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BOOK TITLE : Title: Contemporary Management

Author: Jennifer M George

Copyright: 2024 Release

Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC

ISBN: 9781266877247 (Unbound Loose-Leaf Version)

ISBN: 9781264948390 (Hardcopy Bound Version)

Complete your assigned Week 1 textbook reading (Chapters 1-4) and then read the two articles below which correspond to this week's discussion topics. Then answer the questions below the articles. Use the concepts from the course textbook and the articles to support the information in your initial post.It is required you support your initial posts and peer posts with cited information from all the sources you use and provide all the sources in your reference list to meet the APA style requirements.

BetterWorldBooks Case Study Articles

Case Study Article 1

A Multitude of Corporate Responsibility Examples

One of the biggest problems facing the world today is in the area of literacy. Being able to read and write at a basic level is a requirement for success in almost any job or career field. Better World practices corporate responsibility by providing free books to people wishing to increase their reading ability and gain knowledge that can help them improve their lives. For every book the company sells, it donates another to someone in need, somewhere in the world. Better World also uses its revenues to fund literacy initiatives that teach reading skills. Better World currently offers 8 million new and used books on its website.

Simple Beginning

Better World Books began in 2002. Three friends, fellow students at the University of Notre Dame, decided to sell textbooks online for extra money. The idea grew into a goal of promoting literacy through a social enterprise. The company is not a traditional company that decided to do something good for the world. Rather, the company's primary purpose and mission are social responsibility and sustainability. Their corporate responsibility examples include:

• The Book for Book program, giving a book to someone in need for every book the company sells
• Free worldwide shipping on books
• Carbon-balanced packaging, with Green-e certified offsets, to help reduce Better World's carbon footprint
• Collecting used books from college campuses and libraries through its book drives, converting these used titles into over $24 million in literacy and education funding
• Preventing over 250 million books from entering landfills since the company's founding.

The Power of Literacy

Better World Books believes that all books have lasting value and can help change lives. They are committed to improving literacy and quality of life for people of all nations. Their Book for Book program makes millions of free books available to those who need them. These qualities and driving principles are what make Better World Books one of the best corporate responsibility examples we have found.

APA 7th ed. format reference for the above article:

Newell, G. (2023).Corporate responsibility examples from Better World books.https://602communications.com/better-world-books-corporate-responsibility-examples/

Case Study Article 2

Our Mission -Buy Books. Do Good.

Better World Books is your online destination for books offering the widest selection of used and new books. We give book lovers across the globe access to the power of knowledge at an affordable price and help them stay connected through reading. We better the world, one book at a time, by making a difference with every purchase made through donations and environmental programs. It's simple: Buy Books. Do Good.

38M+Books donated

$35M+funds raised for libraries & literacy

475M+books reused or recycled

117M+books sold

Donations

Every time you purchase a book from BetterWorldBooks.com, you help us donate books to people who need it. The books we donate go through hundreds of non-profit organizations. Our customers have helped make it possible for Better World Books to have donated over 35 million books.

Literacy

Contribution to literacy at checkout.

We do not just support global literacy alone. We work with libraries and readers across the globe to make a difference with every purchase.

Our annual literacy grants fund literacy and educational nonprofits and libraries for specific projects. Libraries and educational nonprofit literacy groups may apply for funds to support their efforts to further literacy in their communities. We carefully review each application ahead of awarding grants to fund projects that will have the greatest impact. Grants from Better World Books are made possible by your purchases!

We also partner with organizations to help them fundraise for programs that support literacy. Our customers have the option to contribute one dollar ($1.00) with each purchase on BetterWorldBooks.com for these initiatives. We have partnered with a variety of organizations, including Books for Africa, Internet Archive, and Little Free Library.

Sustainability

We are committed to creating a positive social and environmental impact.

Better World Books diverts books from landfills by collecting material from libraries, bookstores, college campuses throughout the community, and other sources with surplus materials.

Better World Books diverts books from landfills by collecting material from libraries, bookstores, college campuses throughout the community, and other sources with surplus materials.

Certified B Corporation

Better World Books is proud to be B Corp certified. B Corp certification is awarded to companies that achieve high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. B Corps are committed to using business as a force for good in the world.

