Climate change, modern slavery, a global pandemic, supply chain challenges, artificial intelligence these are just some of the major issues confront

Climate change, modern slavery, a global pandemic, supply chain challenges, artificial intelligence these are just some of the major issues confronting contemporary organisations and management in 2023. In 2022, the CEO of BlackRock championed stakeholder capitalism to respond to these challenges (Fink, 2022). In 2023, Australias Federal Treasurer argued we need to embrace values-based capitalism in response to these challenges (Chalmers, 2023). In this context, the question becomes:

What should managers and organisations be responsible for?

In this assignment you need to:

Clearly respond to the above question

Engage with or draw upon the ideas of Fink and Chalmers (see previous slide)

Use the essential lecture reading from week 3 (Santos, F. M., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (2005). Organizational Boundaries and Theories of Organization. Organization Science, 16(5), 491508. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25145988) to help inform your answerPick one of the following unit topics to focus your response to the question:

Ethics

Corporate Social Responsibility

Technology and management

Select one organisation to support your response to the questionFinally, at the end of your essay you need to write a 120 word self-reflection on how the essay did or did not change your understanding of the role of management and organisations (the 120 words does not count toward your total word count)

In developing your answer to the essay question you must use relevant management and organisational theory and other academic material. Your essay should contain at least 8 high quality, and relevant academic references (i.e. peer reviewed journals, books and textbooks). Here are some relevant articles to help you on your way:

Here are some academic sources ((from high quality journals) to help you on your way:

Rhodes, C., & Fleming, P. (2020). Forget political corporate social responsibility.Organization,27(6), 943-951.

Hussain, W., & Moriarty, J. (2018). Accountable to whom? Rethinking the role of corporations in political CSR. Journal of Business Ethics, 149, 519-534.

Fan, J. S. (2019). Woke capital: The role of corporations in social movements. Harv. Bus. L. Rev., 9, 441.

Carroll, A. B. (2021). Corporate social responsibility: Perspectives on the CSR constructs development and future.Business & Society,60(6), 1258-1278.

Formatting Guideline:

1800 words (10% plus or minus i.e. no more than 1980 words an no less then 1620 words)

12-point font

Please use Calibri or Times Roman Fonts

Normal page margins (2.54cm for all)

Give your essay a headingUse subheadings if you wishReferencing: APA Referencing Style in-text citations and full reference in the reference list at the end of the essay.

Reference list must be at the end of the essay (the reference list is not included in your word count)