Impromptu Social Activities Case Study

Planned corporate responsibility activities exist in each organization as a part of its core business value. Impromptu corporate social responsibility activities often take place whenever there is uncertainty or natural disaster or man-made disasters occur in a region or country. During such tough times, individual enterprises offer aids through numerous corporate social responsibility activities. Companies or non-governmental organizations will contribute cloths, money, and food for the victims. Even, governments will be the first in providing shelters, food and cloth for its victims. Furthermore, neighbour countries will join together in order to aid the affected countries. For instance, the Government of Malaysia, China, India and United

The following are issues on ethics that cause criticisms against impromptu corporate social activities. The volunteers or the representative perceived to behave unethically when the safety of women and children at relief camp endangered by certain parties. Providing inadequate and low quality of food and poor medical supports to the victims through impromptu corporate social responsibility programs also considered as unethical behaviour. The corporate entities should not take the unforeseen occurrence as a reason to provide low quality of food and medical supplies to the victims. Furthermore, some parties’ exorbitant behaviours in imposing price on the food and medical supplies at relief camps is also perceived as typically

By enforcing the laws, unethical practices such as bribery, fraud, money laundering and scams can be wiped-out. On the other hand, in order to combat organizational level unethical behaviors, ethical training should be provided to all Malaysian students after their secondary education. Government should establish ethics training centers in nationwide. The laws should be enforced in order to ensure that all students to participate the ethical training program once they complete their secondary education. Furthermore, participation in the ethical program should be considered as one of the important criteria for the students to obtain jobs in