Thursday, April 16, 2009
term 2 week 4
Businesses are still big on doing good(Part B – Home Section – Page B6 – The Home Market)1)Q1)What are big companies doing in order to be more socially responsible?
They not cutting down on their Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) who is one of the so -called project of being socially responsible. For Sing Tel,they support CSR by initiatives focusing on youth, education and environment.for environment they are cutting down carbon emission and the cutting down they use of paper..This includes teaching they children over there and build basketball court in some rural areas.Big companies chose to make the risk to make a social impact without the need to spend large amounts of money. This perspective has not considered the social and ethical dimensions of organizational resources. The main objective of the article is to show that business can be profitable and socially responsible at the same time.
Q2)How important it is to be socially responsible? And do you think it is still possible to make a social impact during the recession?
Socially responsible is part of our life as Social responsibility is an ethical or ideological theory that an entity whether it is a government, corporation, organizationor individual has a responsibility to society. This responsibility can be "negative", meaning there is a responsibility to refrain from acting (resistance stance) or it can be "positive," meaning there is a responsibility to act (proactive stance). so it is very important , nothing is impossible if you do it correctly and at all times, even the chances are slim there is still hopes.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009