2. Material and Methods
2.1. Corporate social responsibility
The concept of responsible leadership is a combination of two terms: (1) social responsibility (with much attention devoted to the possible relationship between corporate social responsibility practices and company performance and (2) leadership (focused largely on internal, one-on-one relationship between leaders and followers) (Waldman, 2011).
The idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) manifests itself in the fact that organizations, while pursuing their own goals, also have in mind the welfare of their employees, customers, local communities and other stakeholders. Organizations affect the socio-economic development of the region or country; they affect the quality of work and life of individuals, communities and entire societies" (Borkowska, 2005).
Undoubtedly, the beginning of the activities related to corporate social responsibility was applying fundamental ethical and moral values in business. CSR cannot exist disregarding ethics and morality. This desire to improve the human existence and the environment resulted in establishing rules and codes of ethics. Currently, ethics programmes make ethics in business of strategic importance. Companies are aware that corporate social responsibility benefits society and the company itself. So the companies shape their mission and goals in such a way that the principles of CSR are obeyed. Elements of ethical programmes include: mission, code of ethics, professional standards and they comprise such factors as: determining the mission of corporations, defining ethical and