Corporate Responsibility

As individuals we are held personally accountable to G-d for our actions. He has outlined what upright behavior is, most succinctly through the greatest and next greatest commandments to love G-d and our neighbors (Matthew 22:36-40).

When we join together as a group in order to accomplish a larger goal, say a business, we do not step out from under those two commands. In fact, it requires a more intentional and focused effort to follow them since the systems and processes followed within an organization can serve to act contrary to those commandments even as individuals work to follow them.

Companies should strive to treat everyone they come into contact with with love. Fellow employees, suppliers, business partners, employees families, and of course customers. What love looks like can vary significantly depending on the relationship, but love should be the driving motivation. In addition, as we are called to subdue the earth and be good stewards of it. So we should pay keen attention to how our organizations are impacting the world around us.

Employees should be paid fairly, valued as people, and provided a good working environment. Every effort should be made for the time and energy demands made upon them not to negatively impact their families and other relationships. Employee's lives should be enriched for having worked for an organization, not worn down.

Suppliers and other business partners should be paid fairly and quickly. Any contracts or business agreements should be made in good faith and followed.

Customers should be served quickly, respectfully, and all transactions should be steeped in clarity, and transparency. Products should be physical manifestations of love towards those who use them. They should not injure, hurt, or degrade the lives of the people who come in contact with them.

The bigger an organization is, and the more power and resources it commands the more it can do and the bigger things it can accomplish. However, that includes the level of hurt and damage to everyone involved. We should strive to make them engines of love, not just profits.