The impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities on British American Tobacco (BAT) from the public's perspective / Nor Raihana Asmar Mohd Noor
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plays an important role to the public. Organizations should emphasize more on CSR activities not only focusing to achieve higher profit for the organization. In addition, they must also be concerned about other ethical elements such as workplace, marketplace,...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12026/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12026/1/TM_NOR%20RAIHANA%20ASMAR%20MOHD%20NOOR%20AM%2013_5%201.pdf |
| Summary: | Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plays an important role to the public. Organizations should
emphasize more on CSR activities not only focusing to achieve higher profit for the organization. In
addition, they must also be concerned about other ethical elements such as workplace, marketplace,
community and environment in ensuring the sustainability of the organization whilst strengthening the
intangible value of the company such as corporate image, customer's purchasing intention, attracting
potential employees, loyalty and commitment from customers. This study aims to (i) examine the
level of awareness of the public on British American Tobacco (BA I)'s CSR activities from
demographic perspective; (ii) determine the relationship between community activities and impact of
CSR on BAT; (iii) determine the relationship between environment activities and impact of CSR on
BAT; (iv) determine the relationship between workplace activities and impact of CSR on BAT; (v)
determine the relationship between marketplace activities and impact of CSR on BAT. The scope of
this study covers the public in Shah Alam, Selangor. This study employs a cross sectional survey to
investigate the impact of CSR activities on BAT from the public's perspective. This study uses
several statistical techniques such as the descriptive statistics, correlations and regression. The results
of the study show that there are significant relationship between community and workplace activities
and the impact of CSR activities, negative relationship between marketplace and the impact of CSR
activities and no relationship between environment activities and the impact of CSR. |
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