For this assignment, you will read an article that discusses interviewing techniques, and you will then apply what you have learned by creating your own set of interview questions. ocate the following article: Oliphant, G. C., Hansen, K., & Oliphant, B. J. (2008). A review of a telephone-administered behavior-based interview technique. Business Communication Quarterly, 71(3), 383-386. (attached below)
Part I: After reading the article, summarize the purpose of the study, and then answer the questions below. What are the authors’ main points for conducting the study? Do you agree with the authors’ findings? What evidence from additional sources supports your opinion? What are the reasons employers use the employment interview to fill job openings? How effective do you think behavior-based interviews that are conducted via telephone are? Briefly describe the main features of equal employment laws, and tell how this article demonstrates these features. Part II: Using the knowledge you have accumulated throughout this unit, develop a minimum of five (but no more than eight) non-discriminatory interview questions that you would ask when conducting a telephone interview. These questions should be listed on the last page of your critique. Use the guidelines below to prepare your article critique. Parts I and II combined must be at least three pages in length. Summarize the article on page one. Identify the main topic or question. Identify the intended audience. Think critically about the article and how it applies to the course when answering the questions. Organize the material logically by using smooth transitions and by grouping similar material together. Submit Parts I and II as a single document. Format your article critique using APA style. Use your own words, and avoid plagiarism. At least one source other than the article must be used. All sources used must be referenced; any paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format.

In this Module, you will locate a scholarly article related to Corporate Social Responsibility in the library ( see attached). Then, you will write a 3-page paper, in which you will summarize the article, and state why the article is an important contribution to the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR).
Required Reading
Refer to the Background section for required and optional readings.

Assignment

In a well-written, 3-page paper, evaluate a scholarly article related to CSR, and discuss the merit of the article for today’s organizations.

Keys to the Assignment

1.   In 1-2 paragraphs, define what is meant by CSR.
2.  Briefly summarize the article (1-2 paragraphs).
3.  Discuss the contribution of the article to our knowledge of CSR – i.e., discuss why the article is important to our understanding of CSR. In short, why does this article matter?
4.  Be sure to use at least one additional source from the library (see attached) (other than your chosen article) to support your discussion and analysis (choose a source that is not included in the Background section).
5.  Follow the guidelines in The Student Guide to Writing a High Quality Academic Paper
6.  You are expected to demonstrate evidence of critical thinking – as defined in the background materials and the grading rubric.
Background
In the SLP, we will be exploring the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR. It has been said that business leaders are never asked about their personal sense of ethics these days – at least not until they are seated in front of a legislative committee. It would seem that there is an abundance of truth in this statement – that is, we don’t often think about our organizational leaders’ sense of ethics until they’ve gotten themselves into serious legal trouble.
All of this begs the question of whether highly ethical organizational cultures are more apt to produce ethical behaviors. Common sense tells us that they would. But if this is true, then why don’t all – or perhaps most – organizations have ethical behaviors? One possible answer might be that building an ethical organization requires a lot of money, a lot of know-how and emphasis, a lot of dedicated people, and a lot of organizational energy.
Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, begins with engagement – that is, a company’s engagement with internal and external stakeholders (not “stockholders,” butstakeholders– those individuals or entities that have some interest in the company – e.g., employees, stockholders, potential investors, suppliers, buyers, the government, and the community-at-large). Begin by reading the following articles related to CSR, and what it means for organizations to be “socially responsible”:
Brooks, C. (2013, May 22). Social responsibility no longer optional for businesses.Business News Daily. Retrieved fromhttp://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4528-social-responsibility-not-optional.html
Fallon, N. (2014, December 22). What is corporate social responsibility?Business News Daily. Retrieved fromhttp://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4679-corporate-social-responsibility.html
Optional Reading
The following article is also a very good overview of CSR. The article raises the pointed question as to whether organizations should choose to be socially responsible because of the derived financial benefits, or because being socially responsible is simply the right thing to do:
Perakis, E. (2009, April). Corporate responsibility: A business driver or an ethical obligation? Global Focus, 3(2), 60-63. Retrieved from ProQuest. ( see attached)