This level of CSR is necessary for two reasons. First of all, it is important for companies to recognize that they are the role models for many young entrepreneurs and businesses. These brand new businesses look up to strong corporations as what they want to achieve someday, and they look to the business dealings of established companies to learn how to operate. Secondly, young workers within these large, strong corporations learn business practices that carry them throughout life. It is important that the business practices they learn are ethical ones.
Many young people have their first work experience in the fast food industry.
Although these examples seem small in comparison to paying bribes to acquire business contracts, both are forms of employee dishonesty, and if dishonest practices are learned and acceptable at a young age they are more likely to carry on throughout one's life. Next corporations have a responsibility to employees and third parties related to them. Company codes of conduct should respect employee rights as well as the rights of others in direct relationship with the corporation. The outcome of this practice is solely positive. While the cost of providing the respect of employee rights as well as the rights of third parties involved in the company is zero, the rewards are priceless.