May 11, 2012 Company Q is a small company. Many companies are faced with the dilemma of how to be socially responsible. “Social responsibility is defined as a modern philosophy that states that all individuals and organizations are obligated to help the community.” Kung. www.ehow.com Due to profit loss, Company Q had to close a couple of their stores in higher crime rate neighborhoods and lay off workers. The dilemma with businesses is how to be socially responsible yet maintain a profitable
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own interests and the interests of others. We first need to be responsible for ourselves before we can be responsible for others. In learning to be more responsible it is important that we know our limitations. It does not matter how smart we are, there is only so much responsibility that a person can handle. It is also important to remember that we are not responsible for things that are out of our control, for example, how other people feel or how they react to ourselves or others. Sharing responsibility
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case of Company Q being asked to donate day-old food to a local food bank, it denied their request. A socially responsible company is not completely concerned with maximizing their profits, but they understand that the people they serve are just as important as making a profit. The company thought that they would lose revenue due to the possibility that their employees might steal food under the guise of them donating it, and therefore the company decided to not donate any food to the food bank. Part
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Chaffee, N. (1988). THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ACCOUNTANTS IN TODAY'S SOCIETY. Journal of Corporation Law, 14(3), 863. I chose this resource to have one of many points of comparison between current accounting responsibilities and older responsibilities. If I am correct, there should be notable differences in responsibilities. Davis, S., DeZoort, F. T., & Kopp, L. S. (2006). The Effect of Obedience Pressure and Perceived Responsibility on Management Accountants' Creation of Budgetary Slack
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Personal Responsibility Julie Jacobs University of Phoenix Personal Responsibility Image a life without structure. A life without rules. Now Image a life with total chaos. If we spend as much time working on ourselves as we do critiquing other, we can all live a simpler live. Let me be the one to say I am not perfect and I make mistakes, but I am a woman enough to admit it. Being able to own up your flaws is part of becoming a responsible adult. Life is what we make it, so the sooner we
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Responsible Me DeAndre D. Benson Gen/200 March 20, 2014 Judy Olson-Hammer Responsible Me The vast majority of the hurdles that exist in my life are existent due to the commitments that I have accepted. I committed to being a stable partner to my wife, to being a dedicated father, to display a good amount of volunteerism, and to uphold strong religious values. These standards bring challenges that require the use of appropriate time management, commitment, determination
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• Do information media have social responsibility? If yes, in what ways? If no, why not? Yes, I think information media does or at least should have social responsibility. Generally, people rely on these types of media for information about all kinds of things. Politics, crime, natural disasters, and news in general. If an information media source inaccurately reports information, then the public is left with false information that they may perceive as truth. This could lead to issues, such as
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concerned with social responsibility in its overall corporate strategy? Starbucks achieved social responsibility by taking steps to follow guidelines, minimize its environmental “footprint”, and became involved with the community. This is important to the company because ethical companies do better in the long run. Customers feel good about bringing business to social responsible companies and employees feel good about working there and in turn employees provide better customer service.
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its shareholders it must at least adopt a pseudo-stakeholder theory of operation representing social responsibility although it has no moral responsibility to be socially responsible. To facilitate this argument, I will use the definitions of those terms as presented by the authors in the book. The stockholders invested their money for the purpose of earning a return on that investment in the form of more money, not in the form of social and moral gratitude from every stakeholder involved with the
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Personal Responsibility Equals Ultimate Success Personal responsibility to me is the freedom to choose what I am going to do and how I am going to do it. It is my responsibility to decide in what ways I want my life, career and schooling to flourish. No one can tell me what to do or how to do it; it is up to me to make that determination. There will be times when someone may put up a roadblock, however it is up to me to decide whether or not I am going to let that roadblock stop my success or
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