Responsible

Citizenship

RESPONSIBLE CITIZEN

GOVERNED – to officially control and lead (a group of people)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS - refers to the collegial body that exercises the corporate powers of all corporations formed under the Corporation Code. It conducts all business and controls or holds all property of such corporations.

Governance is for Governors and Governed

The focus on those who govern, the Board of Directors.

The participation of those governed, the officers and staff.

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Four Basic Principles of Citizenship

1. Personal responsibility is about recognizing what you do and how it impacts on others.

2. Moral responsibility is about a broader social agreement on what is acceptable and how you should treat others

3. political literacy - learning about, and how to take part in and influence, public life through knowledge, skills and values. Public life on a national and local level.

4. community involvement - learning about becoming involved in the life and concerns of communities, including learning through community involvement and service to the community.

Four Basic Principles of Citizenship

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A culture: principles, practices, operations, decisions and actions at all levels. At the top (good governance). At every level of the corporate ladder (responsible citizenship).

Good Governance

Responsible Citizenship

Responsible Citizenship

ALEX LACSON’S 12 ways to help our country

1. Follow traffic rules. Follow the law

2. Always ask for an official receipt

3. Don’t buy smuggled goods. Buy Local. Buy Filipino

4. Speak positively about us and our country

5. Respect your traffic officer , policeman and soldier

6. Throw your garbage properly , Segregate . Recycle. Conserve

7. Support your church

8. During elections, do your solemn duty

9. Pay your employees well

10. Pay your taxes

11. Adopt a scholar or poor child

12. Be a good parent . Teach your kids to love our country

1. Pay their taxes, the right taxes. 2. Treat their employees well. 3. Lead balanced, wholesome lives. 4. Take care of the environment. 5. Document all first-hand

experiences with corruption. 6. Do not bribe to get favors.

Drilon’s 23

Drilon’s 23

7. Support their church. 8. Support their alma mater. 9. Control consumption. 10. Save money. 11. Give generous tips. 12. Join advocacy groups.

Drilon’s 23

13. Take care of their health. 14. Volunteer. Help the city. Help the

poor. 15. Pray, practice their faith. 16. Love their town, their city, their

country. 17. Hold their leaders accountable. 18. Assert their rights but at the same

time fulfill their duties.

Drilon’s 23

19. Follow traffic rules, observe road courtesy.

20. Follow rules, obey laws, avoid shortcuts.

21. Vote, vote wisely, make sure vote is counted and don’t sell vote

22. Take pride in being Filipino. 23. Do not wait. They just do it!

Characteristics of Responsible Corporate Citizen

TRUTH at some point it became acceptable for corporations to blatantly lie to the consumer.

SHARED VALUE the effectiveness of a company and the health of the social, environmental, and economic ecosystems where it exists are mutually dependent.

Characteristics of Responsible Corporate Citizen

IMPACT The good companies of 2012 are displaying real compassion and commitment to social and environmental issues. The most effective (and honest) involvement is to address issues that fall within the domain of business.

Responsible Corporate Citizen

Corporate social responsibility is a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model.

Share the Company Vision - A shared vision is a picture that everyone in the company carries in their heads and hearts.

Responsible Corporate Citizen

Passionate about the Company Mission - At the heart of any company is its mission

Live the Core Values of the Corporation - Core values are the fundamental beliefs of a person or organization.

Some examples of core values for a company might include:

A commitment to sustainability and to acting in an environmentally friendly way.

Patagonia

Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement

solutions to the environmental crisis.–Patagonia's Mission Statement

The ad concludes: "There is much to be done and plenty for us all to do. Don't buy what you don't need. Think twicebefore you buy anything. take the Common Threads Initiative pledge and to reimagine a world where we take only what nature can replace."

Ben & Jerry’s

Ben & Jerry’s turns ice cream into energyBen & Jerry’s has become the first ice cream company in the world to power one of its factories using the by-products of ice cream. 

The Chunkinator is an anaerobic

flotation reactor.Ice cream waste

is fed into its tank, where 24 billion natural

micro-organisms break down the

particles, turning them into biogas.

A commitment to innovation and excellence

Apple ComputerApple's "Think

Different" philosophy was expressed in a

series of ads commissioned by Steve

Jobs in 1997, a time when Apple was early in its comeback from

the brink of bankruptcy. Apple has

repeatedly demonstrated with its innovation mgt. what a

success user friendliness and design can generate. Genius

ergonomics make Apple products

effortless to use. “Design is not just

what it looks like and feels like. Design is

how it works,”

A commitment to doing good for the whole and excellence.

“Don’t be evil.” Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But “Don’t be

evil” is much more than that. “Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs

and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honorably and treating each other with respect.

“ -Google

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In short, responsible citizens….are children of Godare patriots of their countryare devoted family men/womenlead balanced livesare persons of character

…for the Common Good