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MGT211 Introduction To Business Assignment No. 1 Fall Semester 2012
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS (MGT 211) FALL 2012
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
DUE DATE: 21 NOVEMBER, 2012
MARKS: 20
ASSIGNMENT:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Learning objectives: Create awareness that how business decisions might affect the interests of stakeholder groups.
Case:
Corporate social, ethical and environmental awareness has become essential for businesses. Companies are liable to consider the interests of all stakeholders while performing their activities and making decisions. Business operations should not be exclusively focused to meet the objectives of shareholders and investors; which is the maximization of profit. Corporate must adopt a wider perspective when setting their objectives. The concept of corporate social responsibility explains us to assess the social impact of a business; it covers pollution levels, usage of energy, reprocessing and recycling rates, contributions to community, employee benefit programs and customer satisfaction. Business operations and decisions may have positive and negative impact on customers, employees, suppliers, community and environment.
Some typical business decisions in real world are as follows:
a)
A business is planning for large expansion by building a new factory.
b)
Application of technology into production and business processes
c)
Business uses solar energy to run some operations.
Requirement:
Being the student of business education, you are required to analyze the likely positive and negative effects of these decisions on employees, customers and society at large (community).
Note: Solution should be to the point and logical, irrelevant material in solution is not allowed.
OTHER IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:
DEADLINE:
Make sure to upload the solution file before the due date on VULMS.
Any submission made via email after the due date will not be accepted.
FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
Use the font style “Times New Roman” or “Arial” and font size “12”.
It is advised to compose your document in MS-Word format.
You may also compose your assignment in Open Office format.
Use black and blue font colors only.
REFERENCING GuIDELINES:
Use APA style for referencing and citation. For guidance search “APA reference style” in Google and read various website containing information for better understanding or visit APA REFERENCE STYLE: Table of Contents (http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/APA01.html)
RULES FOR MARKING
Please note that your assignment will not be graded or graded as Zero (0), if:
It is submitted after the due date.
The file you uploaded does not open or is corrupt.
It is in any format other than MS-Word or Open Office; e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, PDF etc.
It is cheated or copied from other students, internet, books, journals etc.
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS (MGT 211) FALL 2012
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
DUE DATE: 21 NOVEMBER, 2012
MARKS: 20
ASSIGNMENT:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Learning objectives: Create awareness that how business decisions might affect the interests of stakeholder groups.
Case:
Corporate social, ethical and environmental awareness has become essential for businesses. Companies are liable to consider the interests of all stakeholders while performing their activities and making decisions. Business operations should not be exclusively focused to meet the objectives of shareholders and investors; which is the maximization of profit. Corporate must adopt a wider perspective when setting their objectives. The concept of corporate social responsibility explains us to assess the social impact of a business; it covers pollution levels, usage of energy, reprocessing and recycling rates, contributions to community, employee benefit programs and customer satisfaction. Business operations and decisions may have positive and negative impact on customers, employees, suppliers, community and environment.
Some typical business decisions in real world are as follows:
a)
A business is planning for large expansion by building a new factory.
b)
Application of technology into production and business processes
c)
Business uses solar energy to run some operations.
Requirement:
Being the student of business education, you are required to analyze the likely positive and negative effects of these decisions on employees, customers and society at large (community).
Note: Solution should be to the point and logical, irrelevant material in solution is not allowed.
OTHER IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:
DEADLINE:
Make sure to upload the solution file before the due date on VULMS.
Any submission made via email after the due date will not be accepted.
FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
Use the font style “Times New Roman” or “Arial” and font size “12”.
It is advised to compose your document in MS-Word format.
You may also compose your assignment in Open Office format.
Use black and blue font colors only.
REFERENCING GuIDELINES:
Use APA style for referencing and citation. For guidance search “APA reference style” in Google and read various website containing information for better understanding or visit APA REFERENCE STYLE: Table of Contents (http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/apa/APA01.html)
RULES FOR MARKING
Please note that your assignment will not be graded or graded as Zero (0), if:
It is submitted after the due date.
The file you uploaded does not open or is corrupt.
It is in any format other than MS-Word or Open Office; e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, PDF etc.
It is cheated or copied from other students, internet, books, journals etc.