Experiential Exercises 1. The Environmental Impact Team Directions. Read the following scenario and perform the listedactivities. Your instructor may want you to perform the activitiesas an individual or within groups. Follow all of your instructor’sdirections carefully. You are the head of a major British newspaper, GuardianUnlimited, and have just completed a social audit of your orga-nization’s business activities. Your company produces a progres-sive, enlightened newspaper and a Web site, and writes regularlyabout corporate social responsibility topics. You conducted your social audit to make sure your company measures up to the highstandards your editorials expect of other companies. In the past,your company has won several social responsibility awards inareas such as encouraging diversity, innovation in social report-ing, and employee giving to social responsibility causes.Based on the results of your audit, you have set a new socialresponsibility goal for your newspaper for the upcoming three-year period. This goal is simple: to persuade your readers tohave a positive impact on the environment. You have established a new team called the EnvironmentalImpact Team to help you outline how your new goal will beaccomplished. You are presently meeting with this new team for the first time. Lead your group in outlining plans, organizationfeatures, an influence system, and a control mechanism, allaimed at achieving this new goal.
2. You and Your Career The preceding information implies that managers shouldcommunicate to other organization members the extent towhich their organizations will be involved in performing socialresponsibility activities. Could the lack of such communica-tion hinder your career success as a manger? Explain. Aspresident of the school in which you are presently enrolledtaking this management class, what would you say to profes-sors and students regarding the overall position on socialresponsibility that you would like for the school to embrace?What specific activities should be pursued corresponding tothis position?