Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Question 1What are big companies doing in order to be more socially responsible?Question 2How important it is to be socially responsible?
And do you think it is still possible to make a social impact during the recession? Answer 1AMID the gloomy economic out-look, big businesses are not cutting down on their Corporate Social Responsibility (csp) programmes.Companies have stepped up their efforts according to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Asia, a Hong Kong based firm. This programme is often defined as how strategically manage their businesses to bring in profits.Sing Tel`s CSR programme is divided into 4 parts: Community which supports initiatives focusing on youth and education; environment, which aims to reduce carbon emmissions and cut down on paper usage; Market place which involves corporate governance; and workplace, which provides learning and development opportunities and quality work-life balances for it staff. McDonald is trying to get sustainable supply chain, environmental and community responsibility, nutrition and well being and employment are equally important as philanthropic activities.Major businesses here are also committed to raising funds for charities despite the downturn
Answer 2It is very important to be socially responsible as if all the companies are not socially responsible it would be terrible, all the companies would`nt care about the environment and care only about their profit.
Yes i think it is possible to make a social impact during a recession as their are many company making a social impact during a recession. I think they are able to do that because they are doing well or they want to make a social impact for some reasons.
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