Companies need to reconsider their current approach to Corporate Social Responsibility and move from a company-centric CSR to true employee engagement, writes FrontStream president and CEO Bill Wood. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has slowly been gaining traction in the US and Australia for the past five to 10 years.
The MD & CEO of ICICI Bank, Chanda Kochhar, was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship from the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC last week. According to a media release by ICICI, the award was conferred on Kochhar for demonstrating a commitment to the common good – beyond the bottom line. …
April marks the third anniversary of India’s corporate social responsibility law, which requires that corporations above a defined level of financials spend 2% of their profits on CSR programmes. While charity has traditionally been an integral part of the Indian ethos, strategic philanthropy is still a field under formation, Jeri Eckhart-Queenan and Pritha Venkatachalam, …
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Hampton Roads businesses support all different kinds of community involvement, from softball teams to funding local nonprofits. Some are very strategic in their efforts while others do what they can when some need pops up or an event gives them a branding opportunity. What typically is evident, either way, is involvement results from a passion …
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It is quite possible that the modern workforce is in a state of crisis. Several weeks ago Gallup released its latest State of the American Workplace which made for some sober, and very important, reading. Only 33% of employees are ‘engaged’ in their jobs, 51% are not engaged, 16% are actively disengaged. If the …
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