...Introduction The days when businesses both large and small only think about their own interest are diminishing. In today’s business environment, many companies understand how society can affect the reputation, and profitability of the business. It is important to have an effective strategy that embraces a top-down approach to being proactive to environmental, compliance, and social issues in their business operations. In terms of XYZ Bank, the enterprise has a solid social responsibility strategy, but senior leadership should consider certain improvements in the areas of the planet, people, and profitability. Prompt A1 The banking industry is highly regulated, so banks have to be creative on how its products and practices effect the environment. XYZ Bank continuously looks for ways to improve upon how they serve their customers, while limiting their impact on the environment. One specific initiative that the bank shows their commitment to reducing pollution is through lending towards hybrid and electric vehicles for consumers [ (Bank of America Corporation, 2013) ]. While this helps in the efforts to help our customers and the environment, there is more we can do to show our dedication to reducing the number of gas driven vehicles. The United States Department of Energy mentions that driving range and recharge time are among the drawbacks in for electric vehicles [ (U.S. Department of Energy, 2014) ]. It is the recommendation that XYZ Bank invest in the infrastructure...
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...Prof. Cooper Social Change Paper Water Pollution Water Pollution is the Social issue that I have chosen because it is a drastic issue that is causing many problems for our world, especially for our natural environment. This issue is causing our natural environment to crumble beneath us. For example, our water is becoming tainted with numerous toxins and chemicals creating our local oceans and rivers to be in some cases unavailable for our use, like Picnic Island. Another reason why I chose this subject is that many individuals do not understand how important this issue really is until its too late. If I were able to create an Organization or Movement it would be called the Beautiful Water Right Movement. This movement would consist of protesting, making poster signs, meetings, fund raisers at a aquarium, and many other things to help support our natural environment. Aside from this movement the people I would have as core members to help assist this movement would be my family, friends, close relatives, and anyone else who would like to participate in this organization who is dedicated and willing to take the time and energy to help out with this issue. The audience that we should aim for is our society as a whole, as well as higher leveled politicians and maybe even the president. Along side of having our movement it would not only consist of people assisting, and fund raisers. Our movement includes...
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...of room the characters are in, the way it is decorated, and the amount and nature of its furnishings help us to interpret what is happening. They provide meaning for the actor’s and actresses’ actions and determine where they can walk, lean, or otherwise interact with props. For the play, the stage and scenery is the environment in which the story unfolds. The meaning of behaviour on the stage and what cab and cannot be done are determined by this environment. The theater would be far less entertaining or educational without the context provided by its environment. ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY: In real life, our behaviour also occurs in the context of an environment, one that is constantly changing and rich in information. Unlike the setting on a stage, however, it provides more than meaning. Our environment also provides us with basic needs for life, including food, water, and air to breathe. It is also modified by our actions, and is irrevocably altered whenever one of us changes it. Our environment includes all of our natural and built surroundings, and is delicately balanced system that can easily be bruised or damaged. Whenever we change some part of it, other parts also change, and these other changes may be unintended or even dangerous. Concerns about what we were doing to our environment reached unprecedented prominence in the 1960s and have continued to be an issue of serious concern as consequences of years of neglect has become apparent. The depletion of the ozone...
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...How Environment Plays Role In Learning College 100 American Military University There are a many different factors into why we learn the way we do. In a society where so many variables contribute and influence our day to interactions, how does the environment play a role in our learning? From living conditions, educational influence, social impacts and the forever perceived relevance of race, there are plenty of factors that help diagnose why our environment plays such a significant role in our learning abilities. So what are the effects of growing up in a privileged area versus an area of poverty? What’s the difference between having parents who have a higher degree in learning versus parents who didn’t even graduate high school? How do the crowds students hang out with affect dedication to learn and seek a higher level? We will discuss all if this and more. Studies have shown that individuals growing up in areas have poverty suffer from several risk factors that can inhibit their ability to learn. Kids growing up in less than adequate living conditions also face socioeconomic issues mainly because they do not relate to a majority of the other kids they deal on a day to day basis. According to Eric Jensen, there are four major contributing factors that kids living in poverty deal with, explained as EACH. These steps include; emotional and social challenges, acute and chronic Stressors, cognitive lags and safety Issues. Dealing with these issues can be a major problem...
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...Essay-How the ISLLC standards pertain to leadership behavior at my site. Jeanette Noriega Grand Canyon University, ED 534 February 25, 2014 Individual Reflection Essay-How the ISLLC standards pertain to leadership behavior at my site. Three major challenges facing the leadership at my cite and the ISLLC standards they reflect and the proposed possible solutions based on the standards. 1. Appropriate staffing numbers. One major challenge we are facing at my cite is not having appropriate staffing numbers. We have really high numbers, our class size averages are 35-40 students. We need more teachers, but lack funds to hire any. This reflects on Standard 3, obtain, allocate, align, and efficiently utilize human, fiscal, and technological resources (ISLLC 3.B, 2008). One solution that is already taking into effect is we are currently changing to a targeted title one school. With this taking into place we are hoping to get funding to hire more teachers or specials to help out with these high numbers. 2. Intervention for our struggling students. Another challenge is the lack of intervention for our struggling students. Our student population comes from very diverse socioeconomic status and demographics. We have students in the lower spectrum who are reading at 2nd grade reading level and are struggling in math compared to students in the higher spectrum who are in the gifted program and honor academy. The district gives a lot of support to the gifted academy but we lack...
