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Managing Value Chain

Discussion question Due asap and a homework assignment due in 48 hours.

Discussion question:

Directions

1. Put on your entrepreneur hat! Assume the role as the founder of a fictional company. Describe (you may decide) what type of company, the location, and the societal variables relevant to your fictional company.

2. You know your value chain will benefit from implementing corporate socially responsible programs. You know the employees, customers, and societal environment will take notice and you will increase your company's competitive advantage. You have made the decision to improve your results by adding corporate social responsibility to your value chain's elements.

3. Explain how you will implement corporate social responsibility in your business.

• What do you need to know in order to decide what types of corporate social responsibility efforts will benefit your company? What expectations do you have related to costs and benefits? To what extent can your business demonstrate corporate social responsibility? What can you do without any cost or use of resources?

• What are the pros and cons of the corporate responsibility programs you are considering? Do the pros outweigh the cons? Explain.

• Conduct research to discover the answers to your questions.

• Describe how your business can demonstrate corporate responsible behavior. What will you do and how will employees, customers and society know?

4. The response should use first person ("I", "me") perspective.

5. Compose a response of at least four paragraphs of 4-5 sentences per paragraph.

6. Support your response's content with at least two applied and cited references from a Library article and your textbook. Apply and cite no more than one APA formatted reference and citation per paragraph . Internet references are not accepted for this Unit 3 Discussion. Use APA in-text citation within the response and list the applied reference(s) at the end of the response using APA formatting.

7. Proofread your response, run spell check and grammar check, and proofread again. Post your polished response in the Unit 3 Discussion forum.

Assignment in attached template:

1. Use the APA formatted Microsoft Word document template in Doc Sharing titled "Unit 3 Assignment Corporate Social Responsibility" as the starting point. Download the template and save it as your own document, for example, YourNameUnit3GB570.docx.

2. Write an APA formatted 4-6 pages paper, exclusive of the Title and References pages.

3. In your paper, address the following requirements using the directions included within the Unit 3 Assignment template.

A. Part One - use third person perspective.

1. Make a compelling argument as to why the inclusion of policies of corporate social responsibility enhance the ability of a firm to effectively manage a value chain and the achievement of competitive advantage.

2. Choose and analyze two examples of companies that have been successful in this integration.

3. Choose and analyze two examples of companies that have not been successful in this integration and identify what the companies should have done in their value chains proactively to protect their value chains.

4. Support your response's content with at least three applied and cited references. Accepted resources are: Kaplan Library article(s), your textbook and the chosen example companies' websites. No other internet references are acceptable for the Unit 3 Assignment. Apply and cite no more than one referenced sentence per paragraph. Not every paragraph requires use of a reference; originality is appreciated. Use APA in-text citations within the response and list the applied reference(s) at the end of the response using APA formatting. APA formatting resources are available in Kaplan's Writing Center in the "Research, Citation, and Plagiarism" area.

5. Include a conclusion summarizing the paper's content without introducing any new information.

B. Part Two - use first person perspective.

• Write a paragraph explaining your own critical thinking process that you used to complete Part One of the Assignment.

Attachment:- Template.rar