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i) Business giving.
- Giving gifts and donations
- Supporting artistic activities
ii) Ecology and environmental quality
- clean up existing pollution
- start process to reduce pollution
- noise control
- aesthetic improvements
- recycling etc.
iii) Consumerism
- truth in advertising pricing lending guarantees and warranties
- control of harmful products
- truth in quantities and quality
- response to consumer complaints.
iv) Community needs
- reduction of poverty
- improvement of health care and education
- Social amenities e.g. roads, schools , etc.
v) Government relations
- restrictions on lobbying
- control of business political action
- restrictions on international relations
- tax remittances
vi) Minorities/Disadvantaged persons
- vocational training
- equal employment rights
- programs for alcoholics and drug addicts
- employment of physically handicapped
- start of industries in marginal areas
- equal pay for equal work
- promotion on merit
vii) Labour relations
- improvement of health and safety at work
- expansion of employee rights
- freedom of participations in company affairs
- care for employee families
viii) Shareholder relations
- full financial disclosures
- disclosure on activities affecting environment
- selection of board members from various interest groups
- non-participation in apartheid regimes or states
- full disclosure on business health
- protection of investments
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