EBC 1001 Group 02

Minutes Meeting 7 (Pre-Discussion):

Tuesday 24th of September 2019

Discussion Leader: Isabel

Secretary: Selin Daumann

Pre – discussion: Task 9:

Step 1: Clarification of terms:

- Matrix: cultural, social political environment in which something
develops (Setting)

- Pervasive: spreading of something throughout a group of people

Step 2: Problem Statement:

How to structure and organization?

How an organization should use Corporate Social Responsibility?

Step 3: Brain storming:

Structure of an organization
Impact factors:
- Scale
- Coordinating mechanisms
- Managers interacting with people
- Depends on the type and context of organization
- Depends on the company and size
- Division of responsibility
- Size
- Coordinating mechanism
- Span of control
- Chain of command

Social responsibility:
- Corporate decisions
- Depends on organization
- Use CSR as a Marketing Strategy
- Company should adapt to social issues and aspects
Stakeholder:
- Shareholders help company but – one-way relationship
- Positive and negative effect – but overall negative (sometimes don’t have
the same vision)

Step 4: Systematic Inventory:

Defining Impact factors:

- Scale
- Coordinating mechanisms
- Span of control
- Chain of command
- Level of centralization and formalization

Step 5: Learning goal:

LEARNING GOAL 1:
What is organizational structure and which types are there?

LEARNING GOAL 2:
What is social corporate responsibility?

LEARNING GOAL 3:
What are the factors that impact organizational structure? (e.g. Level of
centralization, chain of command…) What are the different contingency
factors?

LEARNING GOAL 4:
How does the formal authority of the manager impact organizational chart?

LEARNING GOAL 5:

What are the reasons an organization pushes social responsibility?

LEARNING GOAL 6:

Which perspectives do organizations have on corporate social responsibility?

LEARNING GOAL 7:
Which positive and negative effects do stakeholders have on an organization
(regarding CSR)?

LEARNING GOAL 8:
What are the different ways to do CSR?

LEARNING GOAL 9:
What are the ethical judgements?

For next session Thursday 26th September:

Bring a Newspaper article of an Example of how an organization does CSR?
- Different examples

Read: Chapter 5 and Chapter 10