Article Critique: Business Students Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility

Article Critique: "Business Students’ Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility."
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Article Critique: "Business Students’ Perceptions of Corporate Social Responsibility" by Julie Fitzpatrick.
This paper forms a critique for Julie Fitzpatrick’s article "business students’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility". The author is right to recognize the views of both proponents and critics of CSR as an organization management functions. Indeed the former believe that an organization is obligated to the larger society as ‘stakeholders’ while the later are of the opinion that an organization is obligated only to its owners or ‘shareholders’. The article bears a hypothesis that CSR goes beyond profit making for any given organization. This paper however focuses on Fitzpatrick’s finding regarding positive relationships between elements of gender, work experience and spirituality with CSR. It the author’s view, students are the business leaders of tomorrow; this statement is true nonetheless. However, their perception of the influence of work experience on CSR and ethics stands to be easily misguided considering they are yet to set foot into full time work environments, the article would rather had placed focus on practicing managers instead. As such, the results and responses of junior students require much caution in interpreting them. This paper hence argues that the sample and or respondents are highly extraneous and that a very limited and somewhat irrelevant number of independent variables were investigated in the article.
As far as business education courses are concerned, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a major subject matter for consideration as an element of Organizational Culture, which the author fails to emphasize, let alone mention. Is must be understood that the foundations of an organization’s culture serves as a determinant for the rationale of professional behavior and stockholders (owners) and stakeholders’ (society) views of CSR and corporate ethics.
Fitzpatrick is however inappropriately in support of the philosophy that female students have higher...