Recycling

As part of our commitment to environmental sustainability, we never, ever throw away a book. Any book for which we cannot find a proper home is recycled.

Carbon Balance

Every order at Better World Books may be shipped as carbon balanced for just a few cents more. Our customers have helped us make a difference by reaching over 128,657 tons of carbon offsets simply by selecting this option with their order at checkout.

Drop Boxes

Do you have books you would like to donate? Better World Books is the best place to donate your used books. We have hundreds of drop boxes in the United States and the United Kingdom. Find the nearest location to youhere.

APA 7th ed. format reference for the above article:

BetterWorldBooks. (2024).Our mission: Buy books. Do good.https://www.betterworldbooks.com/go/mission

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Social Responsibility at Better World Books

Answer the following questions in their entirety:

1. Discuss the concepts related to the four main sources or determinants of differences in managerial ethics implemented in organizations as discussed in our course textbook.

2. A company's ethics, as discussed in the previous question, will determine the company's perspective, or stance, on its obligations to make socially responsible business decisions. Discuss the ways in which a company can commit to social responsibility based on the specific approach it implements.Explain each of the four approaches presented in our course textbook in detail and determine their strengths from low to high.

3. Read the articles above and determine which approach to social responsibility 'Better World Books' implements in their for-profit social enterprise mission-based Buy One Book - Donate One Book Business Model. How does this business model also achieve environmental sustainability?

Initial Post and Rubric Requirements

To post to the discussion, click on Week 1 Discussion above, then click Create Thread. It is required to submit your initial response post to enter the Discussion Forum. If you enter the Discussion Forum prior to submitting your initial response post, you will not earn credit for your initial post.

It is required to submit the initial post to the Discussion Forum as a discussion post. Please do not submit the initial post as an attached Word document. Posts submitted as attachments are not able to be graded.

Please read each question thoroughly and answer all questions in their entirety in your initial post. It is important to answer all components of the questions in a comprehensive discussion post. One or two-sentence responses are not acceptable. Please note it is required to support your responses with cited information from all the sources you used by providing APA 7th ed. format in-text citations.

Peer Post Guidelines and Rubric Requirements

It is required to respond to two of your peers' posts.Your peer responses are required to be addressed to the student you are responding to by their name.Your peer post responses are required to include the course textbook concepts. Providing comments or a one or two-sentence response is not acceptable. Simply agreeing with your peers or reiterating the information they provided in their initial post is not acceptable. Your peer posts should include a response that reflects your understanding of the course concepts and provide additional information to add to and further the discussion.

Please use the APA 7th ed. format resources found in the 'Getting Started' tab in the 'Business Writing and Research APA Formatting Videos' module to learn how to cite the sources and write the references in correct APA format.

Discussion Posts (APA Guidelines)

It is required you support your initial posts and peer posts with cited information from the current George (2024) course textbook and the Case Study articles. You are encouraged to provide additional professional sources such as scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles found in the Online Keiser Library. You may also use other professional business sources.

It is required to use correct APA 7th ed. format for citing your sources when writing your discussion posts. Please do not provide any direct quotes from your sources. All information used from sources is required to be paraphrased in your own words and cited appropriately.It is required to cite all your sources and provide the references for all your sources at the end of your posts in a Reference List.

When citing information from the Case Study articles cite the reference listed at the end of the article, not the textbook. You should cite the textbook only for the managerial concepts related to the Case Study.

Please note any discussion post created using any information from any Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot with natural language processing (NLP) such as ChatGPT or any other AI program, or any type of paraphrasing tool will not be accepted, and a zero grade will be earned if used.

All sources are required to be published from 2016 to the present year.

The following sources are NOT accepted:Wikipedia, Wiki websites, blogs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, online books or textbooks, other books or textbooks, other students' papers found on online websites, online essays, job search websites such as Indeed.com, student dissertations (thesis papers), White Pages, videos, podcasts, social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, etc.). and non-professional online websites.

THE INITIAL POST IS SUGGESTED TO BE SUBMITTED BY THURSDAY BUT IS REQUIRED TO BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN FRIDAY.IT IS REQUIRED YOU POST/PARTICIPATE ON A MINIMUM OF THREE SEPARATE DAYS BY SUNDAY TO MEET THE THREE-DAY PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT