We care deeply
about social responsibility and encourage you to do the same.
Ideal Companies: Department of Transportation, CSX, Airlines, Companies that are serious
about their social responsibility to the environment
Following that logic, managers of endowments asking themselves a similar question
about the social responsibility of their portfolios may not have a different answer.
What there was not at Istanbul Fashion Week, however, were any other brands following the example of NEJ and Argande, Yeşilist writes, noting that the last Stockholm Fashion Week, by contrast, had more than 20 eco-designers: «Using organic and ecological fabrics is not just
about social responsibility or sustainability, it makes brands more competitive, more attractive.»
As the debates among artists and intellectuals around a «racially representative art» shifted to discussions
about social responsibility and a «folk» identity, artists like Aaron Douglas increasingly turned to the public arena as a means of addressing art and life in the 1930s.
The pace will be less legislative, more about devolution and more
about social responsibility.»
First up was Stylianos Filopoulos, Managing Director of the Wine in Moderation (WIM) Association, a nonprofit dedicated to educating wine industry participants
about social responsibility.
The need for more careful thought
about social responsibility has not expressed itself only the establishment of the movement of engaged Buddhists.
Concrete proposals become the occasion for educating members
about social responsibility.
What
about social responsibility?
$ PAC is all
about social responsibility and active involvement.
More important, NMI reports a continued «greening» of consumers across the board: The segment of consumers who call themselves «conventional» or «unconcerned»
about social responsibility continues to decline.
Millennials are also more conscious
about the social responsibility exhibited by their employees or employers.
It's worth noting that Gordon's argument
about social responsibility is essentially an argument about the limits that apply to the fundamental moral obligation that lawyers have to faithfully play their role in the larger legal system.
Seeing fellow entrepreneurs throw themselves wholeheartedly into such good causes gives me hope that people's attitudes
about the social responsibilities of business really are changing.
AAAS is engaged in a three - part effort to expand existing knowledge
about the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.
Not exact matches
(For a more detailed take on how to think critically
about your company's CSR agenda, see Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's article, «Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate
Social Responsibility»).
Yesterday, at Canadian Business for
Social Responsibility's annual Forum, I got the chance to ask keynote speaker Stephen Lewis
about the ethics of lobbying.
Forget the hype For today's companies,
social responsibility is not
about marketing and image.
According to the survey, 56 percent of millennials believe CEOs have a greater
responsibility today than in years past to speak up
about social issues, compared to just 28 percent of generation X and baby boomers.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 - Alphabet Inc President Sergey Brin said on Friday that technology companies must take greater
responsibility for the
social impact of their work, his first comments following a year of heightened global awareness
about misuse of digital services.
«There needs to be a balance between commerce and
social responsibility... The companies that are authentic
about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.»
At a recent Nasdaq luncheon Q&A, Schultz was challenged
about his expansive view of «corporate
social responsibility»: Was it not the role of the corporation simply to maximize profits for shareholders, who in turn can use the proceeds to do good in the world if they choose?
A few months ago I took an emotional intelligence test (which didn't leave me feeling particularly good
about myself) and realized that
social responsibility isn't a strong suit for me, especially where the environment is concerned.
It found that corporations that promote their philanthropy and corporate
social responsibility are actually more likely to act irresponsibly in the future, because they may feel moral license to worry less
about potential wrongdoing.
It is the government's
responsibility to step in and provide clarity
about whether
social media is harmful, he explained, in the same way that it sets regulations around smoking and drinking.
Until now, Facebook has tried to weather the PR storm without putting its top executives in the crossfire, generating questions
about their leadership and whether the
social network was really taking
responsibility.
There's plenty of confusion
about what CSR (Corporate
Social Responsibility) is.
Conversations
about Corporate
Social Responsibility — Episode 3 — Part 2 of 2 — Filmed by Julian Liurette — Edited by Paul Klein and Julian Liurette for Canadian Business Online 2009
There's a lot of talk these days
about corporate
social responsibility, and plenty of debate over just what that phrase means.
I've complained ad nauseum
about the fact that there's no clear, agreed - upon definition of CSR (Corporate
Social Responsibility).
«It's not
about corporate
social responsibility.
Maureen Kline writes
about corporate sustainability and
social responsibility.
The shock of the downturn and anger
about the abuses that drove it promise to accelerate preexisting trends toward reduced materialism, commitment to sustainability, higher expectations of corporate
social responsibility, and resentment of cynical marketing that treats people as soulless and mechanical consumers.
Because of the crush of
responsibilities they have, small business owners worry
about the time it takes to keep an audience engaged on
social channels.
«This is a company that has Orwellian levels of data
about us, truly Big Brother - level, but it's behaving as if it has no
social responsibility and is a purely neutral medium of communication,» he said.
Is corporate
social responsibility just
about the giant, camera - friendly donation cheques?
Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt, noted that
social responsibility is not just
about taking care of the environment; it is
about taking care of the whole society.
He launched that challenge right from his first interaction with the class at the program orientation dinner, as he addressed a subject he is particularly passionate
about:
social responsibility.
About Delta Management Group: Delta Management is a boutique search firm with a growing practice in clean tech, corporate
social responsibility and sustainability professionals.
15:03 Shel's insights
about marketing, consumers, and employees who demand authenticity and
social responsibility from businesses link to what we learned
about Millennials during our Millennials in the Workplace series.
In diverse ways these texts are
about responsibility within and for our
social world.
The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of
responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates
social and global change to bring
about greater
social justice.»
His statements
about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees
social and moral
responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.
Social responsibility, in this context, means being aware of and concerned
about the impact of one's actions on others.
While the mainline has a great deal to say
about the
social - structural evils that afflict children, it sidesteps the impact of family breakdown on child well - being and has very little to say
about the
responsibilities that parents have to their children.
Theologians were disturbed by the suggestion that Christian teaching
about God must bear
responsibility for the particular forms taken by
social and political authority.
In either event, religious leaders and FBOs need to make informed decisions, neither rushing haphazardly into new public partnerships without weighing the pros and cons, nor simply dismissing such collaborations without any thought
about what their
social responsibilities might be.
The Apostle's Creed presents us with the Trinity (that is not all it presents, but just an example), which gives us the basic idea that the Gospel is
about community, which then needs to be expanded through the teaching in the church to explain
social justice, kingdom living,
responsibility towards earth - care, etc..
There is no simple relation between this kind of analysis and one's political or religious preferences, but it does provide a broader context in which to speculate
about responsibilities and the constraints of
social circumstances.