Corporate social responsibility

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Because society is fundamentally based upon performance and profit, it is not unusual to find that it is necessary to impart a sense of corporate social responsibility with regard to contemporary commerce. The ethical approaches of purpose, principle and consequence are integral components of business social performance; itemizing these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concepts that are often absent from a managerial …

…other corporate constituents) than are ethics policies justified in noninstrumental terms. The compelling evidence is that instrumental ethics is hard to carry out in a corporate setting (see Jones, In press). First, ethics is hard to fake. People are adept at detecting attempts at deception (DePaulo, Zuckerman, & Rosenthal, 1980; Frank, 1988). Once people detect faking, they are likely to adopt similar behavior (Jones, In press). As employees look to executive-level managers for their moral cues (Trevino & Y