Social Responsibility

Management’s Social Responsibility

• All social responsibility must be supported by top-management, or else others in the organization cannot be expected to be socially responsible.
• Executives in top management must commit the time and money necessary to make their organization socially responsible
• Commitment and Support
• Integrate environmental issues into their policies
• Awareness and training for employees
• Strong auditing programs

Corporate Viewpoint

• Most organizations realize that social responsibility must be a corporate lifestyle.
• Not all organizations participate in it.
• Organizations must be responsible for acting ethically, improving the quality of life of their workforces, their families, and broader society.

Corporate Viewpoint

• Organizations that are truly committed to meeting its social responsibilities, their commitments reflect their management decisions. It also monitors its efforts to ensure compliance.

Social Audit

• To make sure that an organization is compliant with its social responsibility initiatives they may complete a social audit.
• Social Audit: is a report on the social performance of a business or organization.
• Management should cite and reward people who contribute to successes.

How Can We Determine If Our Plans Are Socially Responsible?

• When in doubt, don’t!
• Do not try to find out “How far is too far.”
• Superiors who push you to do things better, faster, cheaper will turn on you when you, cross the line between right and wrong

Approaches to Social Responsibility

• Resistance Approach- actively fight to eliminate , delay, or fend off demands being made.
• Reactive Approach- a strategy in which businesses wait the for the demands to be made and then react to them, choosing to react to them by evaluating alternatives.