GGSR Week 2 13
GGSR Week 2 13
WEEK 6
Programs for Sustainable Education
Department of Interior and Local • Education improvements and
Government (SGLG): The Seal of Good services that would provide fair
Local Governance Act of 2019 access to quality education must be
• It is an award, incentive, honor and implemented by the LGU.
recognition-based program for all
LGUs and an ongoing effort for LGUs
to advance, strengthen and improve
their success in the provision of Business Friendliness and
public services Competitiveness
• is the response of departments to
people's clamor for dignity and • Refers to the LGUs initiative to
results in public service. promote investment and encourage
SGLG areas for improvement of local business enterprises.
performance:
• Maintain transparency and Safety, Peace and Order
accountability practices in the use of • this aspect is all about establishing
funds good and respectable performance.
• Preparing for problems posed by
unexpected natural calamities Environmental Management
• Showing willingness to assist and • It is the initiative of the LGUs to
attention to the needs of develop a policy and program focused
disadvantaged and oppressed on solid waste management and
segments of society ecological balance that will preserve
and protect the environment.
Good Fiscal or Financial Administration
• Fiscal discipline and procedure must Tourism, Heritage Development, Culture
be complied with as must and Arts
transparency and accountability and • This refers to the protection and
full disclosure policy promotion, through local culture,
heritage and national Identity of
Disaster Preparedness LGUs.
2. Continuance Commitment
It is the result of cost and benefit
calculation connected with
staying in the organization.
WEEK 10 B. Employee Volunteering as a Social
Tool of Building Engagement
The lowest level of the pyramid represents a ● Various methods companies use to
business’s first responsibility, which is to be establish and maintain a mutually beneficial
profitable. relationship with the communities in which they
operate.
2. LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY
The second level of the pyramid is the business’s WHY IS THERE A NEED TO BE INVOLVE?
legal obligation to obey the law.
● No longer are buyers acting as mindless or
3. ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY passive consumers, but as meticulous judges of a
company.
The ethical layer of the pyramid is described as
doing the right thing, being fair in all STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNITY RELATIONS
situations and also avoiding harm.
1. CREATE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
4. Philanthropic Responsibility
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At the top of the pyramid, occupying the smallest 2. KNOW THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE
space is philanthropy. 3. AIM TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY
WEEK 10
1. Organizational Governance
The governance of organizations is the mechanism by Among other things, organizations are urged
which organizations make decisions and take steps to to embrace initiatives to:
achieve their goals.
• Prevent Pollution
• Use Resources Sustainably
2. Human rights
• Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change
Human rights are the civil rights to which all human
beings are entitled. • Protect the Environment, Biodiversity, and the
Restoration of Natural Habitats
Aims to protect people from abuse, discrimination, and
exploitation. 5. Fair Operating Practices
• In their relationships with other
Those rights are broken down into two types: organizations, fair business standards apply to
the ethical behavior of organizations. As viewed
• The first concerns political and civil rights such as the through the corporate social responsibility lens,
right to life, democracy and equality; these activities refer to how an organization uses
its interactions with other organizations to bring
• The second concerns economic, social and cultural positive results.
rights such as the right to work, the right to
WEEK 11
Fair Operating Practices include:
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Anti- corruption
Allows businesses large and small to enact
• Responsible Political Involvement
positive change. It’s when companies choose
• Fair Competition
to do what’s right not only for their bottom line
• Promoting Social Responsibility in the Value
but also to build customer trust.
Chain
• Respecting Property Rights
1. Johnson & Johnson – their initiatives
6. Consumer issues from leveraging the power of the wind to
• Organizations that provide products and services providing safe water to communities
have certain responsibilities to consumers. around the world. Its purchase of a
privately-owned energy supplier in the
ISO 26000 allows businesses to take a more Texas Panhandle allowed the company to
responsible position on such consumer issues reduce pollution while providing a
by integrating the following into their practices.: renewable, economical alternative to
electricity. The company continues to seek
• Fair Marketing
out renewable energy options with the goal
• Factual and Unbiased Information
to procure 35% of their energy needs from
• Fair Contractual Processes
renewable sources.
