Category: Social Responsibility

What Does the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval Mean?

What is Good Housekeeping? Good Housekeeping (GH) started in 1885 as a magazine with a mission. “A mission to fulfill compounded of about equal portions of public duty and private enterprise… to produce and perpetuate…

Rio, An Olympic Nightmare

Political corruption, environmental disaster, pathogen infestation, financial ruin, terrorists threats, and drug lords: Let the games begin. When the Olympic committee voted to award the 2016 Olympics to a city that has the dubious distinction…

5 Basics To Protect Your Health During A Pandemic

This year, 2020, will be remembered, unfortunately, as the year of this horrific pandemic, which has seen over 50 million worldwide cases, and over 10 million cases in the United States, as well as about…

An Advertiser’s Responsibility To Respect Social Sensitivities

An advertiser is required to produce advertisements to market and promote the product(s) of the firm he is employed by. The medium of advertisement can be print, electronic, or the most current medium, social media.…

6 Actions Needed By All, To Beat This Pandemic!

When, we witness, more Americans, dying, every day, from this pandemic, than died, from the atrocities, of September 11, 2001, and, many people, still, seem, unwilling to commit, to the necessary degree of personal responsibility/…

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – Corporate Governance Models

Corporate governance models There are a number of variations of the CSR model in practice across the globe. If we can imagine a linear scale moving from left to right, Stakeholder (excluding shareholders) interests on…

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – Don’t Kill a Forest

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – Don’t Kill a Forest, Plant a Tree. Corporate Responsibility in Action An interesting example of social responsibility by a corporation is that of the Oxford English Dictionary, commonly known as…

More Than Just Music and Stunts – A Corporate Social Responsibility

Despite the fact that the main focus of the Vans Warped Tour happens to be on putting up great music for the people, but raising concern about environment issues has also been an equally important…

Proto-Virtual Reality and Social Media

Embodied in statements like “let’s take a break”, “perspective psychology”, and “a government of citizens” is a complexity which often escapes popular media. Yet as media develops with the convergence of social media and technology…

Helicopter Parenting – What is it and Where Does it Come From?

Helicopter parenting is a relatively new term in our cultural lexicon. It refers to today’s cultural tendency to parent with a keen eye towards protecting our children from any and all potential sources of harm,…