This week’s chapter explains the role of boards of directors in the

corporate governance of organizations such as large, publicly traded corporations, focussing on their ethical behaviour and social responsibility performance.

1. Conflict of Interest was identified as a potential ethical issue that may confront a board member of a corporation.For this exercise:
discuss three ways a corporate board member might engage in inappropriate ethical behavior, and explain why each is a problem for the company.

-Discuss three ways a corporate board member might engage in inappropriate ethical behavior, and explain why each is a problem for the company and shareholders.
-Describe how these situations could have been avoided?

2. Moral reasoning was also cited as an issue that might influence corporate behavior. Please include and discuss an example of why this might be problematic for an organization.

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Corporate social responsibility impacts a number of a company’s stakeholders including: a) Communities, b) Consumers, c) Shareholders, and c) Employees.
For this exercise:

3. Please provide a specific example of a company you know or have read about, and how it has demonstrated social responsibility, and how this has benefited the company. (Provide an example for each of the stakeholders identified above (Communities, Consumers, Shareholders, and Employees). More than one company must be discussed in the response.

4. Explain why Corporate Social Responsibility is important to society as a whole.