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Human rights management: getting started
Recent years have seen a growth in societal expectations that companies will act to protect and promote human rights. But how do these expectations apply to companies' operations and activities, and how should companies begin managing these expectations? Rory Sullivan offers a few pointers.
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Guest editorial: Chain
reaction
Will CSR ever penetrate the small business field? Yes, argues David Grayson, but only if large companies exert appropriate influence.
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Preaching what you
practice
The corporate responsibility movement is too concerned with communication and not enough with performance, David Logan argues. There's another option, however, as history shows.
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Vicky Mirfin: keeping
with tradition
One of the oldest City institutions, the Lloyd's insurance market has a long history of charitable support for the local community. Briefing asks the new community affairs manager at Lloyd's about how she plans to bring this philanthropic tradition into the twenty-first century.
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Ed Mayo: Briefing
interview
Briefing speaks with Ed Mayo, new head of the National Consumer Council, who argues that the future of CSR lies in tapping the creative talents of the “ethical minnows”
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Roger Cowe: are CSR
managers in line for a promotion?
The recent furore over executive pay demonstrates that the inner sanctum of many corporate boardrooms still remain beyond the bounds of the humble CSR manager. Here Roger Cowe makes the case for CSR considerations to be promoted onto the corporate governance agenda.
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Ellen West: CSR across
the pond (part one)
European CSR practitioners are wont to comment that their US colleagues just “don’t get it” when it comes to CSR. In the first of a two part article, Ellen West analyses the short and long term factors that are preventing US business from taking up the CSR baton with gusto.
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Roger Cowe: who reads
this stuff?
Although the readership of social reports may still be small, Roger Cowe argues their impact on wider communications is only just being realised.
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Liam Black: grassroots
experience
The introduction of special status ?community interest companies? has generated renewed interest the social enterprise model. Briefing asks the winner of this year?s prestigious ?Social Entrepreneur of the Year? title about what it means to live and breathe the triple bottom line.
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Changing manager mindsets
Equipping managers with the skills to integrate responsibility principles throughout their companies, regardless of business function, is the make-or-break for CSR over the next decade, argues Sue Slipman. Here she outlines plans for a 'CSR Academy' that aims to achieve just that.
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George Cox: navigating
the board game
Establishing corporate social responsibility as the concern of all members of UK boardrooms is the only way to ensure that ?good business? becomes good business, argues George Cox, director general of the Institute of Directors
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