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Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awareness and practices in manufacturing sector of Pakistan
conference contribution
posted on 2017-09-13, 09:58 authored by Amjad Hussain, Syed Fahad Ali, Keith Case, Tariq Masood, Maryam MasoodGlobalization and mass communication have significantly influenced the socio-economic growth of countries and organizations are under immense pressure to develop their businesses in a more socially responsible way. Consequently, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as a business development concept. CSR acknowledgement is low in south Asian countries both at state and corporate levels. Pakistan, being a developing country, is no exception and the manufacturing sector, which is the third largest contributing sector to the economy, is facing the challenge of corporate social compliance. This study explores the awareness level amongst employees in the manufacturing sector and also evaluates the practices of CSR activities in these organizations. The study is mainly focused on the textile and automobile sectors and shows greater CSR awareness in the automobile sector than the textile sector; however, there are many organizations where the concept of CSR is unknown. The findings of this research will help organizations in enhancing understanding of CSR amongst employees and will also allow manufacturing industries to improve their implementation against identified weak areas. Increased levels of social compliance will ultimately help organizations in promoting their businesses in the global market.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Fifteenth International Conference on Manufacturing Research Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXIPages
389 - 394 (6)Citation
HUSSAIN, A. ... et al, 2017. Assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awareness and practices in manufacturing sector of Pakistan. IN: Gao, J., El Souri, M. and Keates, S. (eds). Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXX. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Manufacturing Research, University of Greenwich, London, UK, 5th-7th September 2017, pp. 389-394.Publisher
IOS PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-07-01Publication date
2017Notes
This paper appears here with permission from IOS Press. The final publication is available at IOS Press through https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-792-4-389.ISBN
9781614997917Publisher version
Book series
Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering;6Language
- en