Abstract
Business
firms are normally expected to produce and
contribute consumer’s goods and services. This study is designed to examine the
role of social responsibility of public organization. In other to achieve this
purpose, primary and secondary sources of data were relied upon. Information
was gathered from textbooks, journals, news papers and library archive. Chi-square
statistical tool was used to analyze and test the hypothesis and simple random
method was used to present and analyze data. It was observed that some organizations
are socially responsible while others are yet to play their expected role in
this area. It was therefore concluded that social responsibility is a necessary
task that should be undertaken to the host community. It was recommended among
others that public enterprise should employ indigenes of the community where
they are operating as means of reducing crime in the community.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgements iv
Abstract v
Table of
Contents vi
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study 1
1.2 Statement of Problem 2
1.3 Research Questions 2
1.4 Objectives of the Study 3
1.5 Statement of Hypotheses 4
1.6 Significance of the Study 5
1.7 Scope
of the Study 6
1.8 Limitations of the Study 6
1.9
Definition
of Terms 7
Chapter
Two: Literature Review
2.1
Introduction 8
2.2
History of Edo Cement Company Limited 10
2.3 The Impact of Industries on its Physical
Environment 15
2.4 Factors
Responsible for Social Responsibility
Behaviour 15
2.5 Corporate
Social Responsibility 17
2.6 Social
Responsibility 19
2.7 Responsibility to Government 22
2.8 Demand
for Social Responsibility 23
2.9 Evaluating
Social Responsibility 25
2.10 Developing a Management Strategy for Social
Responsibility 26
2.11 Conflict Between Shareholders Wealth Maximization
and Business Social Responsibility 28
2.12 Impact
of Social Responsibility to the Customer
29
2.13 Impact of Social Responsibility to the Public
at
Large 30
Chapter Three: Research
Method and Design
3.1 Introduction
32
3.2 Research
Design 32
3.3 Description of Population of the Study 33
3.4
Sample Size 33
3.5 Sampling Technique 34
3.6 Sources of Data Collection 34
3.7 Method
of Data Presentation 35
3.8
Method of Data Analysis 35
Chapter Four: Data
Analysis, Presentation and Interpretation
4.1 Introduction
37
4.2
Data
Presentation 38
4.3 Data Analysis 38
4.4 Hypotheses Testing 48
Chapter Five: Summary
of Findings, Conclusion and
Recommendations
5.1 Introduction
57
5.2 Summary
of Findings 57
5.3 Conclusion 58
5.4 Recommendations 59
References 61
Appendix I 62
Appendix II 63
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background to the Study
Business firms are normally expected to
produce and distribute consumer’s goods and services. That is their basic role.
In connection with performing that role,
employees are expected to have their salaries on time and owners expecting
dividends.
However, there are other
responsibilities that the business meets. The business is expected to meet the
people’s need by providing for them things like good road, networks, school,
health centers, borehole for water, recreational facilities sport e.g. football
team etc.
Under normal circumstances, a business operates
in an environment shared by other human activities and the organization as a
corporation is bound to have an influence on the normal happenings to the lives
of the people surrounding it.
In a nutshell, should corporations or
business in general concern themselves primarily with attainment of profit for
its shareholders or should they embark on solving the people’s problem such as
that of polution, sanitation etc all these shave to be put into consideration.
1.2 Statement
of Problem
As it were social responsibility in
public enterprise has not been fully carried out by individual, firms and
public enterprise. This is as a result of corporate failure between employers
and employees, firms and their immediate environment and failures of the
immediate community to discharge their duties in making sure that the location
of public enterprises are conducive for business purposes.
1.3 Research
Questions
1. What
are the impacts of industry on its physical environment?
2. What
are the factors responsible for social responsibility behaviour?
3. What
are the responsibilities of public enterprise to government?
4. To
what extent has the demand for social responsibility affected the economy.
5. What
are the impacts of social responsibility to the public at large?
1.4 Objectives
of the Study
This study is intended to accomplish the
following:
1. To
highlight the importance of social responsibility to the employee and the
general public.
2. It helps to create
awareness about the responsibility a company owes the community in which it
operates.
3. It
enlightens the general public about the importance of social responsibility to
them.
4. It
serves as a medium of increasing the intellectual and thinking ability of the
students.
5. To
provide an avenue for assessing the performance of students, who have passed
out of this programme?
6. It
leads to the development of the community.
7. It
can also lead to rapid industrial growth and development
1.5 Statement
of Hypotheses
Hypothesis One
Ho: Social responsibility
does not contribute to the development of the economy.
HI: Social responsibility
contributes to the development of the economy.
Hypothesis
Two
Ho: Businesses are not
socially responsible to the government, customers and employers to their owner
and the public at large.
HI: Businesses are socially
responsible to the government, customers and employers to their owner and the
public at large.
Hypothesis
Three
Ho: Businesses are not
established to solve the problem of the society but to maximize profit to their
owners.
HI: Businesses are
established to solve the problem of the society but to maximize profit to their
owners.
1.6 Significance
of the Study
This work will benefit the Polytechnic
community and students in general, in the following ways:
i. It
will enable students or researchers acquire knowledge and better understanding
of this topic.
ii. It
will also enable employers to become more conscious of their duties especially
n terms of social responsibility of business enterprise.
iii. It
will help to generate a data or information in further research problems
iv. It
will help to point out and fill the gaps between the old and new knowledge.
v. It
will also help to promote peace and unity in the community.
vi. It
leads to the development of the community.
vii. It
can also lead to industrial growth and development.
1.7 Scope of the Study
This research work has been set out to
consider social responsibility and its implementation to public organization
with a particular reference to Edo State Cement Company Limited majority of
this work is merely a review of past literature textbooks, journal, newspapers
and lecture notes sources of information.
This study covers how social
responsibility is determined and patterns of social action programmes etc.
Finally, we will provide recommendation
on how increase social responsibility in public organization.
1.8 Limitations
of the Study
1. Inadequate records and data: There were inadequate records and data
that will enable the researcher get information for this work. There were also
no enough materials in the library and some of the information/materials
present are obsolete.
2. Source of literature that contains write up
on social responsibility was not much available to carryout this work.
3. Finance: There was lack of fund on the part
of the researcher to get the information/material required to carryout this research
work.
4.
This research work has also served as
a distraction to the researcher and also prevented them from attending
lectures.
1.9 Definition of Terms
Business:
A business is the
occupation, work or trade in which person is engaged, though it usually excludes
the professions.
Environment:
Is
the aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of an
individual or community.
Social
Responsibility: This can be defined as those duties
which an organization owes to the environment of its operation.
Customer: A person
that buys goods and services repeatedly from one source.
Profit:
The payment for sound judgement in the use of the factors of production. It is
also the payment of taking risk.
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