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In addition, an excel tool for the assessment of the costs of fluctuation and costs and
benefit of activities to improve the work life balance of employees has been
developed and applied in some companies.
All this resulted in an overview on how corporations see the benefits of CSR, how
they implement their activities and relate them to their overall strategy and in an
assessment of costs and benefits of selected projects. Different tools, indicators and
approaches to assess CSR effects were discussed and tested.
The value of the project for demonstration, dissemination and follow up is great, on a
national as well as on an international level. As it was able to show in recent years,
that not environmental protection is expensive, but neglecting environmental
protection becomes expensive, likewise the projects aims to provide the
methodological ground as well as Austrian case studies to show that a similar winwin-situation
exists for corporate social responsibility.
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