Participation and Action as a Global Citizen in the Workplace

Corporate citizenship is a term used to describe how a business has fulfill its responsibilities towards the society for meeting the ethical, economic, environmental, legal responsibilities placed on them by the stakeholders. Many companies, such as Citibank, Mcdonalds, Mircrosoft and HP have taken their role as a corporate citizen to describe their social initiatives.

 

Citibank is one of the corporations that have incorporated the concept of global citizen in its business. Citigroup has launched different programs to support the protection of human rights. Their rules and policies towards their stakeholders, such as employees and customers are guided by the principles suggested by United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The company ensures that all of the employees are treated equally regardless of their age, nationality or sex, so employees can work in a free from discrimination zone.

 

Hewlett-Packard Development Company (HP) also illustrates an example of corporate citizen. The company has applied their knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to make an impact in education of the society. It has been inspiring students from different countries to use technical ingenuity and address the current global social issues. The company also makes an effort to reduce the environmental impact of their global IT supply chain and launched recycling programs and reduces any waste produced during their production.

 

The article “Implementing global corporate citizenship: An integrated business framework” illustrated the key elements or component on the attainment of corporate citizenship. For example, a good company should take their role and held responsibility towards issues like to protect the environment, encourage human rights, reduce the economic inequality, respond to the public concerns, reduce global warming effect, have an effective supply chain management and etc. Every company should has responsibility towards their stakeholders and communities, to be a good corporate citizen, they should make an effort to protect our interconnected world and make positive change in different aspects.