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For the duration of this experiment, imagine you are a manager at a consumer products company. The company has begun emphasizing the importance of social responsibility (i.e., doing good for the community, environment, and/or employees), and has started a program to increase its participation in socially responsible activities. One of the company’s goals is to engage in more corporate social responsibility and improve its social responsibility ranking compared to other companies in the industry. The rankings are compiled by an independent rating agency annually and are based on both the amount the company spends on socially responsible activities and on the social impact of those activities. The rankings are important because they may affect how the company is perceived by the community, investors, and the company’s own employees.
There are five managers, including you, in your company. The five managers in your company will consist of you and the other four participants sitting near you in the same color group. All five managers will be making the same decisions for four identical performance periods (following one practice period).
As a manager, you are responsible for choosing how to use a discretionary budget provided by the company. In each period, you will have a $6 budget. You can choose to invest any amount of the $6 in socially responsible projects, which can result in a payment to a charity of your choice. Any portion of the budget that you do not invest in these projects will be kept for your own use.
Details on the socially responsible projects are provided on the following screens.