Reference no: EM131142494
Company is Whole Foods!!! corporate social responsibility (CSR) addendum
• Analyze internal and external business environments for determining current trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and business ethics.
• Align corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes with business ethics and regulations to optimize business sustainability.
• Assess decision-making processes for their impact on internal and external stakeholders and corporate culture.
• Evaluate personal and business ethics for their community and global impact through research of best practices in corporate culture and social responsibility.
• Align cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts with corporate mission, vision, and values to improve corporate exposure and profit
• Executive Summary ConciselydescribeWhole Foodsand business product, service, or other idea from the business plan: Marketing and Strategy.In your description, make sure that you include thetarget stakeholdersand theirrelationship to the mission, vision, and values ofWhole Foods.
• Business Environment: Analyze the currentinternalandexternal factorsrelated to the business environment ofWhole Foods. In other words,what are the internal and external factors, and how do they influence the business environment ofWhole Foods?
• Description: Based on your analysis of internal and external factors, describe the trends in corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and business ethics that will impact your business.Use CSR resources to support your response.
• Impact: What will be the impact of these trends onWhole Foods, and how can your company prepare for the impact?
• Issues: Describe the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that could impact Whole Foods. How could these ethics and regulatory issues affect yourcorporate strategy,brand development, anddecision-making processes?
• Alignment: How will you align your corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory issues that you described?
• Sustainability: How will the alignment of corporate strategy, brand development, and decision-making processes to the business ethics and regulatory issues you described optimize the sustainability of your business?
• Decisions: Based on the potential business ethics and regulatory issues that you previously described, what are the business decisions thatyou will need to make?What processes will be used to make these decisions?
• Culture: How will these decisions and processes impact business sustainability and elements of corporate culture such as corporate citizenship,philanthropy, community involvement, the environment, and causal support?
• Stakeholders: How willstakeholder groupsbe affected by these decisions and processes? For example, will any groups be alienated?
• Community: Evaluate how thebusiness ethicsand regulatory issues that you previously described will impact the community served by your business or the community where your business is located. Support your response with research in best practices inCSR.
• Global Environment: Evaluate how the business ethics and regulatory issues that you previously described will impact the global environment ofyour business. Support your response with research in best practices in CSR.
• Efforts: Describe the cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts in which your business will be involved. What is the best desired potential outcome of these cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts?
• Alignment: How do these efforts align to the corporate mission, vision, and values?
• Impact: How will the alignment of the cultural awareness and civic engagement efforts with corporate mission, vision, and values improve corporate exposure and profits? In your response, you could consider the impact of the alignment of concepts such as return on investment,sustainability, and the community served by the business, for example.
• Conclusion: What will be the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for your company if the company implements the ideas in this CSR addendum? Consider both your own personal ethics and best practices in CSR in your response.
• 16 Pages(not including cover page or reference page)
• 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins
• APA Format and Citations
• Five scholarly sources!!!
• Proper Grammar and punctuation
• No plagiarism