corporate social responsibility program Articles

Ebook: A Practical Guide for CSR Implementation

Looking to implement a Corporate Social Responsibility Program in your organization and not sure where to start? Here is a small eBook to guide you through the typical steps of an effective implementation, you will learn how-to: Prepare Your Implementation Sequence Your Implementation with great SMART Goals Track and Monitor Progress Enjoy and as always, share ...

Mar. 28, 2019

By Carbon-And-More

Corporate volunteerism comes clean (and comes of age)

Here the author examines how a growing number of companies that have adopted corporate social responsibility programs, especially those that harness the immense power of volunteerism, are building the business case for these social investments and encouraging them to take root and grow so they are more than just a passing fad. Jeff Schwartz, CEO of Timberland, a $1.5 billion New Hampshire-based ...

Jul. 1, 2009

By AHC Group

Corporate Social Responsability Benchmark Study: Report Summary

In the context of an ever-changing, globally connected society, businesses face new and different risks in providing goods and services. A new trend for multi-national corporations is to establish corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs to address these risks and move towards opportunity with greater transparency than ever before. For nearly a decade, Environmental Resource Services (ERS) ...

May 1, 2005

By ERS Global

Social response capitalism: Product development strategies for 21st-century innovators and investors

A new set of industrial products — from cars to computers — has shown that leading firms now compete on price, technical quality, and social response. This excerpt from Piasecki's latest book, World Inc., describes the revolutionary development of social response product development (SRPD) within Toyota and Hewlett-Packard. AN ARGUMENT WAITING TO HAPPEN: SUPERIOR PRODUCTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE ...

Jul. 1, 2009

By AHC Group

Why actions speck louder than words

Making the resource revolution a reality can only be achieved if our actions speak louder than our words. The resource revolution comprises many elements, but chief among them is the need for action to be taken to ensure optimal resource productivity across the world. Much has been made of the need for businesses and other organizations to assess the planet’s use of its finite resources ...

Sep. 20, 2017

By TOMRA Sorting GmbH

Four Years Since Rana Plaza: Retailers urged to increase supply chain transparency

Today marks the four-year anniversary of a tragic incident in which 1,134 workers were killed, and thousands more injured, when an eight-story garment factory came crashing down in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital. The Rana Plaza collapse attracted significant media attention toward popular apparel brands sourcing from the factory due to their lack of supply chain oversight. This event and other ...

Apr. 25, 2017

By Assent Compliance Inc.

4 Steps to Engaging Stakeholders in your Sustainability Reporting Process

In a recent blog post, we outlined four simple steps to a materiality assessment that you should consider when developing a corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability program. Now that you’ve identified your internal and external stakeholders and defined the key indicators you plan to measure, the next step is to outline a stakeholder engagement strategy. Below we listed four ...

Sep. 23, 2015

By Intelex Technologies Inc.

5 Common mistakes when implementing CSR and How to avoid them

Corporate social responsibility: sometimes a difficult road to success Implementing a CSR program is not always obvious, here are 5 common mistakes to avoid. 1. BLURRY VISION & BLURRY OBJECTIVES There is nothing worse than not providing a clear direction and objectives to teams. The team will simply not know what to work on, and it will result in lots of confusion, frustration, and ...

May 30, 2019

By Carbon-And-More

Exploring potential power of corporate social responsibility toward sustainability development: analysis of state–owned company social responsibility in Indonesia

The implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Indonesia is mostly forced to follow government rules. Government also enacted some regulations that all state–owned companies (SOCs) allocate some of their profits in CSR programs. This paper attempts to analyse the effectiveness of CSR programs run by SOCs, and to assess the contributions of those programs in addressing social ...

Sep. 10, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Five Ways to Become the MacGyver of Sustainability Reporting!

First things first, why should you track and report on sustainability? There are many ways in which organizations who report on corporate sustainability benefit both internally and externally. From an internal standpoint, Sustainability Reporting provides a deeper understanding of a business’s risks, opportunities, strategic direction, operating efficiency, and how they rank in the market ...

Aug. 26, 2015

By Intelex Technologies Inc.

Once a response company, always a response company

Lamor has responded to oil spill and environmental disasters throughout its history. Deepwater Horizon in 2010. I’m not sure you can call yourself a response company if you didn’t have some type of involvement. It’s almost like a right of passage when it comes to the response world (OSR), the gap year or university days of the oil spill response. The ‘just in time’ ...

Mar. 30, 2020

By Lamor Corporation Ab

MSDS evolution: from document to data to globalization

OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) was first adopted in 1983 for the manufacturing sector. In 1987, the agency expanded the scope of coverage to include all industries where employees are potentially exposed to hazardous chemicals. The catalyst for HCS was the powerful Right-to-Know (RTK) movement that gained momentum in the late 1970s, first at the state level, as it forged ahead to ...

Sep. 1, 2011

By Verisk 3E

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