CSR Case Studies

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Many companies, both national and international, are involved in Corporate Social Responsibility. A detailed study of them reveals the fact that these companies have used creative and different techniques in order to do CSR. Their innovative approaches towards CSR have helped the society and its people in many good ways. This article will tell you about many of the companies that are involved in CSR. It will deal with their main aims, their methods of working, as well as the result of their work. CSR is done not only for the good of the society; it serves to the needs of the company as well.

 

Case studies of a few companies and their CSR Projects

 

Medtronic

Medtronic is a multinational company. It takes the help of professionals in the medical field and involve in various research in order to cure chronic diseases. It also involves in therapeutic procedures for the patients, for various illnesses. Medtronic has been involved in CSR, where it has taken the use of energy efficient methods. Reducing the use of energy has been the main aim of the company. The main methods used by the company are sustainable use of products, managing the risks of using various products, as well as reducing the use of excess amount of energy as much as possible. These all aim to reduce to impact of the products of the company on the environment.

Establishing this notion of efficient use of energy has not been easy for the company. Convincing the people of the various favorable results of these methods has been a hectic job. This was one of the major challenges that Medtronic workers had to face when working on this project. The company had to be very careful as to keep their basic objectives in place and focus on the project objectives as well. As a recognized global company it just could not affords to go wrong anywhere.

This project has brought Medtronic a lot of accolades and award, recognizing it as one the ‘green’ companies of the world.

 

State Street

This is one of the major financial companies of the world, which provide services to clients all over the world, on various fields like managing investments, trade and research on various products, as well as service on investments. This company is operational across twenty-six countries and provides its services to about a hundred markets in the world.

State Street started with its unique CSR services with the help of the method of a certainly different technique of producing ‘energy from waste’. This project of the company was started in the year 2010. It teamed up with a recycling company known as the Nordic Recycling limited. The task of this company is to collect wastes and then go forward to send it to SELCHP, which helps to recover energy from these wastes. This waste is produced for the communities that are situated in London.

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Being a financial company, where none of its services will impact the environment, it is commendable on the part of the company for going on to a friendly approach to the environment. It achieved a clean chit, due to the methods applied on the land-filling techniques. The efforts of this company have helped in the reduction of the dependence of the people on non-renewable sources of energy like fossil fuels. It has also reduced the amount of wastes that were being sent to the landfilling and dumping grounds and has encouraged the use of renewable sources of energy like the solar energy and the wind energy.

 

Symantec

Symantec is one of the widely known software companies of the world. It provides space for over twenty thousand employees. It is operational in fifty countries of the world. Symantec is a leading provider of the customer services. It deals with individual customers, providing help to them for storing, and various solutions on their managements. Not only does it provide help to individual customers, but it also helps small as well as large business firms as well. It helps them to store their information without any danger being caused to them.

Symantec has sought the technique of ‘green IT’ for its CSR. This means, it aims to improve the standard of the environment by using only as much amount of energy as it is needed. IT companies are solely based on technology. Their methods effect the environment in a large way. Symantec had taken a step further to resolve this issue by the use of alternative techniques. Using friendly techniques not only reduce the cost of energy, it also lowers the level of carbon dioxide emission in the environment as well.

Provide accurate data in order to undertake the project of reducing carbon dioxide has been a source of challenge for Symantec.

Success was at its doorstep. Now, Symantec focuses on other such issues.

 

Teck

Teck is a leading mining company of the world. It involves in mining various resources which include copper, zinc, coal used for steel making, as well as energy. It is one of the most diverse companies involved in resource field.

Being a company involved in mining business, it has experienced the impacts of the business and mining activities that are directly on the environment.  Teck has thus fore taken a measure in order to reduce the impacts caused by the environment as much as possible. In order to achieve this goal, tack had issued a manual. The goals of the company primarily focused on six key areas. One of the areas was biodiversity and ecosystems. The manual of the company describes in detail, the important degrading factors that effect the environment at each mining stage.

Limiting all these was a major task of Teck. It has undergone many changes in the years of its operation. It has also earned recognition for its work.

 

Thus, CSR works have helped the companies, take initiatives in improving the quality of the environment in years to come. With major issues like global warming banging on our doors, these are but small steps in order to achieve a major goal in future.

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