Corporate responsibility to help solve social problems
Corporations have their employees at work for a great percentage
of their waking life. These employees are a captive audience for information
(wellness promotion/health fairs) and redirection for a better society. Increasingly,
workplaces are developing social responsibility for fundraising to support
agencies actively involved in addressing social problems. There is an opportunity
for increased and continued resourceful support by the workforce, as they
reach out to the extended community for financial support for their fundraising
projects, as well as their effort to implement corporate driven strategies
for social change.
To a certain extent corporations have, for the benefit of productivity and
profit, created some of the lifestyles that are a root cause of some of our
current social dilemmas. I regret making this point when corporations have
also created many positive factors of benefit to the lifestyle of communities.
Just as the workplace is an obvious focal point for social change to be encouraged,
so are our schools for the youth. Unfortunately our youth tend to live out
the more negative behaviours/attributes of their life examples shown by the
generation before them, resulting in increased frequency and severity of social
breakdown. The many youth who "rise above their rais'n " as Dr. Phil says,
or the youth who have chosen to follow in the fine social responsibility of
their mentors, do have their work cut out for them to further develop - by
example and promotion - the healthy social behaviours.
-- Brenda D. Murray, RN COHN
Port Stanley, ON
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