EMCOR CSR: Mercy Beyond Profit

When you already have an established business, there is a need for the reconciliation of profit motive and service formation.

The principle stated above is the business philosophy of Jesus V. del Rosario, owner of Emcor. This man always lives up to how he can serve the people while gaining profit. With this, he has institutionalized and centralized Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to his existing companies.

This is being manifested through the companies’ feeding program, building construction, scholarship program, relief operations, tree planting, fun run, and inter-schools chess championship.

“The service is actually part of the interaction where you have to do good to your fellow—that’s the Business Philosophy of the owner. Maybe if there is evangelization, it’s probably the act that we are doing that evangelizes people,” Emcor Assistant Vice President Guilbert R. Olbez commented.

Olbez who witnessed this principle in action agrees that it lies on the belief that once you do good to your fellow, the good thing that you have done will also be given back to you. So it’s a basic foundation for human interaction that is regarded as the golden rule.

When asked why the company supports the media apostolate, he quipped: “Nowadays, what is being spread is not good news, it’s all bad news. So I think it’s a good way to support the media apostolate. Let’s support the mission. Let’s go hand in hand in spreading the good news and in treating well our fellow.”

MERCY AND COMPASSION

Olbez measures his faith through his life’s experiences. He remarkably emphasized that every day there is a challenge that should be faced and loads of worthy events that must be reflected on. “Those encounters draw me closer to the One that I believe. So one of my measures of faith is my existence— how I live my age every now and then.”

For him, the expression of faith and how it should be measured should not only be seen by its grandest forms, rather in the simple and ordinary happenings in life.

“This very occasion (conversation) is already a concrete example that there is God because you are sent here to probably again recall my faith in Him. You have questions that would really help me get back to myself”, he remarked.

As the Jubilee of Mercy is greatly emphasized this year, the interpretation of it should be applied not just through words but most especially through actions. And with this ideology, Olbez highly believes that mercy starts at home—how he treats his children, wife, extended families, relatives and friends— and then expanded to community and work.

“I considered them as my home. Mercy starts with these people—how I relate with them and associate with them humanly. Mercy is not just about giving things that we literally see but it is giving justice to these people that could be assessed on how we treat them”, Olbez concluded. Read more about EMCOR’s Christmas promo via www.emcor.com.ph