The Importance Of Social Responsibility

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Introduction Ethics are the morality of human to distinguish between the right or the wrong and making the right choices. It is a behaviour that promotes good values in humanity such as maintaining right relationships, being authentic as an individual and having the courage of doing the right things is right, instead of doing things right (The Ethics Centre, n.d.). Social responsibility is the civic duty of an individual to benefit the society as a whole in a way that the welfare of the society is concerned, as well as the environment is not harmed (Pachamama Alliance, n.d.). A business can be ethically and socially responsible when its business is operated in a business route without confidential which transparency is achieved, promoting business…show more content…
It is the business commitment to maximize the positive impact and minimize the negative impact towards society. Besides, social responsibility also means achieving sustainability in the concept of the quality triple bottom line that referred to people, planet and profit which profits can be achieved by not harming the planet or exploiting the people. Hence, businesses can be profitable but also contributing to the community and quality of life at the same time by planning the business programmes that involve the social benefits of the…show more content…
Businesses will be reputed as an important central force of economic development in a country not only because it leads the growth of GDP in a country but also has a huge responsibility to protect the environment. However most of the entrepreneurs on nowadays more tend to get greater profits rather than thinking over that their products may be brought harmful effects to the environment and lack awareness of environmental. Harmful effects that might bring businesses to the environment include air pollution, water pollution, land pollution and excesses of plastic bags. Thus, in order to fulfil business ethics and social responsibility, entrepreneurs should advocate some environmental friendly activities like "Go Green to Environment" and "Recycling" so as to enhance customer's environmental awareness because everyone is responsible for protecting the environment and the Earth. For instance, Tesco designs an eco-bag with a slogan of "The Natural Green Bag" to all of its customers in order to reduce the usage of plastic bags. While H&M starts to collect all the unwanted or wear out garments from its customers in 2013 in order to practice 3R which are the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The company distributes worldwide clothes that can be worn again, converts textiles that are no longer suitable to wear into other products like cleaning cloths and spun garments that can get a new chance as
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