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Tata Power:
Corporate social responsibility
and sustainability
BY
GROUP F2
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
To establish a separate corporate social responsibility department or modify the prevailing
system to maintain a balance between stakeholders concern as well as long term sustainability
of organization.
EXTERNAL ANALYSIS:
FACTORS
POLITICAL:
High emphasis on Public
Private partnership
Statutory provisions to
fulfil CSR responsibility
Privatization of power
sector to cater increasing
demand of power
Economic Factors:
Standardization of
accounting procedures
US market deregulation
Social Factors:
Technological Factors:
Dot-com Boom
Cultural Factors:
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IMPACT
Need to involve society in the organisational initiatives, hence need
to change the CSR activities to get angle of inclusion
Legal factors:
1.Deregulation of various
sectors
2.Changes in legal
standards
SWOT ANALYSIS
Strength
Weakness
substantial
communities
Dependence on NGOs
Expansion of business may render
experience
conservation projects
Employee
Motivation
pertaining to CSR
3 Cs initiative
Well defined 3 step process
CSR activities
MOU with NGO
in
various
initiatives
Opportunity
NGO collaboration
The CSR initiatives may lead to higher
efficiency
Goodwill increase
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Threat
Negative perception
decrease in the control over the
initiatives
Increase in bargaining power of
NGOs
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Option 2
1. Coexistence of NGOS and CSR department with equal stakes in the initiatives.
2. Would enable company to carry out future initiatives after expansion is carried out.
3. Provide Tata power with expertise and convenience of implementation
4. Would help companys reputation with local committees with NGOs acting as a bridge
Option 3
1. Improve the existing system to perform CSR activities in collaboration of NGOs and
PBOs
2. TPC and other agencies can synergies their efforts to attain a common in more cost
efficient way. It can be done in the following way:
3. Selection: Employees having prior experience in specific areas will choose relevant
NGOs or PBOs to work with.
4. Motivation: People involved will be suitably awarded, even if the person is not the
employee of TPC. Lax in the work will attract penalties
Recommendation
The recommendation will be Option 2 Coexistence of NGOS and CSR department with
equal stakes in the initiatives due to the following reasons
Reason 1
With the current acquisition and expansion plans, a focused initiative by forming
a separate department would enable TPC to carry out required future CSR
Reason 2
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initiatives and help them deal with community issues more methodologically
Reduce dependence of Company on NGOs , a balance between companys
the requisite expertise while the company develops internal expertise in CSR issues.
Once such an expertise is developed, the involvement of NGOs can be gradually
reduced
The stakeholders should be conveyed the strategic importance of this whole process..
They should be conveyed the long term benefits such as increase in the company image
in the business environment which will ultimately lead to increase in shareholders value
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