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The benefits of pursuing a strategy of social responsibility and corporate citizenship include:AnsThe positive impact that such a strategy has on the company's image rating, provided the company spends a meaningful amount on socially responsible activities and such spending is sustained over a multi-year period. If a company's managers If a company's manager wants to succeed in creating a differentiation based on competitive advantage (and a potential cost advantage in achieving this differentiation) that is difficult for rivals to quickly or easily copy (because every strategy move a company makes to outcompete rivals and gain a competitive advantage is not apparent from information contained in the FIR and the competitive intelligence report), then manages have to Ansdo a better job than rivals in identifying and implementing ways to become very cost efficient in producing and marketing 350 to 500 models/styles of branded footwear that also have the highest S/Q rating in the industry. Valid reasons to consider building a new plant in Latin America include Anslower tariff on footwear sales in LA (because no import tariffs are paid on footwear produced at the LA plant and shipped to the distribution warehouse in LA) A company stands a better chance of achieving cost-based competitive advantage over rivals if its managers Anspursue a number of cost-reducing initiatives that can be concealed from rivals (because such initiatives are not part of the information contained in the FIR and Competitive Intelligence Reports) - are successful in identifying what actions promote greater cost efficiency across all aspects of company operations and in actually achieving the cost-reducing opportunity without overspending to do so, while many rivals also striving to win a low-cost advantage fall short in their efforts to achieve matching cost reductions. Which of the following does NOT help a company's social responsibility strategy results in a higher image rating Ansspending additional money on celebrity endorsements and advertising to help inform the general public about the company's good deeds in being a good corporate citizen and its socially responsible activities - reducing the prices the company charges its customers for branded footwear Some social responsibility and citizenship actions have a bigger positive impact on your company's Image Rating than do others.AnsThe biggest impacts relate to "green" footwear materials and charitable contributions, not so much because they are "more important" than the other four as because they are more visible to the public (and can entail bigger dollar expenditures). It makes good economic sense for company managers to consider investing $3.5 mil /mil pairs of capacity for a plant facilities upgrade that will boost labor productivity by 25%AnsAt plant that currently has labor productivity of 3,200 pairs/worker and total employee compensation of $20,000 annually because the upgrade will cause labor costs/pair produced to decline from $6.25 to $5.00 Labor costs/pair = 20,000/3,200 = $6.25 After increase in productivity = 20,000/(3,200*1.25) = $5.00 Reduction = $1.25 - boost at a plant where $18,000 for 3,000 pairs vs. $4,000 for same 3,000.