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New partners for social cohesion
Corporate citizenship used to be seen as an Anglo Saxon phenomenon. Now companies and governments across Europe are seeking new solutions to social problems.
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Business benefits from
volunteering
As plans are developed for a national volunteer scheme, the evidence is growing of the benefits to business from supporting staff involvement
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Rebuilding the employee
compact
Firms need both flexibility and commitment from their workers. A contradiction? Apparently not, so long as they are engaged as stakeholders, according to a diverse range of new reports just published.
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Comment
As with environmental issues, so with employee involvement: the narrow agenda of community affairs is being stretched.
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Summit for the future
David Grayson was in Philadelphia at the end of April for a spectacular display of commitment from the business community to voluntary endeavour for young people. Here is his front-line report.
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Taking care of the carers
Even as Opportunity 2000 celebrates five successful years, the scale of the task ahead looks daunting, but companies are increasingly recognising the benefits of caring for their staff who have caring responsibilities.
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Comment
The buzz words "learning society" and "lifelong learning" tell us where we need to get to. Today's reality is that only one in five adults in Britain can correctly answer 12 simple maths questions, half the number in France, Japan and other major competitors. Is the University for Industry the answer?
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Sir Ronnie to the rescue
Will the Hampel committee on corporate governance break new ground in the debate about to whom companies are accountable and for what?
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Held to account
As the debate about stakeholding continues, two companies make dramatic moves: Britain's largest company promises to undergo social auditing, while America's most aggressive oil company is held to account by its black employees.
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Communicating a better
balance
Joanna Foster, director of the BT Forum, offers a six point plan to improve communication in the workplace and so achieve a better balance for men and women between work and personal life.
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