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Corporations and Social Responsibility

Corporations and Social Responsibility

Q Learning Activity #1 In Chapter 13: The Responsible Office: Corporations and Social Responsibility, we are introduced business organizations. In what ways does the structure of a corporation protect its owners from absorbing ethical responsibility for the company’s actions? In your response, discuss the ethics of the decision to have this structure when a person can invest in a horrible corporation that does an incredible amount of damage and that person is immune from being responsible for any damage beyond the investment made. How do you defend this corporate structure? How do you not defend this corporate structure? Include in your response a discussion of an ethical that supports your position and response.

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The structure of the corporation can protect its owners from absorbing ethical responsibility for the company’s actions. It is the ethical and legal responsibilities of the higher management of a corporation to make the organizational structure that way for managing all of the ethical concerns in a proper manner. The organizational structure should involve good leadership and the owner as shareholder model (Brusseau 2012, p.586).