What is the relationship between social responsibility and organizational success and profitability?
  • Corporate social responsibility is a broad concept. Explain the dimensions of social responsibility. What actions should organizations take to maximize each dimension of social responsibility?
  • What is the relationship between social responsibility and organizational success and profitability? What evidence can you provide to support your position?
  • There are several potential ethical issues related to marketing strategies. Identify a recent ethical dilemma facing a marketing organization. Describe the ethical situation and the consequences for the organization, its customers, and its other stakeholders. How could the ethical dilemma be avoided?
  • Many organizations have a code of ethical conduct. Find an organization’s code of ethics and assess the code’s ability to enhance ethical decision-making within its organization. What revisions do you propose for the organization’s code of ethics?
  • Considering the many factors that may influence consumer brand preferences, how important is it for a brand to be recognized for social responsibility? How can we formulate the return on investment for CSR?
What is green marketing?
  • What is green marketing?
  • How does it relate to corporate social responsibility (CRS) and marketing ethics?
  • Provide an analysis of a company that is practicing and promoting green marketing. Are they successful in their efforts? Why or why not?
What factors influence the quality of education that an individual receives?

According to conflict theorists, the persistence of social class inequality can be linked to the educational institutions in the United States. Although education is asserted to be a social equalizer, many argue that the educational system is a mechanism of social reproduction that maintains social inequality rather than ensuring equality of opportunity. For this discussion, you will read Chapters 10 and 11 of the text, Sociology: Beyond Common Sense, and review the article, Foundations of Educational Inequality.

Answer the following questions:

  • What factors influence the quality of education that an individual receives?
  • How is social class reproduced through the educational system?
  • How is this continuing educational inequality impacting other social institutions?
Is the National Labor Relations Act as important now as it was?

The National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935.  In 1944, 35% of the workforce were members of an organized union.  In 2016, private-sector workers (those workers not in the government, schools, etc) only had 6.4% participation in unions.

What do you think are the reasons?
Has the culture changed?
Is the National Labor Relations Act as important now as it was?
Are the reasons for unionization not as valid and they were?
If that is the case, why are 34.4% of public sector employees unionized today?

Discuss the need to study an entire set of financial statements rather than focus in obsessively on one or two numbers such as net income.

Prompt: Discuss the need to study an entire set of financial statements rather than focus in obsessively on one or two numbers such as net income.

Exercise Instructions:  You are required to submit a 2-Page (Title Page and Content Page), APA formatted with substantial content. Substantial content requires staying on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. The deliverable length of your posting responses must be at least 2-pages, (Title Page and Content Page) APA format.

Define “gains” and “losses” and explain how they differ from “revenues” and “expenses”.

Define “gains” and “losses” and explain how they differ from “revenues” and “expenses”.

Discussion Instructions (Initial Post is Require before “Viewing” Peer Posts):  You are required to submit a substantial response. A substantial response is one that stays on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner.  Substantial Content refers to providing relevant content toward the actual topic of the discussions. This includes quality input, questions and information in your discussion posts and responses to peers.

The deliverable length of initial posting must be at least 150 words.  After the initial posting, students are required to respond to at least two (2) peers responses