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...REPORT: Social Enterprise- An Introduction by Ken Stratford This book by Ken Stratford, the author of the book Social Enterprise- An Introduction, is a book that open the eyes and introduce what Social Entrepreneurship is all about. Social enterprise combines the interests of shareholders and the entrepreneurs with the society’s disease which is poverty. Helping the poor and unprivileged people who need the help of other people in order to survive and have a better or decent way of living. The society’s diseases are brought by the environmental degradation and climate change. Social media was used to market or to communicate with other people who are willing to help those who are in need. By using social media,...
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...problems come at a time of unprecedented environmental concerns, from the local to global level. At the beginning of the modern era—in A.D. 1—the number of people in the world was probably about 100 million, one-third of the present population of the United States. In 1960 the world contained 3 billion people. Our population has more than doubled in the last 40 years, to 6.8 billion people today. In the United States, population increase is often apparent when we travel. Urban traffic snarls, long lines to enter national parks, and difficulty getting tickets to popular attractions are all symptoms of a growing population. If recent human population growth rates continue, our numbers could reach 9.4 billion by 2050. The problem is that the Earth has not grown any larger, and the abundance of its resources has not increased—in many cases, quite the opposite. How, then, can Earth sustain all these people? And what is the maximum number of people that could live on Earth, not just for a short time but sustained over a long period? Estimates of how many people the planet can support range from 2.5 billion to 40 billion (a population not possible with today's technology). Why do the estimates vary so widely? Because the answer depends on what quality of life people are willing to accept. Beyond a threshold world population of about 4–6 billion, the quality of life...
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...business?” How can business be a force for good by addressing the problems associated with the environmental crisis? In answering this question, be sure to draw from chapter 10, the Anderson video, and 3 additional outside sources. Going Green or going home. Business throughout the world has evolved since the first traders used to barter for goods. Today we keep in mind the ever changing global economy, and how it has effected our environment as a whole. In this paper we will be looking at different characteristics of a “green business” or in other words, “sustainable business”. How businesses can be a force of good by addressing some problems associated with environmental issues of our world as we see it today. Also we will be drawing and interpreting some additional sources that will further support as well as debate our “green business” characteristics. Lets start by stating there is a difference between “green business” and a “sustainable business”. A sustainable business is not necessarily green. You can have a company who makes many profits and has many millions of dollars invested into it, but they could be doing absolutely no environmentally friendly to help the world. Just because they could be considered a successful company, does not mean that they have reached the level that they are at today by doing things completely environmentally friendly. On the other hand the term “green business” truly expresses the terminology that the business no matter how big or small...
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...Administrators will know… | Administrators will be able to… | Administrators will understand that… | | School culture | Advocate for a school culture that will produce successful school learning and staff professional growth.(ISLLC 2008:2.A; ELCC 2.1) | A positive school culture in which every individual feels valued is necessary to achieve success. | What is the culture of the school, and how can it be affected in a positive direction? | Instructional programs | Create and nurture effective instructional programs that will promote personalized learning throughout the educational environment.(ISLLC 2008: 2.B, 2.C; ELCC 2.2) | To build capacity the instructional and leadership capacity of the staff has to be continuously developed. | What professional development is relevant to strengthening instructional programs? | Student learning | Sustain an environment of student learning that maximizes instructional time.(ISLLC 2008: 2.D, 2.G; ELCC 2.3) | Differentiation of instruction is vital to creating strong instructional programs that lead to student achievement. | How can we organize an environment so that success is promoted for all students? | Professional development | Promote and develop the instructional and leadership staff through using appropriate technologies that support teaching and learning.(ISLLC 2008: 2.F, 2.H; ELCC 2.4) | | What programs are in place to assess student learning and quality of instruction? | ISLLC 2008 Standard 4: An education leader promotes...
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...students develop skills that help them interpret and adapt to a changing world. The ability to teach skills such as reading, writing, and problem solving, and then apply them to situations in my students’ everyday lives is crucial. Teachers who encourage students to reflect on what they’ve learned and incorporate those skills into their lives develop their students’ critical literacy. And, with this ability to interpret the world around them, students begin to adapt and succeed in a changing world. The student’s journey into literacy begins with a teacher. Social Reconstructionism was founded by Theodore Brameld, in reaction against the realities of World War II. He recognized the potential for either human annihilation through technology and human cruelty or the capacity to create a beneficent society using technology and human compassion. George Counts recognized that education was the means of preparing people for creating this new social order. Social Reconstructionism emphasizes the addressing of social questions and a quest to create a better society and worldwide democracy. Social Reconstructionist educators focus on a curriculum that highlights social reform as the aim of education. For Social Reconstructionist’s, curriculum focuses on student experience and taking social action on real problems, such as violence, hunger, international terrorism, inflation, and inequality. Strategies for dealing with controversial issues (particularly in social studies and literature),...
