Corporate Social Responsibility: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc. Shauna Davis Walden University 7/7/19 Introduction What is? Corporate Social Responsibility? Ethics in CSR Social Change How do the social change and CSR connect? In this presentation there are three things that we are going to look at. These are CSR, Ethics in CSR and Social Change. It is important to note that we shall be looking at how these later two are connected to Corporate social responsibility. The slide shows a picture that illustrates some of the things that govern social responsibility and it is evident that ethics is highlighted as one of the major arms of CSR. 2 Corporate Social Responsibility Commonly known as CSR A company’s effort to give back to community it serves Entails; Economic Responsibility Environmental Sustainability Acts of philanthropy Ethical business practices Involves; Employees Members of the Community Profit Organizations Non-profit organizations Environment (Lindgreen & Swaen, 2010). CSR is simply the efforts that any organization or company make in order to serve community it works in better. This could include giving back to the community through philanthropic giving, ensuring ethical business practices, ensuring their operations do not negatively impact the environment and change the lives of the community members it serves directly or indirectly. In the named activities all companies have a responsibility towards achieving this for the benefit of community members or the environment and it is best achieved when the employees or staff participate (Lindgreen & Swaen, 2010). 3 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc. An American company that makes Ice-cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet. Number 1 of 20 top CSR companies in 2017 It allocates 7.5% of its pretax profit to philanthropic acts Allocates more than $1.8m annually (Nupur, July 2017). Engages in; community based projects grant awarding corporate charity employee generosity use of fair trade ingredients advocating for social change This is an American company that sells Ice-cream, yoghurt and sorbet. Almost since its inception, the company participated in charity and currently have a budget of 7.5% of their profits before tax dedicated to social responsibility. In an article published in 2017 it was the first in a list of 20 companies that take CSR seriously. These are some of its engagements in CSR. 4 Ethics in Corporate Social Responsibility Moral values governing conduct CSR itself is an ethical requirement in Business CSR has to be conducted in ways that are applicable to the governing morals of the immediate environment (Griseri & Seppala, 2010). Ethics are moral values or principles on which the conduct of a people, an organization or nation is based on. Carrying out corporate social responsibilities activities is in its own way an ethical act. Conducting these activities effective and efficiently while considering the values held dear by those direc.

1. Corporate Social Responsibility: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade
Holdings Inc.
Shauna Davis
Walden University
7/7/19
Introduction
What is?
Corporate Social Responsibility?
Ethics in CSR
Social Change
How do the social change and CSR connect?
In this presentation there are three things that we are going to
look at. These are CSR, Ethics in CSR and Social Change. It is
important to note that we shall be looking at how these later two
are connected to Corporate social responsibility. The slide
shows a picture that illustrates some of the things that govern
social responsibility and it is evident that ethics is highlighted
as one of the major arms of CSR.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Commonly known as CSR
A company’s effort to give back to community it serves
Entails;

2. Economic Responsibility
Environmental Sustainability
Acts of philanthropy
Ethical business practices
Involves;
Employees
Members of the Community
Profit Organizations
Non-profit organizations
Environment (Lindgreen & Swaen, 2010).
CSR is simply the efforts that any organization or company
make in order to serve community it works in better. This could
include giving back to the community through philanthropic
giving, ensuring ethical business practices, ensuring their
operations do not negatively impact the environment and change
the lives of the community members it serves directly or
indirectly. In the named activities all companies have a
responsibility towards achieving this for the benefit of
community members or the environment and it is best achieved
when the employees or staff participate (Lindgreen & Swaen,
2010).
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc.
An American company that makes Ice-cream, frozen yogurt and
sorbet.
Number 1 of 20 top CSR companies in 2017
It allocates 7.5% of its pretax profit to philanthropic acts
Allocates more than $1.8m annually (Nupur, July 2017).
Engages in;

3. community based projects
grant awarding corporate charity
employee generosity
use of fair trade ingredients
advocating for social change
This is an American company that sells Ice-cream, yoghurt and
sorbet. Almost since its inception, the company participated in
charity and currently have a budget of 7.5% of their profits
before tax dedicated to social responsibility. In an article
published in 2017 it was the first in a list of 20 companies that
take CSR seriously. These are some of its engagements in CSR.
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Ethics in Corporate Social Responsibility
Moral values governing conduct
CSR itself is an ethical requirement in Business
CSR has to be conducted in ways that are applicable to the
governing morals of the immediate environment (Griseri &
Seppala, 2010).
Ethics are moral values or principles on which the conduct of a
people, an organization or nation is based on. Carrying out
corporate social responsibilities activities is in its own way an
ethical act. Conducting these activities effective and efficiently
while considering the values held dear by those directly targeted

4. by the CSR is being ethical too. Trustworthiness, respect,
responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship are the major
ethics on which CSR acts are grounded. Ben & Jerry’s show
these ethical values by having CSR policies and programs for
the employees as well as the society.
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Social Change
Changes in human interactions
Result in cultural change and change in social order
Companies can be agents of social change (Visser, 2011).
Ben & Jerry’s achieves this through social and environmental
justice and sustainable food systems.
Caused by:
Social conflict
Cultural change
Technological advancements
Population growth
Change in population composition
Environmental changes
Social change is simply a change in the composition, structure,
order or functions of a society as a result of human or
environmental factors. Human factors contributing to social
change include; conflict, technology advancements, culture
changes and even change in population composition amongst
others (Visser, 2011). Ben & Jerry’s as a CSR company
advocates for social change by direct action into programs that
support social and environmental justice as well as sustainable
food systems. Proposals around the three interests are funded by
their active foundation.
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5. Intersection of CSR, Ethics and Social Change
From the above explanations in previous slides it is clear that
the three terms are interconnected. Corporate social
responsibility uses ethics to advocate for social change. Positive
social change is a major aspect of business ethics as much as it
is an anticipated result of corporate social responsibility.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Social Change
Ethics
Summary
CSR is a responsibility of all companies
Whether they are profit making or not
CSR affects the environment and community
Ben & Jerry’s is a good example of a highly
responsible CSR company
Ethics are important in CSR
CSR should push for positive social change
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6. References
Griseri, P., & Seppala, N. (2010). Business ethics and corporate
social responsibility. Cengage Learning.
Lindgreen, A., & Swaen, V. (2010). Corporate social
responsibility. International Journal of Management
Reviews, 12(1), 1-7.
Nupur V. (July 2017). Top 20 Corporate Social Responsibility
Initiatives for 2017. Retrieved from
https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/top-20-corporate-
social-responsibility-initiatives-for-2017/
Visser, W. (2011). The age of responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the
new DNA of business. John Wiley & Sons.
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