Corporate Social Responsibility course name

wk7 discussion 1

Common good in the social domain is well known and understood. Define the limits of the principle of commonality in regards to individuals, government, and corporations. Also, provide a rationale for your answer.

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wk8 discussion1

Discussion Question 1 – Summary & Critical Thinking – Week/Course Learning Outcomes

Welcome to the last week of your course. In this discussion question you have the opportunity to be creative and to relate what you have learned to your professional lives. Please explore and critically think about some of the learning outcomes and concepts presented in this course. Please effectively communicate how you would lead an organization (or a group of people within the organization) by applying the knowledge you have learned ethically and responsibly. Your discussion should also include innovative thinking, and information-technology aspects (such as the Internet, social-media, computers, etc.) that may assist you in decision-making. You may frame your discussion around any functional component of business, and in any context; problem-solving, management, leadership, organizational behavior, etc

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cla2

CLA 2 Comprehensive Learning Assessment 2 – CLO 5, CLO 6, CLO 7

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.

CSR policy functions as a self-regulatory mechanism whereby a business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and national or international norms. With some models, a firm’s implementation of CSR goes beyond compliance and engages in “actions that appear to further some social good, beyond the interests of the firm and that which is required by law.” The aim is to increase long-term profits and shareholder trust through positive public relations and high ethical standards to reduce business and legal risk by taking responsibility for corporate actions. CSR strategies encourage the company to make a positive impact on the environment and stakeholders including consumers, employees, investors, communities, and others.

Every year, Reputation Institute, a private global consulting firm based in New York, invites about 47,000 consumers, across fifteen markets, to participate in a study that ranks the world’s one hundred most reputable companies—all multinational businesses with a global presence. One of their recent studies found that 42 percent of how people feel about a company is based on their perceptions of the firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR).

The student’s Task:

1. Select a company (domestic or international) that will be the basis for your research.

2. Research the company’s record in the area of CSR. Be sure to look at both their domestic and as well as international reputation.

3. A good place to begin your research is the LibGuide at Rutgers University: http://libguides.rutgers.edu/csr

4. Complete a written assignment that contains the following information:

a) A summary of the business you selected.

b) According to your research, how does the company rank with regard to CSR?

 Be sure to provide a source for this ranking.

c) Describe specific examples of corporate actions that resulted in this company’s ranking.

d) Does a company’s approach to CSR influence your purchasing decisions? Why or why not?

DO NOT write your paper as a series of answers to these questions. This assignment should follow the written assignment guidelines for the course. Be sure to include APA formatted in-text citations of peer-reviewed or other sources you used for your research. 

CLA 2 measures the student’s competency and mastery of the course concepts, particularly the application of those concepts.

Your CLA2 submission (cumulative report) should be 8 to 10 pages in length. The CLA assignments encompass the learning objectives for this course and are designed to increase your comprehension and augment your ability to apply concepts learned in your professional careers. Subsequently, in addition to your report, please prepare a professional PowerPoint presentation summarizing your findings for CLA1 and CLA2. The presentation will consist of your company’s CSR initiative, sustainability and action plan, and recommendations for leadership in a concise 18 slide presentation. You should use content from your report at material for your PowerPoint presentation.

*Please refer to the Grading Criteria for Comprehensive Learning Assessments (CLAs) on page 9-10 of the syllabus for specific guidelines and expectations.

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CLA2 Comprehensive Learning Assessment (CLA 2) Presentation

In addition to your CLA2 report, please prepare a professional PowerPoint presentation summarizing your findings for CLA2. The presentation will consist of your major findings, analysis, and recommendations in a concise presentation of 18 slides (minimum). You should use content from your CLA2 report as material for your PowerPoint presentation. In addition, you should include learning outcomes from all your major assignments. This would include PA1, CLA1, PA2, and of course, CLA2 (unless otherwise specified by your Professor). An agenda, executive summary, and references slides should also be included. Please keep in mind that the university is moving towards a more digital footprint for our students. This means that your final CLA2 presentation may be recorded, so that you may include it in your “e-portfolio” (graduating students should have all of their CLA2 presentations on a flash-drive, in addition to student biography, resume, interests, etc.) Students will present their PowerPoint during the last week of class in either the On-Campus Class Session or the online Virtual Class Session, as determined by the professor. Presentations should not exceed 18 minutes.

*Please refer to the Grading Criteria for CLA2 Presentations on page 11-12 of the syllabus for specific guidelines and expectations.

topic

The topics that are intended to be used in CLA 2 Assignment and the final paper will be molded in a way as to include as many concepts as possible to add in it from the course modules. Some important concepts that are to be added in this paper are enlisted hereunder.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Impact of Flawed Business Strategies on CSR initiatives

Future of business leaders in context of capitalism.

Aforementioned three points are very broad and wide. In order to cover these topics, a number of sun-heads will be generated. It will be sought to come up with one concrete definition of CSR. A particular framework for CSR shall be constructed and all the initiatives discussed will be done in the same paradigm. Moreover, it will also be discussed how leadership is evolving day by day. The need for changing and adapting to various changes will be discussed.

