...Corporate Citizenship refers to an organization's commitment to social and environmental responsibility worldwide not only locally or regionally. With this in mind, i do believe that gap did just so. When they became the target of various protest by human rights groups who alleged that gap's products were made in sweat shops where children were employed and people were under paid. Instead of denying these charges gap turned to SAI to help develop a Code Of Vendor Conduct. Yes i think that they did. Elementary Stage- They reacted when they started to get bad publicity from these allegations. Engaged Stage- They listened to the protesters and enlisted the help of SAI to develop a software that will enable them to keep a close eye on the vendors that they do business with and to ensure that these vendors followed the code of conduct. Innovative Stage- They updated its code by including other form of unnacceptable discrimination. They also made it a requirement for factories not to interfere with workers rights to organize and bargain collectively. Intergrated stage- To assure that vendors were complying they hired VCOs. These Vendor Compliance Officers were from the communities where they worked therefore the language and customs were not a problem. These VCOs aiudited more than 1000 factories in more than 50 countries. Transforming Stage- Gap worked with other contracters to remedy problems that arose. They also adopted the view of find,fix and prevent. They partnered with...
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...America: Analyzing Corporate Citizenship In the words of Thomas Friedman, “If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.” With “bad neighborhoods” symbolizing customers, this portrays a direct consequence of what can happen if a company does not take into account the impacts of its business decisions. As society progresses through the 21st century, it is clear that the people along with the government are beginning to demand more from companies. Quality products and services are still highly regarded; however, becoming a good corporate citizen is turning out to be an important part of a company’s reputation. Good corporate citizenship is when companies look beyond business goals and take in consideration the effects of their business decisions. Giving back to the community is also something businesses do, however, is not part of good corporate citizenship. This is true because financially providing to a local community has no correlation to business as it is simply a way for businesses to advertise and market their product. Therefore, actions such as emphasizing an environmental program, using methods that respect social and cultural values, or providing employees with special benefits such as a company car or expense account illustrate examples of good corporate citizenship. Making sure stockholders, shareholders, and local residents are respectfully treated is also important. These actions constitute good corporate citizenship as businesses...
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...No. 04-2003 ICCSR Research Paper Series - ISSN 1479-5124 Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane Research Paper Series International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility ISSN 1479-5124 Editor: Dirk Matten International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility Nottingham University Business School Nottingham University Jubilee Campus Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB United Kingdom Phone +44 (0)115 95 15261 Fax +44 (0)115 84 66667 Email dirk.matten@nottingham.ac.uk www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ICCSR Corporate Citizenship: Towards an extended theoretical conceptualization Dirk Matten & Andrew Crane Abstract Corporate citizenship (CC) has emerged as a prominent term in the management literature dealing with the social role of business. This paper critically examines the content of contemporary understandings of CC and locates them within the extant body of research dealing with business-society relations. Two conventional views of CC are catalogued – a limited view which largely equates CC with strategic philanthropy and an equivalent view which primarily conflates CC with CSR. Significant limits and redundancies are subsequently identified in these views, and the need for an extended theoretical conceptualization is highlighted. The main purpose of the paper is thus to realize a theoretically informed definition of CC that is descriptively robust and conceptually distinct from existing concepts in...
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...Plato was one of the first to develop the concept of a political utopia. In The Republic, he attempted to outline the guidelines for a just society. Plato's Utopia appears, at first to be an excellent idea. However, his perfect society is less than the ideal, even from the contemporary perspective. Aristotle, through "The Politic” attempted to understand the nature of man in a "realistic" view. What Plato called ideal, Aristotle called unfeasible. He tries to make rationale judgment in the management of his ideal of a society, through understanding human behavior and logic, making it what he would deem a more realistic society. As humans we tend to care more about our individual needs prior to the needs of others. The values that we express reflect our own self-interest, where the good of the individual was the main concern and was not the same as that of the State. Plato saw this to be determinate to society based on the awareness that Guardians, such as civil leaders and assistants would care more about their individual desires, and their needs; disregarding anything else to fulfill their pleasures. "On this basis they will then be free from faction, to the extent tat any rate that human beings divide into factions over the possession of money, children, and relatives" (Stephanos 464e). Plato recognized this to create factions among individuals, where these divisions' main concerns were to themselves, their family, and to others that were close to them. Families create that...
