corporate social responsibility companies

• Leadership and Csr - a Perfect Match: How Top Companies for Leaders Utilize Csr As a Competitive Advantage

Today the need for leaders -- able, inspired and capable ones -- is greater than ever. Leaders must not only have the capacity to lead complex organizations with global scope and scale, they must demonstrate visionary thinking, and an ability to execute, uphold the highest ethical standards, and develop others at all levels. They also must understand the business as a whole and build influential relationships with customers and stakeholders. Finding, developing and accelerating such capability is not so easy. In Hewitt's 2007 Top Companies for Leaders study -- which identifies companies who attract, develop, and retain leaders best -- 30% of companies reported concerns with losing developed talent to competitors and 61% reported an insufficient leader pipeline. One vital way these compa...

... see such initiatives, broadly called "corporate social responsibility/' as a strategic weapon in t...

• HR. Human Resource Planning
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 3, July 2008

• Consumer Electronics Companies Lead Ratings of Corporate Social Responsibility, According to Pike Research.

BOULDER, Colo. -- Environmental considerations and sustainability issues have long been a part of business metrics and corporate image. The environmen...

• Business Wire
• October 10, 2011

• Europe's Electricity Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility ; European Works Councils - Poorly Informed and Consulted

BRUSSELS, June 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- This new report looks at the European electricity companies, CSR policies and involvement of the European Works Councils (EWCs). __ - All major European energy companies included - e.g EDF,

• U.S. Newswire
• January 18, 2011

• More Than Just Making Money

The recently held MIA-AFA Conference 2011 touched on how corporate social responsibility has evolved over the years and what's expected of companies now. The term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been bandied around for quite some years now. Initially adopted as a philanthropic move, CSR had evolved over the years. Today, it is increasingly expected, and in some cases, a compliance requirement.

• Malaysian Business
• November 30, 2011

• Monitor Group Recognized as one of the Top 100 Companies in China for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Selected from more than 3,000 firms, Monitor represents the very top tier of Chinese and Multinational companies in China known for their excellence i...

• Business Wire
• June 22, 2010

• Corporate Social Responsibility in Italy: State of the Art

The Italian Corporate Panorama is permeated by various corporate social responsibilities initiatives, both at private and public level, that derive from different approaches and tools. The general framework for corporate social responsibility (CSR) behavior and strategies consists of the Green Paper presented by the European Commission in July 2001. Within this framework, the paper aims at analyzing three main issues: spontaneous experiences from companies and other players; the innovative project called Corporate Social Responsibility - Social Commitment, developed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, which aims at promoting the involvement of Italian enterprises in CSR activities, with particular regard to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises; and lastly the main and most inter...

• Journal of Business Strategies
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 1, April 2006

• Corporate social responsibility: many of today's corporate stakeholders are calling for increased sustainable development. More and more companies are heeding that call, while simultaneously realizing performance gains.

IN THE POST-ENRON ERA, THE NUMBER of companies reporting their social and environmental impact on society has increased immeasurably. Indeed, to its m...

• Internal Auditor
• Vol. 62 Nbr. 1, February 2005

• Getting It Right

The governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Norway, in collaboration with extractive industry companies and NGOs with an interest in human rights and corporate social responsibility, developed the Voluntary Principles. [...] companies are able to assist in creating social, health and economic programs funded and staffed by the community.

• Journal of International Peace Operations
• Vol. 5 Nbr. 5, March 2010

• Corporate social responsibility: hard choices on soft issues; Pro-environmental announcements from global giants like General Electric and JPMorgan Chase have spotlighted corporate social responsibility. Yet, there's no mandate to promote such issues in the U.S., where some companies are clearly more proactive than others. Meanwhile, Europeans have brought 'green' issues to the forefront.

Between 1917 and 1925, Henry Ford oversaw creation of the gigantic Rouge River plant in Dearborn, Mich. A marvel of engineering at the time, it was th...

• Financial Executive
• Vol. 21 Nbr. 6, July 2005

• The Innovation Administration

In the 1990s, business schools promoted the idea of "corporate social responsibility," which held that government regulation wasn't needed in order for companies to do the right thing for the environment or public health. [...] the administrations social-innovation push maybe most useful for its signaling effect. The administration's concept of social innovation injects government into the philanthropic sector as a sort of tastemaker, hopefully influencing charities to advance progressive public policy ideas without the federal government having to spend too much more money.

• American Prospect, The
• Vol. 20 Nbr. 9, November 2009