These aspects of the topics mentioned above will be analyzed.

Why there is a need for growing and expanding CSR initiatives?

Which CSR initiatives are met with the most confidence by the communities? (Risi, 2016).

How business leaders of the future will change the course of actions happening now.

What is the best way to make a business pursue an ethical course of action.

Reference

Risi, D. (2016). Longitudinal comparison between CSR implementation and CSR function’s resource access. Academy Of Management Proceedings, 2016(1), 10138. DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2016.69

You were talking to members of your favorite local band after a recent show. The topic of software came up, and the leader said she has a love-hate relationship with it. She loves the recording software they use, and is okay with QuickBooks for the band’s financial records. But, she does not like the available options to track bookings and create set lists that draw from their entire repertoire. 

In addition to their regular weekly gigs, the band performs for many school assemblies and community events. They have to pick music that’s appropriate for the audience and the theme without being repetitive. They are constantly adding new songs to their catalog, and putting others on hiatus.  The band likes to take requests, so they frequently update the set list after a gig. The band does not want to bother entering chords or lyrics because they don’t use computers or phones on stage.  

You offer to put together a system design to address the band’s needs. It’s okay to collect ideas by looking at off-the-shelf solutions, but the design must be your own for this assignment.  Include the following in your design: 

1. A list and short explanation of each function to manage: 
2.  the band’s song catalog, 
3. bookings, 
4. set lists, and 
5. any other category you believe is important for this application. 
6. A logical data design that supports all of these functions. Use either an entity-relationship or a UML class diagram, which should be in third normal form. Indicate all primary keys, relationships, and cardinalities. 
7. Recommend a system architecture that identifies the hardware and software components and how they interact. Include a short (not more than 500 words) description and rationale. Illustrate using your choice of a static functional decomposition or object-oriented diagram. 
8. Identify security concerns and other nonfunctional requirements for this system. 
9. Propose at least three distinct and measurable criteria to evaluate the quality of the finished software. 

introduced the impact of the global digital divide. According to the authors, countries that lag behind the rest of the world’s ICT capabilities encounter difficulties at various levels. Discuss specific areas, both within and outside, eGovernance, in which citizens living in a country that lags behind the rest of the world in ICT capacity are lacking. Include in your discussion quality of life, sustainability, safety, affluence, and any other areas that you find of interest. Use at least 8-10 sentences to discuss this topic.

 Class – Please review Chapter 5: ERM in Practice at the University of California Health System Case and provide response for following questions.

1. Your medical group wants to expand by starting a new venture, owning and operating a pharmacy. In order to increase the chances for success, you have been asked to perform an enterprise risk assessment that includes reputational risk. Give three examples of how starting a new venture might have risk events that could lead to repercussions that would negatively impact the organization’s reputation and three examples where it might be enhanced, creating opportunity.

2. Explain how improvement is measured with KPIs and give one example related to Human Capital and how this KPI might help you improve your organization.

3. What do you think is the difference between traditional risk management and enterprise risk management?

You are required to respond to the questions thoroughly, in 500 -to-800 words for each question. Be sure to include at least 4 reference sources. APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed.
 

1. What’s an attribute? What’s a data instance?

1. What’s      noise? How can noise be reduced in a dataset?
2. Define      outlier. Describe 2 different approaches to detect outliers in a dataset.
3. Describe      3 different techniques to deal with missing values in a dataset. Explain      when each of these techniques would be most appropriate.
4. Given      a sample dataset with missing values, apply an appropriate technique to      deal with them.
5. Give 2      examples in which aggregation is useful.
6. Given      a sample dataset, apply aggregation of data values.
7. What’s      sampling?
8. What’s      simple random sampling? Is it possible to sample data instances using a      distribution different from the uniform distribution? If so, give an      example of a probability distribution of the data instances that is      different from uniform (i.e., equal probability).
9. What’s      stratified sampling?
10. What’s      “the curse of dimensionality”?
11. Provide      a brief description of what Principal Components Analysis (PCA) does.      [Hint: See Appendix A and your lecture notes.] State what’s the input and      what the output of PCA is.
12. What’s      the difference between dimensionality reduction and feature selection?
13. Describe      in detail 2 different techniques for feature selection.
14. Given      a sample dataset (represented by a set of attributes, a correlation      matrix, a co-variance matrix, …), apply feature selection techniques to      select the best attributes to keep (or equivalently, the best attributes      to remove).
15. What’s      the difference between feature selection and feature extraction?
16. Give      two examples of data in which feature extraction would be useful.
17. Given a      sample dataset, apply feature extraction.
18. What’s      data discretization and when is it needed?
19. What’s      the difference between supervised and unsupervised discretization?

1. Given      a sample dataset, apply unsupervised (e.g., equal width, equal frequency)      discretization, or supervised discretization (e.g., using entropy).
2. Describe      2 approaches to handle nominal attributes with too many values.
3. Given      a dataset, apply variable transformation: Either a simple given function,      normalization, or standardization.
4. Definition      of Correlation and Covariance, and how to use them in data pre-processing      (see pp. 76-78).