relevance upon the business environment. From the article, it is evident that CSR programs are non-profit events, which enable companies to build correlations with their target customers in the society (Karnani, 2014). The process is a disguise to attract the society to the companies’ products and programs. The review further identifies the intensity at which the companies evaluate the elements of corporate social responsibility in ensuring moralities in managing its target groups’ problems. The review sets the basis for evaluating the purpose of companies to embrace the CSR ideology in pursuing profits in their enterprises.
Since different societies exhibit different characteristics depending on their social beliefs and practices, it is obvious that the practices shall extend to affect the demand and supply utilities of products. Therefore, the application of CSR programs with a perspective that the targeted communities shall support the business programs and products. Mainly, culture defines the consumption patterns of products, and organizations should be knowledgeable of a market segment’s cultural practices since its effects may affect business progressions in the short and long runs. For example, fast food shops have the advantage to survive in Turkey holding that most of the famous words used in naming various types of snacks emanate from the country’s language. Mainly, Turkish nationals often embrace highlife in the night thus; they show an insatiable appetite for hamburgers and kebabs as it has been the norm of the society since the beginning of the 14th century.
In the article, the author establishes the economic, legal, social, and philanthropic responsibilities as the key factors that organizations’ managements should ensure close supervision in order to accrue the desired interrelationships with their stakeholder groups. Further, the essence of CSR in addressing and managing stakeholders by identifying three types of morals and orientation towards stakeholders and the society in general is retrogressive, as it might not yield the desired outcomes to the companies (Karnani, 2014). The criteria for judging the article focuses on establishing whether the article’s contents coincide with the title in order to inhibit chances of confusion.
The judging criteria seeks to evaluate whether the CSR approach is incisive in articulating the importance of the topic such that the readers are certain of accruing beneficial knowledge from the study, which will be functional in promoting companies’ decision-making processes and the methods used in addr...