Global Strategy 3rd Edition by Mike Peng

Exercise 5

ON ETHICS: Your CPA firm is organizing a one-day-long CSR activity using company time, such as cleaning up a dirty road or picking up trash on the beach. A colleague tells you: "This is so stupid. I already have so much unfinished work. Now to take a whole day away from work? Come on! I don't mind CSR. If the company is serious about CSR, why don't they donate one day of my earnings, which I am sure will be more than the value I can generate by cleaning up the road or picking up trash? With that money, they can just hire someone to do a better job than I would." What are you going to say to her? (Your colleague makes $73,000 a year and on a per-day basis she makes $200.)