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not only the company’s financial success but also the way it conducts its business in regard
with its commitment to the society and its commitment to the environmental quality.
The aspects included in the companies’ evaluation are:
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Social responsibility management
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Business ethics
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Products, advertisement, marketing and customers
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Work environment
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Envolvement in the community
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Environmental quality
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Partners and the supply chain
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Human and civil rights
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Corporate leadership, dialogue, transparency and reports
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The work environment is a parameter that includes the proper behavior to disabled
people and occupational obstacles.
Principles and criteria for work environment
The social management code includes principles and criteria for the work environment.
According to the work environment principles, “The company is strict in concern with the
respectful and fair attitude for all its employees and their fair salary that enables them decent
living, and it is responsible for the employees being employed according to their free will
rather than by any kind of restraint or force. The company must respect the cultural, religious
and social needs of all its employees and to design employing workers and managers of a
diverse social, cultural and community background, which constitute a variety that represents
the community in which it acts.”
The criteria for work environment include, among other things:
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Safe work environment
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Employing disabled people and addressing their special needs.
Occupational rehabilitation of disabled people and occupational
obstacles
Employment of disabledpeopleandoccupational obstacles, constitutedifficulties for theemployers
and often also for the employees, despite of its integration in the frame of social responsibility.
The need to make workplaces accessible both in the physical aspect and in accessibility to
information and to the employee’s fulfillment, sometimes constitutes a heavy social burden, that
some of theworkplaces prefer ignoring it andmaintain other parts of their social commitments.
