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4.5.11

RESPONSIBILITY OF INDUSTRIES TOWARDS SOCIETY

Dr Suresh Naik’s book

Industry cannot work in isolation

 Geographical environment

 Worker as employee

 Worker as member of family

 Family of the worker

 Retired workers

 Community neighbourhood

 State

 Country

 Customers

 Shareholders

 Other industries

 Under privileged sections of society

The responsibilities can be summed up as follows :

1. Pollution control

2. Training programs

3. Industrial social work

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4. Community work

The main tools for this are :

 Industrial social work-employee oriented professional service

undertaken by employer based on counseling employee, his
family and community

1. Human relations aspects

2. Employee oriented

3. Complementary to welfare officer

4. Alienation

5. Management in the driving seat

6. Little advancement

7. Limited operations

8. Wages depend on quantum of work

9. Expectation is increasing

10. Stresss situations

11. Counseling or emotional support only

12. Professional service-knowledge, training, ethics

13. By and large given by employer

 Community organization and development work by industries

 Work for pollution control and protection of environment

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1. Counseling

2. Family planning

3. Improving family economic conditions

4. Health

5. Family life education

6. Coordination with other welfare agencies

7. Education

8. Understanding of welfare activities

9. Recreation and cultural activities

10. Supervision of social work students

11. Home visits with a view to improving the conditions

12. Advising management on problems related to workers

 Work for retired employees

They are given counselling. In some cases children are employed

 Work for underprivileged specially for handicapped people

There is a National association for equal opportunity for handicapped

 Pollution control- afforestation, recycling of waste

 Training programs-for worker and family/blood donation

/cleanliness drive, family circle