csr

CSR stands for corporate social responsibility. Proper CSR is a conscious attempt by corporations to act ethically. CSR has also become a marketing advantage. Businesses can promote their ethical approach to employees, the environment, human rights, fair trade, honest marketing, ethical selling, community involvement, and policy transparency.

CSR might also be abused by enacting ethical policies without actual intention for the sake of liability, marketing, or to appear within compliance. A notable example of this is Enron’s seventy-five page code of ethics.

Evidence indicates that consumers are willing to pay more for items and services believed to be ethically produced. One study even indicates that consumers punish unethical business. There are many blogs that discuss various aspects of CSR.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “csr”

• The 10 worst retailers for exploiting foreign workers

  
  Governance Focus — Authority: 150
  Britain’s major high street retailers are continuing to exploit workers in the developing world and some of the more upmarket chains are the worst offenders, according to new research. Labour Behind the Label, a group campaigning against sweatshop conditions, surveyed 25 major retailers and found that not a single ...
  3 hours ago

• The rot spreads

  
  Governance Focus — Authority: 150
  A survey reveals that desperate times have led to illegal measures THE recession has taken its toll on morals as well as profits. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a consulting and accounting firm, has conducted a biennial survey of economic crime for the past ten years. The most recent, published on November 19th, is ...
  12 hours ago

• Qualfon Philippines CSR Initiative: Buagsong, Cordova Mangrove Planting

  
  LAGAHIT.COM — Authority: 426
  I would just like to highlight Qualfon Philippines CSR initiative last Saturday wherein thirty(30) of their supportive employees (agents, support staff and supervisors) went to Buagsong, Cordova, Cebu to join the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP) Mangrove Planting activity.Once again, in ...
  2 days ago

• CSR Blog

  
  Integration Training Journal - Mark Walsh Brighton, Sussex, UK — Authority: 128
  Good blog on CSR (corporate social responsibility) from David Coethica. Includes this video on climate change...Looks like were all going to die unless we really get it together.
  2 days ago

• Postal Service Releases First Sustainability Report

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  The US Postal Service is in financial dire straits. It lost $3.8 billion in its most recent fiscal year, ending September 30th, and its available coffers are dangerously low. And then there’s the agency’s business model, which many argue is antiquated and unsustainable. But, according to its recently-released (and ...
  2 days ago

• Looking Back/Looking Ahead: The Start of a Conversation

  
  Innovation + Responsibility — Authority: 93
  Today we are going to start a new experiment. My colleague - Suns Corporate Sustainability Program Manager, Lori Duvall - and I are going to engage in a cross-blog dialog. A "diablog" if you will.  The idea behind this diablog is to help us during these uncertain times to keep looking forward, even as our ...
  3 days ago

• Interview with Sonya Maldar, Extractive Industries Policy Officer for CAFOD

  
  Fair Trade Jewelry — Authority: 408
  Introduction: Sonya Maldar of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) discusses CAFOD’s recent campaign, focusing on the retail jewellers and the challenge eliminating dirty gold from the jewelry supply chain. By Greg Valerio(Greg Valerio is a fair trade jewellery campaigner. He is the founder of CRED ...
  3 days ago

• CH2M Hill Cuts Paper Use by 21% from 2006 to 2008

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 635
  CH2M HILL, a global consulting, design, construction, and operations firm, has decreased per employee paper usage 21 percent between 2006 and 2008 and increased electronic waste recycling by almost 4 percent in 2008, according to the company’s 2009 Sustainability Report (PDF).Here are some highlights of the ...
  3 days ago

• Sustainability Requires Continuing Dialogue

  
  Max Gladwell — Authority: 93
  It is our first guest post here at Max Gladwell and we are excited to be contributing to the thought leadership here. So why we chose this topic is that a surprisingly small percentage of the general public knows that a corporate conversation around sustainability even exists, let alone that they can participate in ...
  3 days ago

