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to a new business discipline called Corporate Social
Responsibility, the major ethical responsibilities of
a company in respect of its staff and the community
are:
- To serve society
with useful products and upon fair conditions.
- To generate
wealth in the most efficient way possible.
- To respect
human rights through fair and proper working conditions
so as to promote labor security and health as well
as the human and professional development of workers
- To secure the
company's continuity and, if possible, to achieve
a reasonable growth
- To respect
the environment avoiding, as much as possible, any
type of pollution through the minimization of the
waste generation and rationalizing the natural and
energy resources.
- To strictly
comply with all laws, regulations, customs and usages,
by performing legal contracts and the commitments
undertaken.
- To secure the
equitable distribution of the wealth generated.
The definition
may seem embracing and each of its points seem to have
already been stated in the objectives and values of
infoBIZ,
as well as in the purposes, views and missions that
we may read in the leaflets and websites of thousands
and thousands of companies.
Ethics is,
however, much more related to a question of everyday
life than to a theoretical one. Business ethics as it
is respected and applied by infoBIZ
can be perceived and verified in the relationships with
its Suppliers, Clients, contributors and employees.
It is much more than a theoretical question, it is a
practice performed action after action, day after day.
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There
is no definite place, every situation flows or
derives from what it is said, done, shown and
given as a sign of the quality of a relationship.
There is no friendship but messages of friendship,
there is no love but messages of love, there is
no hatred but messages of hatred; facts and gestures
make up an arithmetic that allow us to deduct,
according to what we have seen, the nature of
the relationship: friendship, love, camaraderie,
ethics, or otherwise... |
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Michel Onfray, French, Ph. D. in Philosophy,
founder of the first People's University of Philosophy. |
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