• Protection of Consumer Health and Safety
• Sustainable Consumption
2. Google – 50% less energy than others in
• Consumer Service, Support, and Complaint and
the world. They also have committed over
Dispute Resolution
$1 billion to renewable energy projects
• Consumer Data Protection and Privacy.
• Access to Essential Services and enable other business to reduce their
• Education and Awareness environmental impact through services
such as Gmail.
7. Community involvement and development
• Both companies have partnerships and impacts, 3. Coca-cola – they have made changes to
whether they handle it proactively or not, on the their supply chain practices including
societies in which they work. investing in new alternatively fueled trucks.
• This relationship should be focused on community 4. Ford Company – plans to reduce their
involvement to contribute to its growth. In both greenhouse gas emissions using their
community engagement and growth, sustainable ECO boost engine to increase fuel
development is implicit. efficiency. It also plans to introduce 40
electrified vehicles (electric hybrid) by
ISO 26000 encourages organizations to 2022, in an investment of $11 billion.
integrate community involvement and According to Ford “We’re all in on this and
development into their practices by offering
we are electrifying them. In addition,
guidance on:
American Ford dealerships rely on wind
• Education and Culture sail and solar PV systems to power their
• Employment Creation and Skills Development location greatly reducing their use of
• Technology Development and Access electricity.
• Wealth and Income Creation
• Health
• Social Investment
5. Pfizer – reduction in price of their Pevenar 13 up the company’s support and efforts to
vaccine (for pneumonia, ear and blood reach refugee candidates to hire 10,000
infections) for those in need, and in situations refugees by 2022.
such as refugees and emergency settings.
11. New Belgium Brewing Company – the
6. Wells Fargo – donates up to 15% of its brewing company owned by its employees
revenue to charitable causes each year, which through a stock ownership plan is focused
has $286.5 million in 2017 alone to more than on sustainability. Its Fort Collins brewery
14,500 non-profits through philanthropy such as produces 18% of its own electricity through
food banks and incubators to hasten the speed solar panels and wastewater. It also
to market for start-ups. They also provide contributes to bicycle and eco-focused
employees two paid days off per year to organizations.
volunteer and give back to the charity of their
choice. 12. The Walt Disney Company – is committed
to reducing their carbon footprint with goals
7. TOMS – donate a pair of shoes for every pair for zero net greenhouse gas emissions, zero
they sell and has resulted in the donation of over waste and commitment to conserve water.
60 million pair of shoes to children in need. Profits They are actively ensuring that they set strict
are used to assist the visually- impaired by international labor policies to protect the
providing prescription glasses and medical safety and rights of their employees. They
treatments, provide safe drinking water and build are also active in the community and
businesses in developing countries to create jobs. encourage employees to do the same. They
They are also strong anti-bullying advocates and also have healthy living initiatives to promote
work several non- governmental organizations healthy eating habits among employees.
and non-profits to set examples of ethical
behavior.
WEEK 12
1. San Miguel Corporation - is a Filipino
8. Bosch – half of Bosch’s research and multinational publicly listed conglomerate
development budget is invested in creating holding company.
environmental protection technology. By 2021 the 2. Philippine Long Distance Company -
company will have invested $50 million to support PLDT was established on November 28,
universities and research programs that are 1928 by the Philippine
focused on the environment, energy and mobility Government Act No. 3436. Philippine
in Germany, India, U.S. and China through Bosch legislature approved by the Governor
Energy Research Network otherwise known as General Henry L. Stimson by means of
BERN. merger of four telephone companies under
operation of the American telephone
9. General Electric (GE) – has manufactured its company.
Evolution Series Tier 4 locomotive, which will reduce 3. UNILEVER – In 1885, William Lever
established a soap manufacturing
emissions by more than 70% and launched the Digital
company in the United Kingdom with his
Wind Farm which can boost a wind farm’s energy brothers and named the company Lever
production by 20%. Brothers.