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...refer to how the environment stays productive and healthy, but also how our economic and social systems should as well. But what exactly is sustainability? Perry and Eweje (2011) explain in their book, Business and Sustainability: Concepts, Strategies and Changes, “Sustainability consists of actions that extend the socially useful life of organizations, enhance the planet’s ability to maintain and renew the biosphere and protect all living species, enhance society’s ability to solve its major problems, and maintain a decent level of welfare and personal freedom for, present and future generations of humanity” (p. 9). This is a very loaded definition of the word, but to put it simply, sustainability refers to the actions that humans can take that will ensure the health and wellness of our economic, social, and environmental communities. At such a tumultuous time in human history, achieving sustainability has never been more difficult, or more necessary. Our carbon emissions are destroying the planet, many people around the world live and work in unjust environments, and economic troubles have affected billions of people. There are ways to fix these problems, however. Not any one organization or government is responsible for this shift, we all have a duty to create sustainable systems that will ensure our own and future humanity’s survival and prosperity. In this paper, I will be discussing the three main pillars of sustainability (economic, social, and environmental) and how they...
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...Ethics' A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the business or organization, how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ethical principles based on the organization's core values and the standards to which the professional will be held. A guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly and with integrity. A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the business or organization, how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ethical principles based on the organization's core values and the standards to which the professional will be held. Corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR, also called corporate conscience, corporate citizenship or responsible business) is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. “By Mallen Baker” One of the most frequently asked questions at this site - and probably for all those individuals and organizations dealing with CSR issues is the obvious - just what does 'Corporate Social Responsibility' mean anyway? Is it a stalking horse for an anti-corporate agenda? Something which, like original sin, you can never escape? Or what? Different organizations have framed different definitions - although there is considerable common ground between them. My own definition is that CSR is about how companies manage the business processes to produce an overall positive impact on society. Ethical code...
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...have to think about social and environmental dimensions. As the society mature, customers demand more than just the products or services, but the impact to the social and environmental. Krueger (2005) argue that consumers as we look as an organisation members channelled their intention to consume through their environment and this intention will be converted action. As an entrepreneur we can convert this environmental and social impact issue to opportunities. We like the idea of sustainable entrepreneurship can be seen as the process of sustaining a level of entrepreneurial development as to create a paradigm shift in economic activity such that national GDP, job growth, capital investment, technology advancement, and quality of life is unmatched, unsurpassed and unequalled. In my venture, sustainability values that I will adopt is social entrepreneur, as I try to match my value as philanthropist and giving back to the society is the image and branding of my ventures. As an entrepreneurship centre among the agenda is to train new and existing entrepreneur by using all knowledge that the expertise in this centre have. Our intention is to create knowledgeable entrepreneurs that have alertness on global issues. This is because traditional or conventional entrepreneurs only see the dollar and cents as the bottom line of every business without thinking the impact to the society and environment. This centre will also practice green technology concept as we will interact more...
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...trade, to the industrial revolution down to our current time. And each era was dominated by a particular pattern or a way of doing business, as we evolved so did our awareness to our surrounding and how we affect it so companies and corporation all around the world started to care not purely on profit for their shareholders but how they effected the population the environment the culture as a hall, which in its turn led to what is currently known as “social economy” (1). The social economy phenomena created two types of corporation, first the social kind which are either non-profit or for profit and the goal of their corporations is to improve humanity as much as possible and to help sustain a clean and healthy environment even if this goal overlaps with the goal of making as much profit as possible. ‘Many commercial enterprises would consider themselves to have social objectives, but commitment to these objectives is motivated by the perception that such commitment will ultimately make the enterprise more financially valuable. Social enterprises differ in that, inversely, they do not aim to offer any benefit to their investors, except where they believe that doing so will ultimately further their capacity to realize their social and environmental goals’. Historically the concept of social enterprises has been around for some time now under different names and different tendencies. The earliest use of the social enterprise concept was in 1978 England in “Beechwood...
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...Introduction To Corporate Social Responsibility Management Essay Organizations always have an important Role in the lives of the society in which it is operating especially when the business is growing and thinking about globalization. Organization’s performance and production is linked with enviourment, social, cultural and governmental variables. When an organization operates its operations in a particular community, due to the business processes there are some responsibilities to the organization. 1.1 Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility In general term CSR refers to: ‘The comprehensive approach which organization takes to meet the expectation of stakeholders by putting away such measures as revenues, profit and legal obligations. Community development, welfare, human rights and ethical conduct are key factors which come under the CSR umbrella’ (Laurie J. Mullins). I would like to discuss the CSR issues in Aviation Industry that’s why I have chosen Air France-KLM and Ryanair. 1.2 Air France-KLM Overview: Air France and KLM merged together in 2004 to form Air France-KLM Group while both airlines operate individually to retain their brands and identity (Air France-KLM CSR Report 2010). Air France was elected best airline of the year 2010 in Business Travel Awards (The Financial). Air France-KLM is the only airline which is selected in Dow Jones Sustainability Index in 2008.This group is the biggest in the whole world according to their profit growth which is €24...
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