{"id":43741,"date":"2013-02-28T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=43741"},"modified":"2013-02-26T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:29:17","slug":"5-levels-corporate-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/5-levels-corporate-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Five levels of corporate citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/corporate-citizenship.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"corporate-citizenship\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43921 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/corporate-citizenship.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/corporate-citizenship-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/corporate-citizenship-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/450;\" \/>One of the blogs I keep my little beady eye upon is &#8220;Civilising the Economy&#8221; by Marvin Brown, professor of business ethics at the University of San Francisco.\u00a0 You can get\u00a0 a measure of the man and his writing from the blog&#8217;s strapline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My goal here is not to think outside the box but change the box we think in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, a recent post he&#8217;s put up is about developing a new course on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilizingtheeconomy.com\/2013\/02\/the-ethical-principles-of-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ethics of social transformation from a global citizen perspective<\/a>.\u00a0 Whilst not directly linked to them, I thought it would be useful to share the several levels of citizenship he identifies and discuss them from the business and corporate citizenship perspective.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ll see, the gap between business and global citizenship sharing the same bench is wider than you might think.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The common citizen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is the basic level of citizenship, where you realise our common humanity is the place to deal with our social differences, and is tied to the principle of integrity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite scary to realise just how many businesses fail to clear this first hurdle.\u00a0 If there is no integrity in a business (e.g.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-02-03\/ethics-at-barclays-went-into-the-shredder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how ethics was literally shredded at Barclays<\/a>) then there cannot be a recognition of a common and equitable humanity, and without that a business will pursue only what is in its own short term interest and not the long term interest of all.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The participatory citizen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Once you recognise the role of our common humanity it&#8217;s a short step to participating in it with concrete action.\u00a0 For that action to be effective there has to be a degree of deliberation behind it and a recognition of equality between different people and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the idea of corporate citizenship starts to take off and can be fine-tuned to asking whether a corporation should take wealth from one area to feed into another (e.g.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanufacturer.com\/articles\/mining-ceo-resigns-after-bangladeshi-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> resignations over the proposal to destroy some of Bangaldesh&#8217;s most fertile farmland for a coal mine<\/a>).<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A represented citizen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re participating in the process of finding an equitable solution the next logical step is to have your views represented to those in power: in other words, making sure those who make the rules are accountable for the effects those rules have.<\/p>\n<p>From the corporate point of view this is more than just lobbying.\u00a0 Citizenship is about recognising and acting for common humanity, so businesses need to argue not just for their own benefit but for the benefit of all the people impacted by their actions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Private and public citizens<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There are naturally in this world private and publicly owned possessions.\u00a0 Looking after both is a form of stewardship, ensuring private possessions are maintained for the good of the owner, and making sure public possessions can be sustained for as long as possible to bring benefit to as wide a range of people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses correctly think about what is under their purview as being a private possession which is, by and large, theirs to steward and manage as they see best.\u00a0 However many of the impacts a business has are upon public possessions and businesses therefore have just as strong an imperative to ensure their stewardship and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Key to this is reforming the idea that &#8220;privatising&#8221; an impact by paying money (e.g. BP&#8217;s admission of criminality and payment of a fine) is good citizenship.\u00a0 It is not: remaining engaged with the public environment and dealing with it on that level is.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Becoming a global corporate citizen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So finally you reach the pinnacle of this series of levels.\u00a0 Growing from the recognition and participation in a common humanity through which there is an equitable outcome for all, through an engagement in both public and privately owned assets and spaces, to where you can have open conversations with all people and culture around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the key issues of justice and human rights come into play, in particular ensuring that no person suffers a disproportionate loss of wealth or standard of living in order to generate greater wealth for another.\u00a0 In essence, it means ensuring that there is no net loss throughout the business process.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;global citizen&#8221; is bandied around quite freely within the CSR community yet I wonder if there really are any genuine global citizens out there?<\/p>\n<p>Businesses who engage with the communities they impact, not just as part of a consultative process but in a genuine desire to see whether their commercial imperative will bring real and long lasting benefit to that community, promoting stewardship of both public and private possessions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a difficult one to square and I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s yet been achieved.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><sup>Picture credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/morguefile.com\/archive\/display\/23730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PIC1090133390144 \/ kconnors \/ morgueFile<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the blogs I keep my little beady eye upon is &#8220;Civilising the Economy&#8221; by Marvin Brown, professor of business ethics at the University of San Francisco.\u00a0 You can get\u00a0 a measure of the man and his writing from the blog&#8217;s strapline: My goal here is not to think outside the box but change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6871],"tags":[7903,7904,1094,7907,7905,7906,7908,7909],"class_list":{"0":"post-43741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-csr","8":"category-featured-csr","9":"tag-being-a-good-corporate-citizen","10":"tag-being-a-good-global-citizen","11":"tag-corporate-citizenship","12":"tag-corporate-global-citizenship","13":"tag-global-citizenship","14":"tag-global-corporate-citizenship","15":"tag-martin-brown","16":"tag-university-of-san-francisco","17":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five levels of corporate citizenship - Corporate Eye<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Five levels of corporate citizenship. 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