Is citizen's responsibility same as of government and corporations in CSR? (CSR)

Definitely its yes from my side, the citizen also has the same responsibility as government and corporation for social responsibility which fosters national competitiveness. Though often it is presumed, the burden of social responsiveness to be on the shoulder of corporation and government (Thiel, 2016), the situation should be beyond that and citizen should also reciprocate back. The passivity to act from the community dimensions will decrease the essence of feedback read system of social responsibility and competitiveness.

The research finding by (Thiel, 2016) concluded when local communities are held accountable for the social responsibility by corporations, there is the chance in the increase of local, regional and national competitiveness and in the similar way when the government hold the local communities accountable for social responsibility and competitiveness then local, national and regional competitive advantage is likely to increase.

The level of trust the individual has towards community, corporation, and government defines the pro-activeness of the citizen to be responsive. If the individual trusts the government and corporation they will participate otherwise they may maintain their passivity. So its most important for the corporation and government to maintain trust among the CSR participants.

Citizens are the smallest unit of the community which should be reciprocal in their CSR activities. They are shaped by the culture and environment they breed in. They are the vocal point to speak against the deeds of corporation and government and performs a corrective measure. Venezuela, the country is crippling in stiff financial crises, thousands of people have already left the country in search of food and shelter. The president Nicolas Maduro was on the trip back from China and had a steak at the luxurious hotel owned by famous chef Nusret Gokce at his Nusr-Et(Istanbul), the topic got the social outrage. The citizen throughout the globe criticized Maduro lavishness forgetting the pain of his citizen and appealed to boycott Mr. Gokce restaurants around the globe. The social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter were atrocious against Mr. Gokce hospitality for Maduro and the protest was also seen in his Miami restaurant. This scenario shows the way citizen protested Mr. Maduro (BBC, 2018). Similarly, United Airlines was also engulfed by social media aggression when it used inhuman approach to sack an existing passenger, the outrage makes company to its keens and has to apologize publicly.

In 1996 when Nike child labor issue outcropped, it was devasted by the social criticism. The international brand was mocked and boycotted for employing underage children’s. The social pressure from the community, made the company rethink is an operational strategy. It revised its code of conduct and the company escalated from “laggard to leader”.

            But equally, the attitude of the citizen towards the CSR responsiveness depends upon the culture of their community there are brought up. In case of the western countries, the consumers are more proactive and conscious about CSR and environmentalism but the same may not be the scenario in case of least developed countries and in some middle east countries engulfed by the war. In India, the civic movement and lobby group compelled the supreme court to legalized consensual gay sex whereas the two lesbians were canned publicly in Malaysia.

In above examples, the responsiveness of the citizen has created a pressure in the organization as well as the government, but equal consideration has to be given that it should be unbiased. The responsiveness of citizen makes the community competitive and it necessitates corporation to be competitive which ultimately makes the country competitive.

Bibliography

BBC. (2018, September 18). Nicolás Maduro: Fury over Venezuela leader's Salt Bae 'feast'. Retrieved from www.bbc.com: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45559504

Thiel, M. (2016). The Social Domain in CSR and Sustainability: A Critical Study of Social Responsibility among Governments, Local Communities and Corporations. New York: Routledge.