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...household for the few months of growing season. At the same time we should strictly enforce the labor laws. No cheating. No paying substandard wages. No working people to their literal "death". No government turning a blind eye to mistreatment of workers. Speaking english well enough to answer a round of historical questions was a citizenship requirement for my mother in 1950 and as well for my friend from the Phillipines around 30 years ago. It's an important part of becoming a citizen -- people living in America must be able to understand simple things, read signs, etc.. Outside of becoming a citizen, it is very important for anyone coming the the United States to assimilate and accept local culture. This does not mean to suggest losing ethnic or cultural practices, rather, it means adhering to local customs and learning how people in the new community live, how they take care and function in the neighborhood and how they interact with each other. It means learning to obey traffic laws, littering laws, and civil law. These things are hard to get used to but they help people get along with each other. As a requirement of citizenship, keeping the criminal element out of the United States should be addressed. However, there are plenty of criminals who never get caught, plenty who get...
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...20/20 Vision – A recruiter who averages 20 points per processing week and 20 additional points per deployment week is considered to have “perfect vision”. This will be the standard. Approved Candidate Conditional Offer Bio Approval Packet Complete Attend Training BOG WPS 1 2 2 2 4 4 DoD 1 2 2 2 3 Candidate Reviews – 1 per 25 reviews. Minimum requirement - 1 hour per day. Referrals – 2 points for a validated referral Managers approve candidates and referrals. Priority requisitions receive double points. Potential bonus points – Issued by Sr. Manager / Sr. Director to recognize innovations and excellence. Examples – process improvement recommendations, social media presence, positive customer feedback, above and beyond duty, special project participation/completion, etc. End of day results reported to Supervisor/Manager. Supervisor/Manager validates point total with each recruiter during a daily performance review. I will install a MS Outlook email template on each recruiter’s laptop for easy reporting. Supervisor/Manager will report weekly results to the Sr. Manager. The Senior Manager will develop a MS Excel based management tool to consolidate the results and report to the Sr. Director NLT COB Monday of each week. Team results will be published at the Sr. Director’s discretion. The performance metrics will be used to document work ethic, identify potential training needs, and drive production. Processing week goal – 20 points. A processing week is defined...
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...Script for Negotiation Skill roleplay: Palace Characters : Everyone except the citizens Narrator speaking : Greeting, Social ethics. Servants and citizens : (looks hurried and worried). Hurry, she’s coming she’s coming. (They bow) *Sound effect : Horns blasting *Queen walks in and acts spoiled Queen : Good morning useless subjects. You look bad, you look ugly , you all look hopeless. (SITS DOWN) Guard 1 : Tengok sini, Tengok sini. Perhatian, sini ada satu pengumuman dari permaisuri kita yang cantik mulia anggun bergaya , berhati mulia, intan permata harum semerbak. Guard 2 : Setiap orang mesti memakai skirt termasuk lelaki. Sekian. *Sam looks meaningfully at guard 1 *Queen walks away amidsts crowd murmurs. Queen : No objections. Scene 2 : Citizens Revolution(Coupe D’etat) ( Market) -Queen visits market to see if citizens are wearing the skirt. Citizens Revolt. Narrator : *Queen walks in with guards who are wearing skirts. *Citizens bow *Servant walks in wearing pants Queen : I see someone not following my orders. Guards, take him. Chop chop ( Happy tone) *Guard 1 hauls Servant 1 and is about to execute him when the servants start revolting. Citizen 1 : That’s enough. Citizen 2 : Kita sudah cukup dan muak dengan ratu ini. Kawan-kawan , mari kita mulakan pentadbiran sendiri. *throws rubbish at her as guard looks on Scene 3 Queen wakes up in a bench in the park Citizen 1: Eh bukan itu queen ka? Mcm pengemis… Citizen 2: Don’t look don’t look ignore ja dia. After...
