CSR initiatives by companies for employees through social protection measures

Abstract

Abstract. Poverty has always been the main concern globally as it alienates and distresses particular groups of citizen that affects their emotion and psychological behaviour, and may have impact on the socioeconomic aspect of the country. Hence, it is critical for the government to address the poverty problem, as this would lead to inequality. One way to minimise income inequality is through the provision of social protection to maintain the basic consumption and living standard of the needed members of the society. The government highlights the importance of increasing involvement of the private sector to improve social protection through their CSR programmes. Thus, the main purpose of this paper is to unearth the concept of social protection and its role in minimising inequality in the society as well as to develop an instrument to measure the social protection dimension of companies' CSR activities.

Talent Management Disclosure as a Mediator Between Corporate Governance and Financial Performance

“…Equitable Corporate Social Responsibility Utting (2007) proposed that the ideal CSR activities should promote and create an equitable society in the following four aspects: social protection, rights, empowerment, and redistribution. Researchers such as Jalil et al (2016), Rahin et al (2016), Salleh et al (2017), and Sulaiman and Muhamad (2017) have developed measures to represent those four aspects. The first aspect is about social protection.…”

“…The first aspect is about social protection. Salleh et al (2017) have explained that social protection aims to minimise economic and social insecurity, which comprises these three major components: (i) social insurance, (ii) social assistance, and (iii) social services. Social insurance offers protection against the risks of loss of income and shocks, usually employment-related and sometimes contributory.…”

“…This study has adopted the CSR measures, which have been based on these four aspects that underpinned talent management strategies. Together, these four aspects have constituted better CSR practices (Jalil et al, 2016;Rahin et al, 2016;Salleh et al, 2017;Sulaiman & Muhamad, 2017).…”

“…This idea is different from Carroll (1979Carroll ( , 1991, who has promoted ethical and responsible business activities. Researchers have developed new CSR measures by employing four of the proposed aspects in Utting (2007), namely social protection (Salleh et al, 2017), rights (Rahin et al, 2016), empowerment (Sulaiman & Muhamad, 2017), and redistribution (Jalil et al, 2016). This paper has adopted these measures, but its primary focus has been on talent management.…”

The Contributing Sources for Sustainable Funding in Malaysian Social Welfare Group

“…On the other hand, NGOs also provide a positive impact to private sectors. At this point, the private sector commonly involves in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes (Werner, 2009;Mohd Salleh, Muhamad and Mohd Roffeei, 2017). Generally, CSR programmes are mostly focusing on the aspect on protecting the environment, employees welfare, being ethical in daily business activities and improving the society's quality of life (Mohd Nasir et al, 2015).…”