career development

Career development concerns the expanding human capabilities by training or providing access to political, economic and social opportunities, thus enabling them to lead long and healthy lives, to be knowledgeable and to have a decent standard of living.

Aspects and indicator of responsibility for employee are shown as Table 5.8.

Table 5.8 Aspects and indictors of responsibility for employee Aspects

Indicators 1 2 3 4 5

Complying with labor law ○ ○ ○ ○

Equal opportunity for all workers ○

Employee care ○

Evaluation and compensation ○

Work-life balance ○

Communication between employer and employee ○

Occupation health ○

Safe production ○

Career development ○

Practices are shown as following：

Equal opportunity for all workers - Employ the female and foreigners.

- Employ the disables.

- Employ the retired.

Performance evaluation and compensation - Disclose the performance evaluation method.

- Set hotline or counseling counter for complaint about the evaluating and compensation.

- Eliminate any discriminatory dismissal practices.

- Compensate workers for overtime.

Employee care

Employee care includes the enhancement of working environment and caring employee life.

Enterprise can enhance the working environment by the following practice - Provide the traffic payment or provide shuttle for working.

- Provide specific facility for disabled individual. For example, Sony Taiyo Corporation has introduced "Custom Cell" work areas that can be adjusted to suit disabled individuals.

- Permit flexibly select working styles.

- Support the system for baby care or nursing care.

The practice of life care of employee includes - Support the baby care and family care.

- Give birthday gift to employee.

- Provide the psychological counseling.

- Literature and art and sports for employee.

- Care the retired.

- Provide or support children education.

- Help family of employee to come over trouble by donate and others.

Work-life balance

- Provide holiday for baby care or nursing care.

- Provide the paid holiday.

- Shorten the overtime of work.

- When require workers to work overtime, taking into account the interests, safety and wellbeing of workers concerned and any hazard inherent in the work.

- Provide the flexibility work time.

Communication between employee and employer

- Set complaint channel by telephone, letter box or email.

- Not obstruct worker who seek to form or join their own organization and to bargain collectively, for instance by dismissing them or other threat.

- Disclose all information about the corporate policy, or change of operation.

- Let employee to take part in the decision making.

Occupational health

- Develop implement and maintain an occupational health policy.

- Understand and apply occupation health management such as the OHSAS 18001.

- Analysis and control risk of the occupation disease.

- Record, report and investigate all occupation health incidents and problem in order to minimize or eliminate them.

- Ensure employee can freely inquire and be consulted on all aspects of their health and safety related to their work.

- No force employee to do work that is reasonably considered posing an imminent or serious danger to their life or health, or to their life.

- Let employee participate in health and safety decision and activities including investigation of incidents and accident.

Safety production

- Let employee participate in health and safety decision and activities including investigation of incidents and accident.

- Seek outside advice about occupation disease and production safety.

- Install production safe equipment in case of production accident.

- Record, report and investigate the incident of safe production.

- Analyze the reason and take action to prevent the production incidents.

- Provide adequate safe production education and training to all people on all relevant matters.

- Provide equal health and safe protection for part-time and temporary workers, as well as subcontracted workers.

- Provide timely the physical and mental health checkups for all employees.

Career development

- Provide the opportunity of oversea working.

- Provide all workers at all stages of their work experience with access to skill development, traning and opportunity for career advancement on an equal and non-discriminatory basis.

- Promote female employee with better performance.

- Consider the benefit of creating directly employment rather than using temporary work arrangement.

B. Corporate responsibility for community

Enterprise is located anywhere; it must have a relationship with the community. This relationship should base on the community involvement so as to contribute to the community development. Community involvement and community development are both integral parts of sustainable development. Community involvement goes beyond identifying and engaging stake holders in regards to the impacts of activities of an organization. It also encompasses support for and building a relationship with the community. In one word, the community involvement arises out of recognition that the organizing is a stakeholder in the community.

Community development, generally understood, is the improvement of life quality of a population. It is not a linear process; moreover, it is a long-term process of integration of different interest and culture. Community development is usually advanced when the social forces in a community strive to promote public participation and pursue equal rights and

dignified standards of living. Enterprise should consider itself as part of community, recognize and have due regard for the right of community member to make decision in relation to their community and pursue ways of maximizing their resource and opportunities, recognize and have due regard for the characteristics like religions, traditions, cultures and history of the community while interacting with it, recognize the value of working in partnership, supporting the exchange of experiences, resources and efforts.

Before deciding upon an approach to community involvement and development, enterprise should assess its potential impacts on the community and make plan to mitigating negative impact and optimizing positive impacts. For example, an enterprise planning to build an access to underground water engage the community at the planning stage to identify how the road could be built to also meet the need of surrounding villagers.

Enterprise may be confronted with circumstance that threaten to disrupt community life, like food security emergencies, natural disaster, displacement of populations and armed conflicts

On the other hand, the UN Millennium Declaration set out goals that, if met, would help solve the world main development challenges. The eight Millennium Development Goals are eradicating extreme poverty a hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/ADIS, malaria and other disease, ensuring environment sustainability, developing a global partnership for development.

Enterprise can achieve the goals of contribution to community by social investment and volunteer activity.