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...Compulsory National Service Compulsory national service has been a major debate topic for the past few years now. This means mandatory service would be required for all Americans graduating from high school today. There are pros and cons on both sides of the argument that hold weight and make valid points, but after doing the research and viewing both sides I have to agree that the pros outweigh the cons. Compulsory service will get our country back on its feet, and can bring unity to this wonderful country we call home, for that reason we need to act now and require a two year stint of national service. To begin, there are many Americans who are against compulsory national service they believe that it would impact teens from moving on to college after high school. Americans who are opposing mandatory service state that it would deter students who are looking to become a doctor, for example, because it would delay their studies. To become a doctor it takes many years of intense studying, and residencies that require working in a hospital alongside a licensed doctor. Delaying this would cause the individual to finish his or her studies later and life, and in turn could cause them to miss out on opportunities to progress to the top of their field of study. Not to mention compulsory service would cause the individual to miss out on possible income that could have been earned if he or she would have started two years earlier. On the contrary, implementing mandatory service would help...
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...Citizenship is a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized. Basically an inhabitant of a particular town or city. Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. These factors had the most impact and movement on slavery back then in the old ages. People were no longer to feel somewhat of agreeance in one side. There was a voice inside that was waiting to be set free from ones that felt entrapped by the commands of their owners, like there were some type of house pet or something. The people from around the world were amazed by this new sense of freedom including all ethnics, ages, and genders. This freedom was not just for people though,...
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...Based off of Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne’s “What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Education for Democracy”, I have mainly engaged in personally responsible citizenship and participatory citizen, with little, if any, justice oriented citizenship. Being a personally responsible citizen seems to me, to be the easiest form of citizenship to engage in. People do not have to go too far out of their way to donate a few cans to a food drive or obey laws. These acts are often even done without thinking (i.e. picking up trash or recycling). DU provides many opportunities to allow their students, staff, and surrounding community to participate in being a personally responsible citizen. They arrange blood drives once a quarter, offer recycling and...
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...Executive Summary This report describes the results of a series of six eight-hour dialogues with San Diego County residents on possible approaches to the future of air travel and San Diego’s airport. There are three parts to this summary, which cover methodology, general findings and implications for action for decision-makers committed to leading a public learning process in support of a long-term solution to the San Diego region’s air travel needs. Methodology These intense, day-long dialogues were sponsored by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (SDCRAA) and conducted in March and April 2004. They were designed to assess residents’ views about the current airport at Lindbergh Field as well as how their views evolved as they came to terms with the pros and cons of four possible ways of addressing the airport issue. Viewpoint Learning conducted six specialized “ChoiceWork Dialogues,” each one comprised of 35 to 45 participants randomly selected to be representative of the general population. The dialogues were explicitly not site-specific – rather they focused on what kind of airport citizens would like to see and what their top priorities are for air travel and the future of the region. The dialogues were designed with several purposes in mind: • To provide an in-depth understanding of what San Diegans’ values and priorities are regarding air travel, growth, transit, and the economy; • To inform the design of an airport solution (including the site...
