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Originally Posted by willravel
I need to chastise your business teacher.
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Feel free, though I highly suspect that he is long since retired. My observations are taken from years of experience in the actual business world, where actual business takes place, as opposed to the classroom, where only theories as concepts are examined.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Corporate social responsibility suggests that organizations should consider the interests of customers, employees, shareholders, communities, and ecological issues in every decision they make. As such, the obligation extends beyond legality and profit. Any and every organization that is run by moral people should always have these considerations.
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You seem to hold some very lofty ideals of what the corporate world
should be, and I'm not saying that you're wrong. What I
am saying is that the "
real" world is a very different place than the Utopia that you imagine.
Business is in business to make money. Period. Every dollar spent has to realize a value. If not directly to the bottom line, then to public relations. You, for example, are far more likely to buy your widget from a company that puts a few dollars into...say the environment, than you are from a company that doesn't. If there are enough people of your mindset, then it becomes advantageous for a widget company to spend those environmental dollars. There is a monetary value gained. Ethics can be relative...dollars are not.