Introduction
In the current era, the organizational culture integrated in modern organizations is that particular way with which each social group is managed. Some characteristics may be: beliefs, myths, customs, their religions and values, which are repeated in each generation, all this is found in the formation of each of the individuals who together create a society, currently companies are they say they are incorporating a culture.
In some cases, companies tend to have vague criteria regarding the responsibility they have as an organization to take into account the environment and how to contribute to social development, for this reason it will be investigated in terms of social responsibility.
I am going to develop the subject of organizational culture from the concept of social responsibility as the primary focus on the content, in this way I will analyze those characteristics on which the way of acting of individuals is based in terms of responsibilities that come to exercise before society and the environment.
On the other hand, I will analyze the social responsibilities of the organization.
Individual Social Responsibility
It is considered the accumulation of values that integrate individuals to carry out social tasks that can contribute to the growth of the environment or the development of the society in which they live.
All human beings are part of a society in which individual actions that provide sufficient elements to care for it have to be used, as well as creating conscious and committed people who are capable of facing any type of anomaly that in a future may have an impact on their environment.
For all this, people must have a broad and mature sense of responsibility. At present, people tend to neglect these aspects of great importance, the consequence of which is to disorient and lead to a lack of commitment and awareness in individuals as well as the neglect of the environment as well as of society.
The sense of responsibility of people is based on the values and beliefs that one has, for this they must go through an adequate learning process in their personal life, which ranges from childhood through adolescence until reaching adulthood.
What is being responsible based on?
Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Kid, Smart Kid) “Personal Responsibility: Determine certain duties or tasks that your children need to perform for their health and personal development. Family or Social Responsibility: Determining certain duties or tasks that contribute to the family or social environment that do not result in a financial reward. "
Here the author Robert Kiyosaki in his book "Smart Boy, Rich Boy" talks to us about both personal and joint responsibility at an early age of the individual.
He tells us that it is essential to create a good sense of responsibility whose bases are adopted through simple tasks, all this as time passes unconsciously forms the character of the person, which will guide him to have an extensive understanding about what which is to be responsible in the world in which it can operate.
From a psychological point of view, having an adequate education in the learning process causes people to create a set of ideas, thoughts and a belief system in a positive way in terms of their social development, which will serve to interrelate in any type of social group to which it can be integrated. Having an individual with values such as honesty, responsibility, kindness, etc., makes them proactive people contributing to society effectively.
Responsibility in social groups and organizational culture
The human being by nature is a social person, individuals have the need to form social groups for their personal growth, so we can find it in the third step that Abraham Maslow exposes in his theory of needs that talks about social need.
“ It is true that man lives only for bread, when there is no bread. But what happens to man's desires when there is a lot of bread and when his belly is chronically full ”. A. Maslow
For the human being it is vital to have a social participation as well as to communicate with other people in an efficient way, likewise each social group has established goals or policies which will be the direction to take regarding their decisions and actions for compliance of this.
Within social groups, it is found that each individual must possess certain faculties to be able to collaborate together, both their origin and their reason for being must be known, as well as sustaining the commitment to comply with the responsibilities that have been assigned, in this way the person will be allowed to obtain a positive and inspiring sense of belonging. Individuals will exercise their responsibilities based on their culture and personal motivations, taking into account that they should not affect the personal interests or well-being of third parties. Members of social groups should be people whose culture should include the protection and care of the environment, since we all belong to it and as a society it is our responsibility to set a good example to other people.
Currently there are organizations which ignore the care of the environment in which we live such as health care for people.
Organizations that neglect their social responsibilities tend to have a poor culture and train workers with low expectations of growth in the company in which they are located.
On the other hand, organizations that are formed through firm foundations, values and clear objectives in their organizational culture are those that will have a better development at the business level, as well as having a positive image inside and outside the organization, this for means of their values such as responsibility, honesty, These companies positively contribute well-being to society, since they have high levels of health and quality at the time of making their products, all this helps to minimize atmospheric deterioration as well as contamination of the land and air.
Social Responsibility
It is understood as the recognition of the commitments that we have as individuals in the society in which we interact.
Social responsibility is that conscious, sensitive and mature attitude with which we face those problems that intervene in our society, through the implementation of strategies or processes that are helpful to reduce failures to the environment and society.
Now, Social Responsibility, compulsory or voluntary?
Begoña Arrieta, Cristina de la Cruz / Cristina de la Cruz Ayuso, The ethical dimension of social responsibility. “Actions of a moral character present an inevitable component of obligation and imposition; on the other hand, and at the same time, compliance with what is mandatory is only possible from the free will of the subject "
From my point of view, social responsibility as an individual should be used with a sense of professional ethics when exercising functions where society intervenes, I consider that it is something personal and voluntary since the only one who notices the situations is one For this reason, values and principles must be instilled that promote good training in people at the beginning of their childhood, so that when they become adults they have solid bases for their good performance in society.
conclusion
Social responsibility are those obligations that we as individuals in relation to social, cultural and environmental events.
In an organization it is important to take into account the environmental conditions in which it works, to have a broad sense of social responsibility as well as to be faithful to certain values integrated into its culture as an organization. These values are the ones that will develop the expectations and guidelines that will determine the behavior of the social-labor groups as well as the control of the members of the organization.
References
- Author: Robert Kiyosakii. Book "Rich children, smart child." Begoña Arrieta, Cristina de la Cruz / Cristina de la Cruz Ayuso, "The ethical dimension of social responsibility." Page 64.
