A: Corporate social responsibility is an imported product, which comes from abroad and is abbreviated as CSR in English. The development of corporate social responsibility can be traced back to the beginning of this century. An economist put forward the view that "heaven is not built on the company's income statement, but on everyone's responsibility". In other words, the company's profit statement is very important, which reflects whether a company can create more material wealth, but it can't build a paradise. Only when companies fulfill their social responsibilities can human society become a paradise. This idea has some influence after it was put forward, but it has not attracted the attention of the whole society more widely. By 1953, an American wrote a book called "Corporate Social Responsibility", which comprehensively expounded the achievements of studying corporate social responsibility in that historical period and attracted great attention in the economic and business circles. By the 1970s, some enterprises in western society were rampant in this immoral behavior, the gap between the rich and the poor in the process of social development was widening, the ecological environment was seriously damaged, and the image of enterprises in the public was greatly reduced. At that time, there was a book about people's cognitive background. The author lists some things: "2% of children in the United States enjoy 50% of the toys in the world", "a quarter of children in Bangladesh and Nigeria become child laborers", and "in the 1980s, the salary of American CEO was 40 times that of ordinary workers, which increased to 400 times by the end of last century. Faced with this reality, some people call it greed, while others call it the normal incentive of enterprises. Obviously, there are differences. Is it human moral greed or reasonable encouragement? However, it is an obvious fact that global problems such as population growth, poverty and inequality, global warming, ozone hole, air and water pollution and land desertification threaten human life and sustainable development. In some materials, it is described as follows: "Managers pursue self-interest, employees absenteeism strikes, suppliers reduce quality or even make fakes, customers deliberately resist new products, crimes under commercial bribery are increasing, and the government increases predatory taxes. "People have seen that in this process of moral imbalance, everyone will face a chaotic society. All these phenomena are related to economic development and the moral quality of entrepreneurs to some extent.
In order to solve a series of problems such as polarization, social poverty, especially labor-capital contradiction and environmental pollution, and to improve the image of the enterprise itself, the business community has integrated a brand-new management concept, which is the responsibility of the enterprise society. 1973, the British government issued the White Paper on Enterprise Law Reform, which began to involve the content of corporate social responsibility, taking social responsibility as an important content in the company's decision-making process, requiring enterprises to care about workers' health and professional ethics, the public and the ecological environment in the process of providing quality products, and realize the sustainable development of enterprises and economy. For the first time, the government has incorporated corporate social responsibility into government management. Since 1990s, western countries have set off a wave of fulfilling corporate social responsibility. During this period, the United States, Britain, France and other EU countries and some economic organizations have formulated laws and regulations on social responsibility. Governments, non-governmental organizations and trade associations pay more and more attention to corporate social responsibility. Enterprises or entrepreneurs in European and American countries are not conscience findings. In fact, they are forced by the market environment and customer pressure to put forward this topic. Therefore, a mature and rational social environment and consumer groups are an important basis for discussing corporate social responsibility.
What should I say if I make a speech? Where did the discussion come from?
In the process of practicing corporate social responsibility, both academia and enterprises emphasize that enterprises should be responsible to shareholders and related stakeholders, which is the core of corporate social responsibility. The responsibility of enterprises to shareholders is the unshirkable responsibility that enterprises should first consider as economic organizations. Being responsible to relevant stakeholders is part of being responsible to society. The closest stakeholders of an enterprise are shareholders, followed by other stakeholders. The second stakeholder is consumers, the third stakeholder is employees, and the fourth stakeholder is suppliers. Corporate responsibility for the government is also a part of corporate social responsibility. When the whole business activity is carried out under the condition of abiding by the law, the relationship between enterprises and the government is a legal relationship. From the perspective of stakeholders, enterprises should assist the government in the management of the whole society, which is also different from the above stakeholders. When creating material wealth, enterprises must abide by business ethics, protect employees' rights, pay attention to environmental protection, and pay attention to vulnerable groups.