Socially Responsible Behavior at Workplace Submitted by Huda Masood

Socially Responsible Corporate Behavior

Incorporating social commitment to business world entails beyond good will and formidable management. It requires adjustments in organizations, accounting inter-organization alliance, and most of all a mindset that comprehends the need of demonstration of social justice at corporations. Most organizations have done next to nothing with embracing philanthropy to administration. Managing societal setbacks by constructing shared goals will result in rolling sets of solution that do not depend on government or private endowment. Competing values need to be evened out and conciliated by some kind of ethic regulatory program. Modern consultants need more practical and managerial tools to understand their values and how to administer them. After a few years research, I have come to the conclusion that modern workplace deals with a fast-paced, and demanding environment with rigorous market. It intensifies the inter-corporate competition due to ever heightening trends of globalization. A socially responsible behavior can be extremely rewarding for not just employees and management but also the rest of the society. Hierarchy at work place leads to a Dominator System which leads to authoritarian culture. Vertically moving organizations aggressively institutionalize male domination, glass ceiling effect, and other discriminatory violence. On the contrary, Partners System promotes an environment of trust and dedication. It offers pliable structural hierarchy at workplace. This system is driven by care and intends to revolutionize the face of organizational world. It suggests that organizations attention should be substituted from solely profit driven to social sensitivity in order to gain a repute of liable corporate citizen. One of the modern definitions of CSR by World Bank states that it is the engagement of business to fork out the well preserved economic growth by working with the staffers, their families, and even locale neighborhood. The aim is to improve peoples lives in ways thats good not just for company but also the larger societal development. Unless the ethics and values underlying the business world are addressed, there will be no systematic change. Social responsibility can be implemented at workplace just like it can be a part of ones life at personal level. I am convinced that experiencing financial opulence doesnt suffice in excelling the business world. All ramifying agents associated with corporation need to be kept in mind before making major decisions. I think it is doable and it just needs awareness and an ability to see beyond individualized interests. As a socially responsible consultant, I would like to start with reviewing the organizations policies, and its running repercussion on society and natural environment. I would also try to make relevant the principles of sustainability to the mode of conducting business. A few reasons why I am convinced that a socially responsible workplace can improve the productivity by changing employees attitudes toward team spirit are reduced stress leading to decreased absenteeism, increased employee operating efficiency, and building a healthier workplace. I envision the socio-cultural displacement directing to work-life balance and employee contentment. New zeitgeist is ruled by increasing human capital value. This generation of workers is happy to work extra for less paycheck as long as they find a meaning in it. One challenge that psychology practitioners face in implementing CSR, is their limitation to take reasonable steps to prevent the occurrence of undesirable incident. The level of effectiveness of the psychologist depends on whether the psychologist is an employee to an organization or a consultant to it. An employee for an instance can report to the HR manager, or the CEO regarding an unfair evaluation or invalid test. On the other hand, its not reasonable for a

Socially Responsible Behavior at Workplace Submitted by Huda Masood

consultant to complain or even notify the CEO about the invalid selection instrument. Although corporate would be sapiential to construct a physical and psychological expanse that holds the common emotion, it can sometimes be extremely challenging for personnel to demonstrate its true meaning. I would like to compare two organizations that have shifted the paradigms of social responsibility to their professions. Body Shop was one of the very few companies that campaigned for green issues way before it became in vogue. It also brought into public attention, socio-economical affairs that had never been spoken for on large scale. One of its remarkable regime encompassed self esteem boost and criticizing media against stereotyping the glamorous perspective of women as being unrealistically skinny. To this day, Body Shop takes pride in selling nature inspired supplies at reasonable prices and its tag line says; Ethically Produced Products. On the other hand, IKEA Germany has been accused of employing prison labour in their adjacent factories to keep their prices low. Workers have been reported to work in unsafe work settings without any assembled seats on the machines, hearing protection, or gloves. Although the company director refuses to comment on these charges, just the depiction of work conditions say a lot about the nature of employer despite the fact where they were getting their labour from. As a potential psychologist I am perceptive of a term like corporation. I dont see it just as a licit object assembled to illustrate a groups endeavors. I believe there is no disparity between customers and employees of a corporation. I would like to work on renouncing the convenient boundary between us and them. I think it directly influences my career choice because as a consultant, mentor, or even a manager of an organization, I can scrutinize the archives to study past successes and failures trends and manifest the power of people working together to overcome the barriers of limited resources or other local restrictions.