The Caux Round Table Principles and White’s Biblical Principles

The article make a link between the nonspiritual and Biblical principles within which business that will be considered responsible and just should follow to. It is going to draw from principles enlisted by the Caux Round Table and those by White. (White, 1978) Caux focus mainly on the secular section of the principles without putting any emphasis on any one religion but rather as a guidance for proper business dealings for the improvement of society and not just benefit the one conducting it alone White drew his principles from teachings in the Bible therefore caters to those business with practicing Christian stakeholders. These two are drawn from what can be seen as
The business role is to build not destroy but to improve not be negative to the society. White says servitude is an important part of a good business, this simply refers to the shareholders of the company being at the disposal of the customer. The services to be offered should be to serve the maximal benefit of the customer only. (Srinivasan, 2003) This is the customer service, a business should invest in training its employees the phrase, “The customer is always right” and that they should be patient and fair in their dealings especially in their face to face dealings. This principle is somewhat ignored in the Caux principles and doesn’t really outline these types of encounters. The employees will encounter with all kinds of people, rude, black, white and even polite ones. This type of servitude leads to increase in the value of the service/product as they have a good reputation they have built. Ethical principles from the Bible to use on a global decision is not encouraged for a number of reasons. A third of the world’s population are Christians, must less of this fraction are practicing and belong to different denominations who might have different interpretations of the teachings of Scriptures. This is quite clear that even to Christians, these principles are not sufficient. These principles are then rendered irrelevant by the rest of the population: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists,