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A NEW APPROACH TO CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is usually taken to mean actions by businesses that add value to their local communities, or indeed to society as a whole, as well as to their shareholders or owners. Advocates of CSR usually think in terms of companies funding, or helping to fund, [...]
Almost two years ago, the Department for Business and Skills (BIS) published a report entitled ‘Engaging for Success’, by David McLeod and Nita Clarke. At the beginning of April there was a high-profile launch of a government-sponsored task force of some 30 government and big-company figures to ‘ensure that a range of practical opportunities are [...]
Writing in the ‘Best Workplaces’ supplement published with the FT on 20 May 2010, Will Hutton, Executive of The Work Foundation, muses why the ‘great place to work’ is not universal, given that it produces such good results for its companies. He writes: “One of the conundrums of the modern workplace is why ‘high performance’ [...]