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...American International Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 3 No. 8; August 2013 Toward a Functional Citizenship Education Curriculum in Nigerian Colleges of Education for Sustainable Development in the 21st Century Eyiuche Ifeoma Olibie, PhD Department of Educational Foundations Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria Lilian-Rita Akudolu, PhD Professor of Curriculum & Instruction and Commonwealth Fellow Department of Educational Foundations Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria Abstract This study was carried out to identify basic components of civic awareness, civic knowledge and civic dispositions needed by youths in two Colleges of Education in Anambra State of Nigeria as a basis for a functional Citizenship Education curriculum. Three hundred students were randomly selected from the two Colleges of Education in Anambra State. A 50-item questionnaire survey method was utilized based on five research questions. Findings indicated that in the perceptions of the students, it is ideal to incorporate several civic components, skills and dispositions into the citizenship education curriculum. Recommendations were made for revamping of the citizenship education curriculum in Colleges of Education in line with the identified civic components, skills and dispositions so as to ensure the establishment of education for sustainable development in the country. Keywords: Citizenship education, functional curriculum, sustainable development, teachers. Introduction Since the declaration...
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...One of the privileges I have is the privilege of citizenship. One of the ways I benefit from this privilege is that compared to the living conditions I fare are better than most illegal immigrants, which for the purpose of this paper I will shorten to ‘aliens’. I live in a house bought by my mother shortly after I was born, this had enabled me to live comfortably in a relatively secure neighborhood and go to nearby schools associated with the school district fixed to my location. I live in a house that is in good repair, not crowded, equipped with AC, a washer and dryer, and cable TV and internet service. I can cook meals in a kitchen with food stored in a refrigerator. I have household utilities like a coffee maker and microwave as well as oven and stove. I have a 46” LED HDTV from a name-brand, with a Blu-ray player. I own two computers; one is a high-spec desktop with two monitors and the other is a portable laptop. I own a smartphone equipped with a data plan and a tablet. Despite this, I am considered low-income by the federal government because of our annual income. For example, because of this defined status, I can receive a lumpy sum of grants that pay towards all of my tuition, while still leaving a plentiful amount in my bank account, all thanks to the educational system. All of these material possessions and utilities I enjoy because of the legality of my status are compared to an alien’s living conditions. As seen in the immigrant video seen in class, there are some...
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...opposed to the private, side of life. Conservatives, seeing it as a necessary evil, want the public thing to be as small as possible. Many of my fellow citizens share this point of view because, for them, government is just a bundle of services requiring a mandatory subscription fee in the form of taxes. They just want more services for less money, and, above all, a choice about what services to buy, and from whom. "Why should I pay taxes for public education when I can buy a better education for less money from a private school?" This is a sleight of hand, focusing our attention on the services aspect of government while conservatives and their big-business cronies manipulate rules and policies to further their own interests. Corporate interests benefit when citizens are uninvolved in their government. There are some functions that must be performed by government, for example, foreign affairs, national defense, maintaining a framework of laws. How much more than the minimum should government do? The decision could be based on: whether the government can perform a needed function more efficiently or effectively than private parties; whether we can achieve a more just and equitable result when government performs the function; whether we, collectively, want to undertake a project, as a nation, state or city. The first two are a classic trade-off: fairness versus efficiency. I'm not convinced that the private sector can do everything more efficiently...
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...Dalia Ugarte PA 311- Winter 2015 March 2015 Final Integrative Paper Assignment I’ll start off with a quote from Block and McKnight that we read in The Abundant Community, “it is one who chooses to create the life, the neighborhood, the world from their own gifts and the gifts of others.” Those are the acts of a Citizen in a community.” Now days we don’t go into the true meaning of what is means to be a Citizen in our communities. How many times do we have a conversation with our neighbors? How much time do we actual spend in our respective communities? For parents, do you know your children’s communities at school? What I’m getting to here is how much do we really spend connecting and building relationships within our communities? Like mentioned in Block and McKnight, we have turned into this world of consumers, the power that comes from within the community is diminishing because people are turning to products and services. Throughout this paper I’ll go into some essential elements that build and promote civic engagement. “Citizens create satisfaction by recognizing their individual capacities and skills. We begin to see that the neighborhood is a treasure chest” (Block & McKnight 2010). Citizens find gifts within a community, when we do this we start to realize the potential that lies within out communities. This ties directly with some main points in The Arts and Social Capital article we also read. “Whether visual, musical, dramatic, or literary, the arts allow...
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