Megatrend Revija (Jan 2014)

Business as a component mechanism of social protection of population

  • Tsintsadze Asie,
  • Meloyan-Phutkaradze Lilit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5937/MegRev1403049T
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 49 – 56

Abstract

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The social protection of population is a main direction of activities of any government. In modern period social protection of population is proceeding with the help of social policy. Mainly social policy implementation is done by the government. Currently in Georgia the main mechanism for social protection is social insurance, which is carried out by the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs. In Georgia social subsidy agency is responsible for the health insurance and medical programs. Under condition of marketing economy the limitation of interference of government in economy decreased means of social protection. In the modern conditions social protection mechanism should be developed jointly by the government and private sector measures. It becomes necessary to increase the role of business in the social protection of population, which with the difference of charity requests more social responsibility. The most important goal of any government is the effective employment of its population. The research objective is to explore the role of business in the social protection; to set the problems and find the concrete proposals for solving these problems. It is clear that operation of social policy measures can be entirely imposed on the business. As well as the business can ensure effective functioning of the employment level and thus contribute to the development of their own businesses as well as the social policy of government. This paper formulates proposals is direction of the interaction of business and government, their activities for effective social protection of population.

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