Corporate Social Responsibility Flashcards
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
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- Varying ways an organization can create value beyond traditional profit measures of revenue and expenses
- Includes such areas as philanthropy, volunteerism, corporate-sponsored community programs, social change, sustainability, corporate governance, employee rights, and workplace safety.
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Ways CSR has recently changed
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- Expanded definition to include sustainability
- Moved to center stage from being on the sidelines
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Strategically aligning CSR includes
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- Preparatory research into existing benchmarks,
- Includes:
- international frameworks/guidelines
- Reported results of companies’ CSR efforts and initiatives.
- Includes:
- A CSR strategic development and implementation process.
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Triple bottom line
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- Approach is called full cost accounting or true cost accounting
- Goes beyond the bottom line of profit and loss
- Includes the 3Ps principle of sustainability
- Shows more of the organization’s total value
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3Ps principle of sustainability includes
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- People
- Planet
- Profits
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The goal of tripple bottom line strategy
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- Create a positive ROI in each of the three areas
- Can serve as a scorecard of measures for evaluating if and how to pursue a given product to meet sustainability goals
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Social audit
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- A formal review of an organization’s social and environmental policies and procedures
- Used to understand, measure, report and improve upon the social performance of the organization
- Resembles 360 as it begins by interviewing all stakeholders internal and external and publishes the results that is available to all participants
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Forces shaping CSR
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- Technology
- Environmental concerns
- Economic pressures
- Ex: recruiting and paying for CSR
- Sociopolitical factors
- Ex: civil and social rights (same sex marriage)
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CSR maturity curve steps
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- Compliance
- Integration
- Transformation
A big step is seeing where you are and what steps need tobe taken to move to the higher phase
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Compliance step in CSR maturity curve
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- Social responsibility seen as cost of doing business
- Response to reguatory requirements or negitive publicity
- Efforts are means to show good citizenship but are not a core corporate strategy
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Integration step in CSR strategy
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- Integrated in regular business functions
- Products and services are redesigned to be more responsible and sustainable
- CSR is approached as enlightened self-interest
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Transformation step in CSR stratey
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- Organizations have redefined themslves and their brand to reflect commitment to CSR
- This strategy is used to differentiate them from competitors
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HR involvement in CSR
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- Culture change
- Corporate strategy
- Organizational effectiveness
- Human capital development
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CSR effects what HR functions
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- Employee contract
- Recruiting
- Brand
- Engagement
- How people work
- Accountability and measurement
- Training and leadership development
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Compliance
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State of being in accordance with all national, federal, regional, and/or local laws, regulations, and/or other government authority requirements applicable to the places in which an organization operates.
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Ethics
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- Set of behavioral guidelines that an organization expects all of its directors, managers, and employees to follow to ensure appropriate moral and ethical business standards.
- Focus on behavior focusing according to the core ethical beliefs and convictions about honesty, respect fairness and responsibilities
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Breaches in compliance
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Can create legal issues
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Breaches in ethics
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- Damage public perception of organization
- Hurt brand image - crucial to competitive markets
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Ethical universalism
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- Standardization
- There are fundamental principles that apply across cultures and that global organizations must apply these principles when making decisions in a country, without regard to local ethical norms.
- Organizations may mistake their home-country ethics for universal values
- Fundamental principles may be expressed in different ways on a local level with different priorities
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Cultural relativism
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- Localization
- Ethical behavior is determined by local culture, laws, and business practices
- Organizations may violate its core values and weaken its ethical character
- Difficult for those ouside a culture to gage another culture’s norms correctly
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Areas of supply chain ethics
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- Workplace safety
- Child labor
- Sustainability
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How to ensure socially responsible supplier conduct
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- Inspect their work sites; interview their customers and employees and members of the local community.
- Seek out evidence that legal and ethical behavior is a top priority.
- Develop a code of conduct specifically for suppliers, and stipulate in the partnership agreement that compliance is a condition of doing business.
- Establish procedures for ongoing reporting and monitoring.
- Create a detailed database to track inspection results as well as actions taken in response to any negative findings for every supplier location.
- Use this information to make subsequent decisions related to a particular supplier.
- Assess the broader risks associated with doing business in specific countries, and develop strategies for minimizing them in the future.
- Proactively provide the same information to other organizations for which you are a supplier.
- Due diligence on all potential business partners.
- Research: ethical vulderabilities of home country, work sites and legal and ethical behavior
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Governance
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System of rules and processes set up by an organization to ensure its compliance with local and international laws, accounting rules, ethical norms, internal codes of conduct, and other standards
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Good governance
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- Outcome of assessment of enterprise’s legal, ethical and civic obligations to the communities it serves
- Comes from the top down
- Transparent and accountable to each level and function
- Aims to be ethically internally and externally
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Outcomes of bad governance
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- Customer boycotts
- Shareholder resolutions
- Employee recruitment and retention
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Sustainability
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- Purchasing and using resources wisely
- Balancing economic, social, and environmental concerns, with the goal of securing the interests of present and future generations.
