Businesses are still big on doing good(Part B - Home Section - Page B6 - The Home Market)
Q1) What are big companies doing in order to be more socially responsible?
Q2)How important it is to be socially responsible? And do you think it is still possible to make a social impact during recession?
ANSWER
Q1)Big businesses are not cutting down on their Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) programmes. However, some companies have even stepped up their efforts to fulfill their corporate social responsibilities. According to CSR Asia, Hong Kong-based firm which aims to promote good corporate citizenship in this region. Communications group Sing-Tel's CSR programme is divided into four quadrants: Community, which supports initiatives focusing on youth and education; Environment; which aims to reduce carbon emmisions and cut down on paper usage; Marketplace, which involves corporate governance; and Workplace, which provides learning and development opportunities and quality work-life balance for its staff. Companies are increasingly realising that CSR is not philanthropy and there are many ways to make a social impact without the need to spend large amounts of money.
Q2) Social responsible can help us continue work in a company and work towards a sustainable future, because it can help the company to earn more money. Sustainable supply chain, environment and communityy responsibility, nutrition and well-being and employment experience are equally important as philanthropic activites. If a company doesn't have social responsible do you think that people will work for the company and do customers want to buy thing from the company? Of course not, why because social responsible is very important. Yes, i think it is still possible to make a social impact during recession.
