Instruction
Your CSR addendum should adhere to the following formatting requirements: 15-20 pages (not including title and reference pages),
double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. You should use a minimum of five scholarly sources. Use APA style guidelines for your
citations and reference list.
COMPANY IS NEW BALANCE. RUBRIC AND PREVIOUS PAPERS ARE ATTACHED.
The project is divided into four milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final
submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules One, Three, Five and Seven.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
• Analyze internal and external business environments for determining current trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and business ethics
• Align corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes with business ethics and regulations to optimize business sustainability
• Assess decision-making processes for their impact on internal and external stakeholders and corporate culture
• Evaluate personal and business ethics for their community and global impact through research of best practices in corporate culture and social
responsibility
• Align cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts with corporate mission, vision, and values to improve corporate exposure and profit
Prompt
Your final project should address the following question: How can the company discussed in your business plan prepare for and respond to trends in corporate
culture and social responsibility?
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Background Information
Concisely describe the company and business product, service, or other idea from the business plan you developed in MBA 560: Marketing and Strategy.
In your description, make sure that you include the target stakeholders and their relationship to the mission, vision, and values of the company.
II. Trends
A. Business Environment: Analyze the current internal and external factors related to the business environment of your company. In other words,
what are the internal and external factors, and how do they influence the business environment of your company?
B. Description: Based on your analysis of internal and external factors, describe the trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and
business ethics that will impact your business. Use CSR resources to support your response.
C. Impact: What will be the impact of these trends on your company, and how can your company prepare for the impact?
III. Ethics
A. Issues: Describe the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that could impact your business. How could these ethics and regulatory
issues affect your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes?
B. Alignment: How will you align your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory
issues that you described?
C. Sustainability: How will the alignment of corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and
regulatory issues you described optimize the sustainability of your business?
IV. Decision Making
A. Decisions: Based on the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that you previously described, what are the business decisions that you
will need to make? What processes will be used to make these decisions?
B. Culture: How will these decisions and processes impact business sustainability and elements of corporate culture such as corporate citizenship,
philanthropy, community involvement, the environment, and causal support?
C. Stakeholders: How will stakeholder groups be affected by these decisions and processes? For example, will any groups be alienated?
V. Impact
A. Community: Evaluate how the business ethics and regulatory issues that you previously described will impact the community served by your
business or the community where your business is located. Support your response with research in best practices in CSR.
B. Global Environment: Evaluate how the business ethics and regulatory issues that you previously described will impact the global environment of
your business. Support your response with research in best practices in CSR.
VI. Outcomes
A. Efforts: Describe the cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts in which your business will be involved. What is the best desired potential
outcome of these cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts?
B. Alignment: How do these efforts align to the corporate mission, vision, and values?
C. Impact: How will the alignment of the cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts with corporate mission, vision, and values improve
corporate exposure and profits? In your response, you could consider the impact of the alignment of concepts such as return on investment,
sustainability, and the community served by the business, for example.
VII. Conclusion
What will be the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for your company if the company implements the ideas in this CSR addendum? Consider both your own
personal ethics and best practices in CSR in your response.