Business responsibility is an emerging discipline encompassing various issues considered significant in business and management in the past. It includes important established as well as emerging issues such as corporate social responsibility, business ethics, corporate governance, stakeholder management, and human rights in business. This book is primarily for graduate and post-graduate courses in management, such as MBA and PG Diploma in Management. It could also be used as a reference text in allied disciplines such as social sciences and environmental management. The book has been written with the purpose of offering a topical, relevant, and concise yet complete textbook for students and faculty in management programmes covering various business responsibility-related topics that are covered in different courses or are not covered at all. This textbook is suited for use in classroom as well as for self-study. Middle-level managers, trainers, consultants, and researchers in business responsibility would also find this book to be quite useful.
- Easy-to-understand language
- Student-friendly textbook that provides information in an interesting and engaging manner
- Comprehensive treatment of all the relevant issues covered under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GoI, regulations on submission of annual business responsibility reports as a part of their annual reports by the top 500 listed companies.
- The text in each chapter is divided into sections and sub-sections logically connected to each other, and a certain amount of deliberate repetition to enable reinforcement of learning to take place.
- Brief historical global perspective of an issue and its origin and evolution in the Indian context offers interesting perspective and helps the reader understand and relate to the issue.
- Latest theories have been incorporated to reflect the state-of-the-art in business responsibility with special emphasis on the Indian context and business responsibility concerns of Indian organisations.
- Wherever a complex theoretical issue needs elaboration: exhibits present a vast gamut of contemporary information, examples of applying business responsibility concepts and techniques, and illustrations drawn from the Indian business environment.
- Chapter-end cases from different industries—manufacturing, services, government, and non-governmental organisations—are descriptive accounts of how a particular responsibility-related issue is implemented in an organisation.
- This book includes a license key for our digital learning app, CENGAGE app, that provides access to self-assessments and flashcards.
1. Foundations of Business Responsibility
2. Corporate Social Responsibility
3. Corporate Sustainability
4. Stakeholder Management
5. Corporate Governance
6. Business Ethics
7. Corporate Political Activity
8. Human Rights in Business
9. Employee Wellbeing
10. Business Responsibility to Consumer
11. Business Responsibility Reporting
Azhar Kazmi
Azhar Kazmi, formerly, Professor of Business Administration at Aligarh Muslim University, is presently visiting professor of Management at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He is a mechanical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani; an MBA from R.A. Podar Institute of Management, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; and PhD in management from Kurukshetra University.
Adela Kazmi
Adela Kazmi, formerly, Lecturer in Management at Sophia Girls’ College, Ajmer, where she taught management, marketing, human resource management, and organisational behaviour to undergraduate management students for more than 6 years. Presently, she is on sabbatical and an independent author.
