Assignment 2 – 2000 words – 50%
Critically
discuss the extent to which businesses take Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
seriously.
Please
read and analyse the following 3 articles. Your answer, amongst other things, should draw from
the 3 articles below as well as refer to wider UK and international frameworks
for CSR. We
will also look at these articles during the course.
The
3 articles:
Asset
managers told to clean up greenwashing and net zero claims (Financial Times,
2022)
https://www.ft.com/content/f1367ab4-ac6f-486d-8bd2-e7659448055d
Volkswagen
and the Failure of Corporate Social Responsibility (Forbes, 2015)
The Truth
About CSR (Harvard Business Review, 2015)
https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr
(total 2000 words)
This
task addresses LOs 2, 3 and 4.
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LENGTH |
A
maximum of 2000 words
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FORMATTING AND LAYOUT |
Please
note the following when completing your written assignment:
1.
Writing: Written
in English in an appropriate business/academic style
2. Focus: Focus only on the tasks set in the
assignment.
3.
Document
format: Essay
4. Ensure a
clear title, course, and name or ID number is on a cover sheet and a
bibliography using Harvard referencing throughout is also provided.
5. Research: Research
should use reliable and relevant sources of information e.g. academic books and
journals that have been peer reviewed. The research should be extensive.
The
use of a range of information sources is expected – academic books, peer
reviewed journal articles, professional articles, press releases and newspaper
articles, reliable statistics, company annual reports and other company
information. All referencing should be in the Harvard style.