Course: Corporate Social Responsibility

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Course: Corporate Social Responsibility

Internal Assignment applicable for December 2017 Examination

Assignment Marks: 30

Instructions:

·       All Questions carry equal marks.

·       All Questions are compulsory

·       All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples, illustrations as far as possible.

·       All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.

·       Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of reference.

·       Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from other students is not allowed.

·       Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.

For Theoretical Answer			For Numerical Answer
Assessment Parameter	Weightage		Assessment Parameter	Weightage
Introduction	20%		Understanding and usage of the formula	20%
Concepts and Application related to the question	60%		Procedure / Steps	50%
Conclusion	20%		Correct Answer & Interpretation	30%

Case let:

Roughly 20 pieces of clothing per person are manufactured each year. Growth of the multi-trillion-dollar apparel industry has been fed by “fast fashion,” which makes clothing cheaply and quickly with a low price-tag. Fast-changing trends and low prices have allowed people to consume more. The average consumer is now purchasing 60 percent more items of clothing compared to 2000

Cotton is the most common natural fiber used to make clothing, accounting for about 33 percent of all fibers found in textiles. Cotton is also a very thirsty crop, requiring 2,700 liters of water—what one person drinks in two-and-a-half years—to make one cotton shirt. In areas already facing water stress, cotton production can be particularly damaging. In Central Asia, for instance, the Aral Sea has nearly disappeared because cotton farmers draw excessively from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Cotton farming is also responsible for 24 percent of insecticides and 11 percent of pesticides despite using about 3 percent of the world’s arable land.

The carbon footprint of a garment largely depends on the material. While synthetic fibres like polyester have less impact on water and land than grown materials like cotton, they emit more greenhouse gasses per kilogram.* (Source, National Geographic & WRI)

M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd, a listed company, manufactures cotton fabric and its multiple blended variants as per customer/client demands. Customers/clients include fashion houses, designers and large clothing manufacturers across Asia & Europe. You are the Head of CSR with the company.

Question. 1. As Head of CSR you have been asked to come up with a detailed plan to sensitize your employees on water as a critical resource and also initiate setting up of an innovation driven cell/campaign for saving water. Design and develop a strategic plan/roadmap involving sensitization of 100+ employees as well as setting up of the Water innovation cell/campaign with SMART goals/outcomes for M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd. Please be very specific and relevant to the company.

Answer: CLTS emerged in the year 2000 as a participatory way to deal with address OD (Kar and Chambers, 2008), and is currently a settled approach that has been executed in more than 50 nations (IDS, 2011). CLTS was acquainted with Kenya in 2007. At the origin of this undertaking in 2011, CLTS in Kenya was centered around approaches, techniques, and institutional game plans broadly; and on town level usage locally (Crocker and Rowe, 2015).

Question. 2. Your company is committed to protect, respect and remedy Framework of UN Principles on Business and Human Rights. The Head of manufacturing at M/s Fine fabrics Ltd wants to partner with the supply chain in generating similar Human Rights commitments across their businesses, which are mostly midsized. He wants your guidance on how to convince these vendors to buy in into this voluntarily. Develop a business case and a broad plan that your Head Manufacturing can use to convince the vendor businesses to come on board and adopt UN Principles for Businesses & Human Rights.

Answer: Maintaining a strategic distance from a Treaty: That argument helped concentrate some government minds. The Commission asked Kofi Annan, at that point UN Secretary-General, to delegate an agent to outline a path forward. Teacher John Ruggie was the designated man. More than six years he ran a watchful

Question. 3. a) Carbon Offset is one mechanism used to reduce the carbon footprints of a business. Suggest to your CEO at Fine Fabrics Ltd two concrete ways in which Fine Fabrics can reduce its carbon footprints, develop a convincing business benefit argument around each of the suggestion.

Answer: A carbon credit is a considered to be a generic term for any tradable declaration or permit speaking to one side to discharge one ton of carbon dioxide or the mass of another ozone harming substance with a carbon dioxide equal (tCO2e) proportional to one ton of carbon dioxide.

Carbon credits and carbon markets are a part of

b) An NGO has approached the CEO of M/s Fine Fabrics Ltd requesting funding for a project on cotton fabric based Traditional Crafts making workshop for girls & women from weaker socio economic background. Your company falls under the criteria of 2% spend on CSR as per Companies Act 2013. Your CEO thinks this project can be funded but wants you to do the due diligence of the NGO. Prepare a questionnaire with at least 5/five questions that you think your company should ask and receive answers to before agreeing to fund the project/ partner in the project.

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