BUS 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corporate Social Responsibility, Interpersonal Relationship, Independent Business

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUS 223
• Professor: Haskovon Kriegstein

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Role responsibility: suggests that when one holds a specific office or interpersonal relationship, one assumes a set of duties/obligations. Causal responsibility: responsibility for outcomes, either through action or inaction. Capacity responsibility: ability to understand, reason, and control in light of obligations, duties, and requirements, guns don"t kill people! Liability responsibility: tied to determination of compensation, assume sufficient level of casual responsibility, and, in most cases, capacity responsibility. Corporate social responsibility: responsibilities that a business has to the society in which it operates . What does social responsibility mean: responsibility as part of society, responsibility to upload society"s values, responsibility to do things for society, responsibility to play a social role, responsibility to contribute to society. 3 levels of responsibility/duty: duty not to do harm, causing avoidable harm is usually illegal, causing avoidable harm is unethical, what about alcohol, duty to prevent harm. E. g. , using renewable energy: duty to do good, responsibility vs.