Commercial disregard of social responsibility

Corporate concern for profit-making overrides any concern for the well-being of employees and the community. Commercial behaviour regarding industrial processes, the extraction of resources, the production of goods and services and their distribution is so focused on economic factors that it fails to recognize responsibility for other needs. This behaviour has an impact on crime, the environment, social roles, education, law, politics, communications, transportation and the quality of life, and yet corporations either take no responsibility or at best reduce their responsibility to the payment of taxes. Liaison between economic and political structures is ineffective at the global level and adversarial at every other level. Because consumers and national governments are unable to demand accountability of industry, corporations are free to pursue their profit-oriented use of resources.

1. Maximising shareholders' returns gives the private sector more capital to invest, thus increasing employment opportunities and profits for all.

1. Unshared mutual responsibility
2. Unethical industrial practices
3. Lack of social conscience
4. Inadequate response to societal needs

1. Unethical practices of transnational corporations
2. Unauthorized sale of personal information
3. Short-term planning of product life cycles
4. Self-interested industrial vision
5. Regional maldistribution of industry
6. Production serving false consumption needs
7. Planning conflicts between political and industrial sectors
8. Outdated production line methods
9. Lack of social accounting in the business community
10. Lack of relationship between wealth generation and the public good
11. Lack of conservation of energy by the private sector
12. Lack of business opposition to the arms race
13. Irresponsible pharmaceutical advertising
14. Insensitivity of transnational corporations to consumer needs
15. Inadequate recall procedures for unsafe products
16. Inadaptation of technology to man
17. Imperialistic distribution system
18. Excessive corporate debt
19. Disregard for international ban on marketing unhealthy products
20. Corporate self interest overriding community
21. Corporate greed

1. Unsurveyed consumer needs
2. Refusal to market new drugs
3. Production of non-essentials
4. Obstruction of governmental medical reform
5. Misuse of resources
6. Misconduct of medical executives
7. Market indicators' exclusion of human requirements
8. Lack of relationship between social techniques and the needs they address
9. Irrelevant scientific activity
10. Denial of adequate medical care to skilled labour
11. Accountability based solely on profit
12. Absence of tactical methods

1. Inflexible management patterns
2. Inadequate systems for monitoring industrial growth
3. Depersonalization of responsibility

1. Uncoordinated expression of needs
2. Inadequate product life cycle analysis
3. Foreign control of natural resources

1. Promoting product stewardship
2. Filling social needs
3. Ensuring corporate social responsibility

1. Unsociable
2. Restriction
3. Responsibility
4. Irresponsibility
5. Disregard