Social Responsibility in business Organization

Essay by feiyeeUniversity, Bachelor'sA-, December 2004

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Definition of business organization

Business organization is an organization that provides good or services in order to earn profit. Indeed, the prospect of earning profit is the different between a business's revenues and its expenses that is what encourages people to open and to expand business. The principal purpose of a company is not to make a profit. It is to make a profit in order to continue to do things or make things, and to do so ever better and more abundantly. To say that profit is a means to other ends and not an end and semantic quibble, it is a serious moral point. A requirement is not a purpose. In everyday life those who make the means into ends are usually called neurotic or obsessive. We have to eat to live, but if we live to eat we become distorted in more senses than one. In ethics, to make the means for the ends is to be turned in on oneself, one of the worst sins.

So, in my opinion, business organization in today's society cannot avoid defining some socially responsible role for itself.

Definition of social responsibility

Social responsibility is the managerial obligation to take action that protects and improves both the welfare of society as a whole and interests of the organization means, not an end. We have sought to demonstrate social responsibility ourselves, and hope through education to inspire other businesses and organizations to examine social responsibility. Business organizations operate in a context that is much broader than just their immediate marketplace. Their activities have social, economic and political consequences whose impact may be felt on a local, national or even international scale. Even small, local businesses have a large social impact collectively. Stakeholders - customers, suppliers, employees, the local community; in fact...