5.1 Perspectives on CR across organisations

Table 7. Perspectives on CR across organisations

The respondents were asked to rate CR practices across organisations

Rating by PSUs

• 47 percent of Public Sector, Government Undertakings located CR practice in the medium category.
• PSUs (Public sector or Government undertakings) constituted the highest proportion in the corporate responsibility category (39%) indicating a possible operative bias.  

Rating by Large Corporates

• 51 percent of companies placed CR practice in the medium category with only a few (2%) of them notching the negligible mark.
• PSUs and Indian companies scored marginally higher than MNCs (33% each against a close 31 % for MNCs).

Rating by Multinational Companies

• MNCs, too, placed CR in the medium (43%) category and the lowest proportion (6 %) at negligible.
• MNCs were at the highest in CR practice at 38 percent, with PSUs accounting for the highest proportion of those with negligible CR practice.

 Rating by Small and Medium Companies

• Small and medium scale companies depicted poorest perception of CR practice i.e. a bare seven percent of the overall sample and 50 percent in the low one.
• Indian companies were perceived having lowest sense of CR and CR practice while MNCs and PSUs remained the highest (relatively) at eight percent only a notch (1%) above Indian companies.

Rating by Family Business

• Family businesses had little understanding of CR in companies with the highest proportion of overall companies (38 %) bracketed in the low band and six percent in the higher.
• MNCs were perceived as lowest on CR practice at three percent being placed in the high category and 46 percent in the low one.
• PSUs dominated the sample in terms of CR practice quotient. The rating by this group could be attributed to low awareness about MNCs and perhaps CR per se.

Explanatory Note: Large corporates rated CR across organisations the highest vis-à-vis rating by the other categories. Family businesses had the poorest rating of CR practice across the overall sample.

 5.2 Perspectives on CR practices within the organisation

• 25 percent of the respondents rated own organisations as above the average whereas 46 percent of the companies rated as medium, on asking to rate the CR practices within the organisation.
• Around 30 percent of the companies rated CR practices in their organisations as low or negligible.