• A Marketing Challenge for the Electric Utility Industry

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  “95.6% of households are willing to change their energy consumption behavior to save money on their energy costs.” This finding comes from the 2009 Nielsen Energy Audit. “This survey strongly suggests the timing is right for utilities to engage their customers with green marketing initiatives,” explains ...
  3 days ago

• MAC Cosmetics’ artists hit the streets to commemorate World Aids Day

  
  Lucire: Insider — Authority: 132
  On November 27, 45 make-up artists from MAC Cosmetics’ stores throughout New Zealand will participate in volunteer events to commemorate World Aids Day (December 1).    They will hit the streets in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to sell red ribbons, funds from which will go to the Wellness Fund.    The ...
  4 days ago

• Hidden Shoal Free Label Sampler Volume 5

  
  Hidden Shoal Recordings — Authority: 131
  Hidden Shoal Recordings is pleased to announce the official release of compilation album Crushed and Reminded , the fifth installment in its free sampler album series. Whilst the keen eyed amongst you may have already noted that this has has been available for a few weeks now, we thought we’d allow some breathing ...
  4 days ago

• Justice -- Indonesian Style?

  
  The RAB Experience — Authority: 128
  Sometimes there are certain events that just leave you shaking your head and saying, "what were they thinking?" This is one of those moments. In the grand scheme of all things Indonesian the theft of three pods of cacao beans would seemingly rank fairly lowly on the justice meter. This is especially so considering ...
  4 days ago

• What to Report on? How Two CSR Leaders Decide

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  We’ve all seen them.  Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports weighing it at nearly 100 pages, crammed with charts and graphs, and gray with type.  There’s valuable information in there, but unearthing commentary on issues of strategic importance can be daunting.  That’s why I was especially curious to ...
  5 days ago

• Sustainability and Employee Engagement: Anything Goes

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 664
  Engaging employees through sustainability is not a one size fits all approach.  From Walmart’s Personal Sustainability Project to  Sodexo’s Corporate Citizenship Program to Intel’s intranet to FMYI’s online collaboration, the variety is endless.  Each of the four members of the Net Impact Conference 2009 ...
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• CSR achieves WAPI certification for CSR9000 with an innovative hardware accelerated architecture and wins EDN China Innovation Award

  
  indonesia type approval — Authority: 145
  CSR (LSE: CSR) today announced that its award-winning CSR9000 Bluetooth + Wi-Fi product has been certified under China’s Wireless LAN Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI) qualification. CSR’s CSR9000 solution was also awarded the EDN China Innovation Award for Leading Embedded System and IC Product. ...
  6 days ago

• Interview with Opportunity Green 2009 Speaker, Freya Williams, co-founder of Ogilvy Earth

  
  OppGreen Insights — Authority: 131
  OG: So you started The Greenery (now called Ogilvy Earth) while at Ogilvy.  How did you get into that?Freya: While I was on maternity leave, I spent some time thinking about what I really wanted to do.  I saw a business opportunity to help our clients in a more focused way around sustainability.  I also [...]
  6 days ago

• Whirlpool Cuts Water Use by Nearly 22% from 2004 to 2008

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 635
  Whirlpool Corp. is on track to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 6.6 percent by 2012, according to the company’s first global sustainability report. The company also cut water use by 21.5 percent and overall waste generated per unit decreased by nearly 4 percent from 2004 to 2008. The appliance maker also ...
  6 days ago

• Conscious Capitalism/CSR Creates True Fans

  
  The Buzz Bin — Authority: 122
  The really old school capitalists like to say that the only business of business is to provide a return to shareholders. Long before the concept of “stakeholders” came into being, business was conducted, customers and suppliers were treated fairly or not, and it all somehow moved along. Now, companies need to do ...
  1 week ago

• CSR Jobs : ExcelAsia Training and Development Inc.

  
  Philippine Call Center Jobs — Authority: 149
  CSR for *Dayshift Accounts* Apply now! No experience needed! (m1mro217) (National Capital Reg – Quezon City) RESPONSIBILITIES: * A CUSTOMER SERVICE ASSOCIATE handles general customer inquiries like account status and product information. They generally take in account records requests, handle marketing ...
  1 week ago

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