Summary: Corporate Social Responsibility

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• Coperate culture

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• What are underlying values

  These are also invisible aspects of the organisation. Another one are underlying values  such as what do employees define as success or when you see sales are higher than the competitors they are successful.

• Explain the difference between sociability and Solidarity

  Sociability (friendliness) is social relations are used to achieve goals > university department
  
  Solidarity (union, fellowship) a very task oriented way to achieve goals > accountant/lawyers

• Explain why corporate culture is important

  • Humans feel the need to fit into group norms, avoid unpleasant personal consequences.
    
  • Individual employers unidentify most closely with colleagues in the immediate working environment (the bigger organisation the more distance)
    

• Name the 4 types or corporate culture 

  1. Anarchic
     
  2. Dictatorial
  3. Bureaucratic
  4. Democratic

• Explain a anarchic corporate culture

  • Informal appearance
    
  • Charismatic leadership
  • Anti-bureaucratic
  • High-level of commitment to work

  
  Google or other design led organisation

• Explain a Dictatorial corporate culture

  • Values of dominant individual or group
    
  • Formalised structure
  • Limited amount of delegation

  
  
  Police, navy or familiy-owned companies

• Explain a Bureaucratic corporate culture

  • Rules based
    
  • Rigid hierarchal structures
  • Risk averse

  
  
  Government organisations

• Ethical behavior

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• Explain the difference between ethics and law

  Unlike ethics the law is written down. Ethics is sort of like good governance meaning its not written down anywhere but everyone follows it.

• Name + explain 2 types of organisations and their socialisation processes in a organisation

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  1. Ethical organisations: these socialisation processes reinforce the message of ethical activity + the individual accepts the group norms of moral behaviour.
  2. Dysfunctional organisations: the socialisation process can perpetuate unethical or corrupt behaviour.

• Name + explain the 3 socialisation techniques whereby employees start to accept dysfunctional + unethical behaviour.

  
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  1. Co-option: people learn to adapt the same behaviour/ values as the company by use of rewards —> situations often encourage individuals to resolve moral ambiguities in a way that benefits them either financially or trough enhanced prestige.
     
  2. Incrementalism: When people learn slowly to adapt  " bad behaviour" —> They become shocked as how it got that far because they firstly would disassociate themselves with this unethical behaviour.
     
  3. Compromise: You start to compromise things; i can/can't get away with this —> they carry out these corrupt act because they are seeking a solution to some problem/dilemma