Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Businesses are still big on doing good(Part B – Home Section – Page B6 – The Home Market)
1)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 supports CSR by initiatives focusing on youth and education and environment.for environment they are cutting down carbon emission and the cutting down they use of paper.They also set up a Sing Tel Touching Lives Funds who raised $2.2 million for the privileged children and youths.McDonald also make sure they does their part.They do this by making sure their food is safe.They also make sure they they did not buy beef or other food originating from the rainforest's land or recently deforested rain forest.For DBS they help this by sending their staff embarked over Asia.This includes teaching they children over there and build basketball court in some rural areas.
2)How important it is to be socially responsible? And do you think it is still possible to make a social impact during the recession?
- It is important to be socially responsible as a company because without the social there is no chances for the company to earn money so the company should repay the social by to a social responsible company.You will a great difference in the economy if the people didn't buy thing from the company or the company didn't care to spend some money and help to the people which represent the social.If the company be more responsibility in not only the work but the environment and economy or even the social many company will fall and the environment also will cause a great impact this will lead to more and more poor and more and more ill people around the world just because of the usage of non-biodegradable thing like metal and styrofoam which can produce toxic gases around of the world that cause population crash and lower birth and higher death rate around the world.
- As an individual,it is also important to be socially responsible.for an student ,we could study hard , get an diploma and help the nation or even the government next time when u grow up.for an adult we can volunteer our self to the needy and some other kind of organization when you are free.you can also suggest your idea of how to improve the world to the government or even online.
ii)i think yes if everyone even as the company do their job.like cutting the usage of paper planting for tree around the area ,donate money to the poor and needy,taking part in the earth day,take care of our self and our family in term of nutrition and health to reduce the number of sick people around the world or volunteer our self.You may think this is just a small effort but this a make a difference of the world.For the money part maybe we can't help much but once the financial problem is solve then it should be fine.the number of retrenchment also increase just because of the financial crisis but i think we should work together to solve this problem instead of thinking that u could happy-go-lucky everyday after the retrenchment or avoiding this problem like an rat.
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