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Marketing and Society: Social Responsibility and Marketing Ethics

Marketing and Society: Social Responsibility and Marketing Ethics. Chapter 20. Objectives. Know the major social criticisms of marketing. Be able to define consumerism and environmentalism and know how they affect marketing strategies. Learn the principles of socially responsible marketing.

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Marketing and Society: Social Responsibility and Marketing Ethics

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  1. Marketing and Society: Social Responsibility and Marketing Ethics Chapter 20

  2. Objectives • Know the major social criticisms of marketing. • Be able to define consumerism and environmentalism and know how they affect marketing strategies. • Learn the principles of socially responsible marketing. • Learn the role of ethics in marketing.

  3. Only used organic fruits and hormone-free milk Bought from socially disadvantaged and minority suppliers Donated 7.5% of pretax profits to good causes Natural-ingredient based cosmetics formulated without animal testing Donated a percentage of profits to animal-rights groups and homeless shelters Case Study Ben & Jerry’s ... The Body Shop

  4. Growth and profits flattened for both firms in the 1990’s 2000: Ben & Jerry’s was acquired by Unilever; profit driven management is now in charge of the Body Shop. Lessons learned: What you sell is important Be proud to be in business Make a solid commitment to change Focus on two bottom lines Forget the hype Case Study Ben & Jerry’s ... The Body Shop

  5. Social Criticisms of Marketing • Marketing’s Impact on Individual Consumers • High Prices • High costs of distribution • High advertising and promotion costs • Excessive markups

  6. Social Criticisms of Marketing • Marketing’s Impact on Individual Consumers • Deceptive Practices • Pricing • Promotion • Packaging • High-Pressure Selling

  7. Social Criticisms of Marketing • Marketing’s Impact on Individual Consumers • Shoddy or Unsafe Products • Planned Obsolescence • Poor Service to Disadvantaged Consumers

  8. Social Criticisms of Marketing • Marketing’s Impact on Society as a Whole • False Wants and Too Much Materialism • Too Few Social Goods • Cultural Pollution • Too Much Political Power

  9. Social Criticisms of Marketing • Marketing’s Impact on Other Businesses • Acquisitions of Competitors • Marketing Practices • Creating Barriers to Entry

  10. Citizen & Public Actions to Regulate Marketing • Consumerism • Traditional Seller’s Rights • Traditional Buyer’s Rights • Additional Rights Proposed by Consumer Advocates • Each proposed right has led to more specific proposals by consumerists

  11. Citizen & Public Actions to Regulate Marketing • Environmentalism • Environmental Sustainability • Pollution prevention • Product stewardship • New environmental technology • Sustainability vision

  12. Citizen & Public Actions to Regulate Marketing • Public Actions to Regulate Marketing • Major legal issues affect every area of marketing management, including: • Selling and advertising decisions • Channel decisions • Product decisions • Packaging decisions • Price decisions • Competitive reaction decisions

  13. Consumer-Oriented Marketing Innovative Marketing Value Marketing Societal Marketing Sense-of-Mission Marketing Business Actions Toward Socially Responsible Marketing Enlightened Marketing

  14. Business Actions Toward Socially Responsible Marketing • Enlightened Marketing • Customer-Oriented Marketing: • Companies view and organize their marketing activities from the consumer’s point of view. • Innovative Marketing: • Companies seek real product and marketing improvements.

  15. Business Actions Toward Socially Responsible Marketing • Enlightened Marketing • Value Marketing: • Companies put most of their resources into value-building marketing investments. • Sense-of-Mission Marketing: • Companies define their mission in broad social terms rather than in narrow product terms.

  16. Business Actions Toward Socially Responsible Marketing • Enlightened Marketing • Societal Marketing: • Companies make marketing decisions by considering consumers’ wants, the company’s requirements, consumers’ long-run interests, and society’s long-run interests.

  17. Business Actions Toward Socially Responsible Marketing • Enlightened Marketing • Societal Classification of Products • Deficient products • Pleasing products • Salutary products • Desirable products

  18. Business Actions Toward Socially Responsible Marketing • Marketing Ethics • Corporate Marketing Ethics Policies • Guiding Principle in Policy Determination • Free market and legal system • Individual companies and managers • International Ethical Policies are a Special Challenge

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