Ethical View

I have actually been musing as to what my first article would be all about and having spent a few sleepless nights it finally hit me. And so here we go.


The whole CSR practice is just part of Social Responsibility (SR) as a whole. The first failures to adhere to SR are those in leadership positions. They can classified as politicians, business leaders, religous leaders and various societal pivots.

Most of them by virtue of their offices have abused their positions purely for selfish reasons at the expense of the masses. How then do you explain the current global economic meltdown, famine in Africa, political unrest, religious intolerance, illogical military excursions, price riots over food, environmental destruction, unreasonable oil prices and unfavourable trading conditions between north and south or developed and underdeveloped. The list is by no means exhausted as I might as well add global warming and climate change in the picture.

This level of irresponsible stewardship cuts across all races, continents and creed and is indeed a grave threat to the core existence of the human race. It is actually naked greed in its bare form.

What actually fuels this unbridled and vulgar greed? More often than not the love of dollars, euros, pounds, pulas, rupees, rands, yen and shillings. Blinded by the quest for more and more our stewards have broken every available rule and prevented any other new ones from standing in their way. The result is pain and suffering for millions of people across the globe.

It is at this point that Social Responsibility must then be the driving force to ensure that we continue to exist in a sustainable world and that the decisions for our children and generations ahead must be in our hands and not in the hands of a minority who basically are irresponsible stewards.

Only then can we as a people be sure that the resources that we have on this earth will outlive generations and not the other way round.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Welcome.

Corporate Social Responsibilty (CSR) is a field that is taking more and more prominence in the way we do business today. I hope through this forum we can exchange information that will improve and enlighten CSR practioners and other interest groups.

Issues relating to the Ethical Audits, Standards, Environment, Health and Safety, Labour, Employment, Child Labour, Community Investment, Sustainability, Anti-Corruption and Suppliers/Contractors among others are more and more that are sharply in the focus.

I hope we will travel this journey together and become wiser in simply 'DOING THE RIGHT THING'.

After all it is our Social Responsibility to ensure that Mother Nature and her dependants are all happy.