Responsabilidade social das empresas: o caso da Mozal

Abstract

The issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (R.S.E) has become, in recent years, an issue increasingly present in the world of companies. Nevertheless, it still appears to be a “nebulous” concept, in that, in most cases, it is associated with the idea of ​​philanthropy, charity or the goodwill of businessmen in the face of the various problems (poverty) that society faces. In the present case study, we analyzed the R.S.E of the Aluminum Foundry Company of Mozambique (Mozal). We analyzed, specifically, the role of the company in promoting the well-being of neighboring communities and the way it deals with the issue of the environment, without losing sight of the fact that the company always seeks to profit. The concept of CSR (composed of social actions and protection of the environment made by the company) had the value of a dependent variable in the study, since in the company Mozal CSR is only made by directly responding to the influence of Organizational Culture ( CO), which in turn worked in the study as an independent variable, that is, the CO coming from the BHP group is the main responsible for the way the entire CSR process unfolds in the company. The results of the study indicate that Mozal appears to be a socially responsible company insofar as in addition to fulfilling its legal responsibilities, it seeks through projects and other concrete actions to promote the well-being of neighboring communities and above all seeks in its production activities, through standardized and previously studied environmental management systems, to reduce energy consumption and the emission of polluting gases as much as possible.