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The video Business Ethics Corporate Social Responsibility further explains CSR.

Use the website GRI’s Sustainability Disclosure Database to obtain a company’s most recent sustainability report. Once you get to the site, click home and then click Search, at the top.

Please filter your search by your pathway, by selecting sectors (industries) that are in your pathway. Select an industry that you are interested in, and a US company. Once you find a company report that you’re interested in, open and read the introduction to the report. Scan through the report, as needed, in order to answer the following questions.

  • What is the name of your company? What industry is it in? What is your pathway.
  • Why did you select his company?
  • Describe one initiative that this company is working on in the area of CSR.
  • What do you think the impact of this company’s policy will be on their short-term and long-term profits?
  • Discuss what your knowledge of CSR was before this assignment and how this assignment has impacted your view of CSR. Include any personal experience you have had with CSR as an employee or other stakeholder.

Please site the source of your information. You may use other sites in addition to the one provided above.

Your initial post should be a minimum of 3 paragraphs long, detailed, thorough, and answers all of the above questions.

Read all of the other posts. Reply to at least two other student’s posts, commenting on what their company is doing in the area of CSR and the impact on one group of stakeholders (employees, owners, management, customers, suppliers, the community). Your replies must be at least 5 sentences long each, detailed and thorough.

Proper capitalization, spelling, grammar, etc. are required.

Examples of sectors/industries in pathways could be:

  • AHCD: Media, Dance, Theater, Film production, Graphics design or Architecture
  • Business: Tourism/Leisure, Telecommunications, Retailers, Computers, Equipment, Food and Beverage Products, Real Estate, Technology Hardware, Toys, Commercial Services, Financial Services, any business is acceptable
  • Education: Non-Profit Services, Public Agency, Child care, Charter schools, Universities
  • Health Sciences: Health Care Services, Healthcare Products, Hospital, Household Products, Chemicals
  • IMCT: Aviation, Construction, Construction Materials, Logistics, Automotive, Mining
  • Public Safety: Equipment providers for the industry, Public Agency, Non-Profit Services
  • STEM: Engineering, Computers. Chemicals, Energy, Energy Utilities, Technology Hardware
  • SGSHS: Healthcare Services, Non-Profit Services, Media, Public Agency