Tanggungjawab Sosial Korporat dan pembangunan ekonomi komuniti: Kajian kes perspektif komuniti penerima (Corporate Social Responsibility and community development: Perspective of the recepients)

Sarmila MS, Zaimah R, N. Lyndon, Azima AM, Suhana Saad, Selvadurai S

Abstract


Syarikat korporat melalui inisiatif Tanggungjawab Sosial Korporat (TSK) telah dikenal pasti sebagai salah satu penyumbang kepada program pembangunan komuniti. Justeru itu berbagai-bagai usaha telah dilaksanakan bagi menggalakkan inisiatif ini. Namun begitu sejauh manakah inisiatif TSK dapat menyumbang kepada pembangunan ekonomi komuniti? Artikel ini meneliti perspektif komuniti penerima yang terlibat dengan projek TSK yang telah dilaksanakan oleh syarikat korporat di Pasir Puteh Kelantan. Bagi menjawab persoalan ini seramai 45 ahli komuniti peladang yang terlibat dengan projek TSK telah dikaji selidik. Analisis keatas data tentang pengalaman peserta projek telah dapat mengenal pasti 15 tema asas.Tema-tema tersebut telah digabungkan menjadi tiga tema utama berdasarkan komponen makna, iaitu peluang pekerjaan, penjanaan sumber pendapatan dan penjanaan aset. Ketiga-tiga tema ini menunjukkan makna pembangunan ekonomi yang diberikan oleh komuniti yang terlibat dengan inisiatif TSK tersebut.

Katakunci: kualiti hidup, peladang, pembangunan ekonomi komuniti, pembangunan komuniti, perspektif komuniti, Tanggungjawab Sosial Korporat

Through Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, the corporations have been identified as one of the contributors of the community development programmes. Hence various efforts had been done to encourage the initiatives. However, to what extend does the CSR initiatives able to contribute to the economic development of the community? This article examines the recipient's community perspective of a CSR project by a corporation in Pasir Puteh Kelantan. A total of 45 farmer community members that participated in the CSR project has been interviewed. Analysis of the data on participants’ experiences of the project has identified 15 basic themes. The themes have subsequently been grouped into three components base on the meaning to form three major themes namely employment opportunity, generation of income and acquisition of assets. The three major themes indicate the meaning of economic development given by the community involved in the CSR initiatives.

Keywords: community development, community economic development, community perspectives, Corporate Social Responsibility, farmers, quality of life


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