Zarathushtra and Corporate Social Responsibility
Adriyan, Arvin (2015)
Adriyan, Arvin
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015120218992
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015120218992
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Implementing ancient wisdom, in order to bring new achievements and improvements in social science has been always taken into consideration by different writers, scholars, as well as stu-dents. In this period of time that through variety of ways knowledge is widely accessible, wisdom coming out of an ancient thought provoking book of Zarathushtra called ‘The Gathas’; has be-come attractive to many scientists, scholars, and experts in different fields such as Organizational Management. On the other hand, topic of Corporate Social Responsibility is constantly becoming more important topic in different organizations, companies, and countries across the world. There are many common aspects, in CSR topic and the teachings of Zarathushtra such as taking care of nature, animal welfare, organizational aspect, leadership, social responsibility, human rights, genders’ right equality, and globalization.
In this work, some common aspects in Zarathushtra’s taught related to CSR have been revealed and emphasized. Afterwards, a research has been done in order to find out; to what extent one chosen organization is going parallel to the teachings of Zarathushtra. As this work is a Bachelor thesis and who is working on it, is a student of Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Leppävaara campus; therefore the chosen organization is also Leppävaara campus of Laurea UAS. Due to the fact that CSR as well as Zarathushtra’s worldview each of them is very broad, hence in this work only three aspects including Environmental, Social, and Organizational aspects have been taken into consideration.
To answer the research question -to what extent Leppävaara campus of Laurea UAS is going par-allel to the teachings of Zarathushtra? -, author of this thesis conducted online questionnaires as well as face to face interviews; among numbers of students and faculties of Leppävaara campus. At the end, results revealed that Leppävaara campus of Laurea University of Applied Sciences is going parallel to Zarathushtra’s teachings and worldview to a very good extent. There are still rooms for improvement concerning to environmental, social, and organizational responsibility. But, on the other hand; this campus’s strengths are that this campus is taking constructive steps and it is putting good efforts in order to reach better performance regarding to environmental, social, and organizational aspects.
In this work, some common aspects in Zarathushtra’s taught related to CSR have been revealed and emphasized. Afterwards, a research has been done in order to find out; to what extent one chosen organization is going parallel to the teachings of Zarathushtra. As this work is a Bachelor thesis and who is working on it, is a student of Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Leppävaara campus; therefore the chosen organization is also Leppävaara campus of Laurea UAS. Due to the fact that CSR as well as Zarathushtra’s worldview each of them is very broad, hence in this work only three aspects including Environmental, Social, and Organizational aspects have been taken into consideration.
To answer the research question -to what extent Leppävaara campus of Laurea UAS is going par-allel to the teachings of Zarathushtra? -, author of this thesis conducted online questionnaires as well as face to face interviews; among numbers of students and faculties of Leppävaara campus. At the end, results revealed that Leppävaara campus of Laurea University of Applied Sciences is going parallel to Zarathushtra’s teachings and worldview to a very good extent. There are still rooms for improvement concerning to environmental, social, and organizational responsibility. But, on the other hand; this campus’s strengths are that this campus is taking constructive steps and it is putting good efforts in order to reach better performance regarding to environmental, social, and organizational aspects.