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The social responsibility of manager The concept of social responsibility in the simplest sense means that you are responsible not just for doing what you feel like doing, but for ensuring that your actions are responsible to the community, whether local or global. In other terms, it refers to the obligation of organization, to seek actions that protect and improve the welfare of society along with its own interests (Bartol & Martin, 1994). This definition assumes that your goal is to have a positive effect, rather than a harmful and self-serving one, on the greater community. Robbins (1994) classified manager's social responsibility into classic view and socioeconomic view. The classic view, which is purely economic, stands the idea that profits maximizing is the only social responsibility of manager. On the other side, the socioeconomic view, is supported, that manager's social responsibility goes well beyond making of profits to include protecting and...

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