Internal Social Responsibility, must be preached by Example
Although it is true that Social Responsibility has been consolidated in recent years -in academic and business fields- as a differentiating element from the point of view of marketing, its role goes further and that its acts communicate elements that are immersed in topics of competitiveness and economic investment, but apparently many companies and organizations, both public and private, have been doing it as a kind of advertising, image and marketing externally, but in reality it is to put pillars on muddy ground, since internally they do the opposite and let's see why, below I show one of the many news that exist and that has motivated me to write the following lines.
Internal Social Responsibility, By Mg. Luis A. Meneses Romero
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It is reality, this issue of Responsibility is business, it is profitable or just one of the wishes of many Leaders or management writers… then I will comment as a professional with extensive experience and a Master's degree in one of the most prestigious universities in the country, which allow me to have the competence and in a specialty to deal with this important news for true management and professionals called Human Resources managers,
EFE: A businessman raises the salary of his employees after trying to live with his salary 10/21/2007
An Italian businessman, director of a pasta factory, will pay 200 euros a month more to his workers after having tried to live on his monthly payment and only arrive until the 20th.
The Italian businessman Enzo Rossi, 42, has decided to raise the salary of his employees by two hundred euros net per month after having tried to live with his salary and only arrive until the 20th, the newspaper La República publishes today in its digital edition.
Rossi, director of the pasta factory Campofilone, declares after the experience that "it is fair to take more from the rich to give to the poor."
The businessman assigned a salary of a thousand euros for himself and another thousand for his wife, who also works in society, although he recognizes that those two thousand euros of income are even higher than those of some of the families of his employees.
The businessman explains that he decided to do the experiment because «we are going back to the 19th century when in my town there were counts and barons, on the one hand, and sharecroppers, on the other, and it was said that pigs were born without legs because the hams had to go to The lords".
«In the last decades the life of the workers grew and the difference with the other social classes had diminished. But now it is going backwards and it is necessary to remedy it ", assured.
The businessman comments that he has not been able to get to day 20 after having paid the bills for water, gas, car insurance and having been careful in daily spending.
“That means that in a whole year I would have been without money for 120 days a year; This is not only poverty, it is also despair, "he says.
Later, he makes a metaphor to better understand the situation of not having money at the end of the month: "I have felt like one when he dives into the sea at a depth of twenty meters and discovers that the oxygen cylinder has run out."
For this reason, it has decided to raise the salary of its employees by 200 euros per month, since "it is the least I could do." "The cost of living has risen 150 euros per month, according to the National Institute of Statistics. For those who are like me it is nothing, for workers 150 euros less is almost two thousand euros a year and that means not paying for car breakdowns or not buying a computer for your son ", says Rossi.
The businessman explains that in the last two years the profits of his company have gone well and, therefore, "it is not fair that the only one to enjoy them is me." And although he does not define himself a Marxist, but an ex-rightist, Rossi affirms: The surplus value generated from the processing of flour and eggs must also give benefits to the farmers who give me the material and to the factory workers.
As the Principle of Leadership is reviewed many times by Management Gurus, as well as how well covered in Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
Fifth Habit: Try first to understand and then to be understood.
This habit tries to put yourself in the place of the other first, to see things from their point of view. It is based on the popular saying "Everything is the color of the glass you look at." It is perhaps the most difficult to practice, we almost always spend more time talking than listening and we believe that things can only be the way we see them.
You have to put yourself in the shoes of another to understand him and understand not only his Performance and Performance, but also understand him as a human person and not as a resource, this is a Basic Principle of Emotional Intelligence as explained by Goleman in his classic Emotional Intelligence.
True leaders as well as many directors or managers forget about it, leaving aside their experience, professional training or also some with academic laurels such as master's or doctorates (many of them even teaching chairs) and focusing on a sterile confrontation or isolation of their collaborators for many as a means of maintaining their image and power or simply hoisting their pride, seeking only to say No to better working conditions, better salary, a more suitable and economical health system and as well as the just right to allow those collaborators who have the necessary training, experiences and skills to develop and assume management positions, however they are concerned with raising, creating or hiring consultants or advertising codes of ethics,Social Responsibility or the so-called Corporate Governance code in both private and public organizations, creating an image of Responsibility that in practice not only does not apply but is distorted, generating the perception that all this is just fashion, when in reality it is the basics. and fundamental in or any organization that prides itself on being competitive and responsible
If this has been happening like this, let's imagine what happens in these organizations internally with their Human Capital, this truly calls for a reflection on their true profile of Leader or professional related to integrity and interrelations, both as their own and towards others, that Gentlemen It is also called Internal Social Responsibility and it is the key to Companies that Excel.
"By itself each finger of the hand is weak, but all together in coordination can paint a masterpiece." John wooden
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