- Analyzed in terms of the 3Ps
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The 3Ps
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- People
- Planet
- Profits
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Sustainability sweet spot
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- Where the 3Ps overlap
- Benefits people, the environment and the organization’s budget
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Sustainability stakeholders include
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- All those affected by the organization’s social, environmental and economic impact
- Ex: shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, regulators and local communities
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Stakeholder alliances and partnerships
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- Done with outside stakeholders
- Includes:
- Nongovernmenral organizations (NGOs)
- Community organizations
- Government agencies
- Other companies
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Nonprofits and an external stakeholder partner
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- Offer on the ground knowledge of a community
- Specialized skills
- Credibility
- Ability to buy down start-up costs
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Government agencies as an outside stakeholder partner
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- Leverage infrastructure
- Develop policy frameworks
- Reduce investment risks
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Shared value
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- Win/win
- Creates economic value in a way that it creates value for the society by addressing needs and challenges
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How organizations can create shared value
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- Reconceiving products and markets
- Ask if the product is good for their customers
- Redefining productivity in the value chain
- Reduce waste, minimize resources and ensure health and safety of employees
- Enabling local cluster development
- Related organizations (related businesses, suppliers and schools)
- Infastructure (roads, water, energy supply)
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
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- Create guidelines from the International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Recomended and voluntary adherence
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OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises includes these topics
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- Disclosure
- Human rights
- Employment and industrial relations
- Environment
- Combating bribery, bribe solicitation, and extortion
- Consumer interests
- Science and technology
- Competition
- Taxation
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The Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards)
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- Universally accepted standards for reporting the results of an organization’s sustainability programs
- Improves transparency in reporting results to stakeholders
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GRI standards include
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- Economic
- Environmental
- Social
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ISO 26000
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- Quality standard that provides guidance on key themes of social responsibility
- Provides principles of social and environmental responsibility as well as guidance for action and expectations for implementation.
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CSR strategic process
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- Executive commitment
- Assessment
- Infrastructure creation
- Plan implementation
- Measuring, reporting and evaluation
- Reassessment and revison
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Benefits of CSR strategy
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- Improves ability to attract and retain top talent
- Enhances innovation and new product development by pursuing sustainability sweet spots
- Cuts cost of operations, transportation and energy use
- Increases brand image value
- Reduces sanctions through improved compliance measures
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The three areas of CSR value creation
Where it captures value
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- Growth
- Returns on capital
- Risk management
- Includes compliance and corporate reputation and branding
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CSR assessment components
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- Reviewing systems and procedures to evaluate current sustainability
- Gather input from internal and external stakeholders
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CSR assement of the organization looks at
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- Any current CSR systems and processes
- Operations, products and services, transportation and logistics, employee relations, marketing
- Global - review of subsidiaries and differences that a CSR strategy will need to consider
- The supply chain
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CSR infrastructure is responsible for
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Guiding, overseeing, administering, reviewing and championing CSR strategy
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Reasons why HR should be involved in implementing a CSR strategy
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- Ensures that the policy will be translated into actions, not just PR
- Puts HR in higher and more strategic level in the organization
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CSR plan impementation tasks
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- Set the strategy
- Set priorities and objectives
- Clear steps and long-term objectives
- Define results and who is accountable
- Implement the plan action created
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Components of a compliance program
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- Be supported by a corporate culture
- Have educational component that provides rules of conduct and decision making guidance
- Ongoing monitoring, auditing and evaluation
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Approaches to CSR evaluation
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- Process evaluation of the compliance program monitors components and outputs
- Measures what program activities were preformed and their outputs
- Outcomes evaluation aiming at the actual results from the program
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How to measure, report and evaluate CSR strategy
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- Use GRI Standards criteria as basis
- Align goals to the measurement and evaluation
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Reassessment and revision of CSR strategy includes
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- Looking at the sustainability
- Have infrastructure and processes in place to provide clear sense of progress achieved, victories won and next steps
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Corporate philanthropy includes
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- Charitable donations to existing causes
- Foundations and award grants or sponsorships to invidiuals or organizations
- Strategic partnerships with nonprofit organizations
- Create and manage entity to administer and provide community, social, or environmental services
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Benefits from employee volunteerism
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- Engagement and motivation
- Teamwork capabilities, leadership skills and interpersonal skills
- Strengthens corporate culture
- Corporate reputation
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Advantages of Globally Integrated Programs
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- Fewer relationships and designees means lower operating costs.
- Single focus offers opportunity for greater shared learning.
- Dominant relationship with single cause may strengthen organization’s brand and lessen appearance that organization is exploiting cause.
- Favorite programs of local managers are less likely to be singled out for support.
- Single focus may magnify effect of donations.
- Risk to the organization from association with multiple, little-known causes is reduced.
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Advantages of Locally Responsive Programs
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- Local managers are better judges of local stakeholder demands.
- Local stakeholders (both governments and consumers) may be influenced by local philanthropy.
- Organization can create impact most needed by each country.
- Competitors are less likely to copy organization’s efforts.
- Having multiple nonprofit partners diminishes donor fatigue.
- Risk is spread out across nonprofit partners.
