Week 1 Friday Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) TGIF Jiaxin Xu (Samantha) February 24, 2017

Metalanguage game + Transitions Agenda CSR discussions Metalanguage game + Transitions

CSR warm-up discussion In a pair or group of 3 Use your own words to define corporate social responsibility (CSR) Have one person take out the phone and type out the definition at this web link: PollEv.com/samanthaxu440 (case-sensitive, P and E are capital letters) Social responsibility: actions companies take to benefit the shareholders, community, and environment in and out of their operating process.

share your examples and write them out on an A3 paper. Share CSR Examples In a group of 5. share your examples and write them out on an A3 paper.

CSR can be divided into 7 categories CSR 7 Categories CSR can be divided into 7 categories Read the 7 category handout (8 min) Definition of each category A relevant example in that category

Refer to your group’s own examples Discussion Refer to your group’s own examples match each example with a corresponding category One example may suit in 2 different categories

Share Examples 1. Organizational governance: Follow laws to manage and operate the business E.g. (counter example)companies such as Enron falsely report their profits on financial reports to the public and cause financial losses of shareholders (fraud) E.g. Companies not following laws:

Share Examples 2. Labor practices: Treat employees responsibly and fairly E.g. Google (silicon valley, California) builds creative working space for workers. For example, they build sleeping boxes on walls. They also provide a creative game center for employees. Walmart provides low wages for employees. ($7.5 minimum wage/hour) E.g Microsoft is providing a comfortable working environemnt for examples. (e.g. shorter working hours)

Share Examples 3. Environment: Reduce impacts on environment and help save environment in and out of production process E.g. Tesla motors uses electric cars and reduce emissions of carbon and toxic substances. Hybrid cars (Toyota, Mercedez-benz, letv) E.g. Starbucks: C.A.F.E, practice guidelines, sustainable sourcing, process coffee (organic farms) E.g. Starbucks: use your own cup/mugs to purchase coffee products, you will get discount. Using recycled fiber in paper cups; E.g. bookstore uses paper bags to replace plastic bags E.g. Ant Forest app, on Alipay (alibaba), grow own tree, reach certain energy level, a real tree will be planted for you in reality.

Share Examples 4. Consumer issues: behave responsibly to customers, products and services E.g. Nissan- create a F1 (one of fixing rate) group to handle customers’ complaints

Share Examples 5. Community involvement and development: build relationship with local communities and create projects to benefit the community. E.g. Walmart donates up to 97 million RMB to children organizations (e.g. association of childhood obesity) Tom’s shoes, donate a pair of shoes to needed children for every pair sold Chairty work (help children, women, people in need)

Share Examples 6. *Fair operating practices: A company presents strong leadership and healthy working environment when healthy employee competition is promoted, and innovation is encouraged to help improve business performance E.g. Hitachi adheres to laws and regulations and promote the compliance of all employees in business activities, including procurement, manufacture, sales, export, and taxation. Following laws/ healthy working environemnt/ providing benefits/ research + development

Share Examples 7. *Human rights: use its influence to respect and support human rights, and thus encourage respect for human rights to spread through their organizational supply chains and local communities E.g. Microsoft has strived to increase online safety and promote freedom of expression and privacy. Safety, speech rights, treat ppl equally

Writing coursework Compare and asses 2 international companies’ performance in the category of “environment” for CSR Each group has to do the same 2 companies Each member will use library database to find 4 different articles Group members share information Write out a 1000-1200 word essay Week 2 (next week), a mini-project is a mini version of the writing coursework.

Metalanguage Game

Transitions worksheet

Homework Due Monday CSR introduction reading and comprehension questions Transitions worksheet Revise your essay. Focus on academic style, grammar, and transitions. Type the revised essay and submit it on ICE in the dropbox “air pollution essay_C03” *typing is an important skill for learning success in college.