Global Compact International Yearbook 2014
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues. This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context? The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data". Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Other issues are : Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International. Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
Fighting poverty and global warming are key challenges for mankind. „This year we are laying the groundwork for success in 2015 on three fronts: achieving the Millennium Development Goals, adopting a meaningful new climate agreement, and establishing a new vision for a sustainable future“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2014 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by macondo publishing the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues.
This years´ focus lies on the Post-2015 Agenda. We discuss the transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals. Question are among others: Are the concepts compatible? How does the architecture of a sustainable future look like? And above all: What role does corporate responsibility play in this context?
The second key aspect in our Post-2105 discussion is about measuring the SDGs. In the past indicators have been developed and used in reporting progress toward the MDGs, and now the approach to upcoming SDGs must be systematically developed. This section also includes lessons from innovation management and "big data".
Climate change is another focus of teh yearbook. It counts on very prominent authors like Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of the German government and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy.
Other issues are :
Traceability: How certification brings positive impacts and better traceability to business. Elaborated NGO inputs by Karin Kreider, the Executive Director of the ISEAL Alliance and one of the world’s leading experts on credible certification and eco-labeling, as well as Markus Arbenz, Executive Director of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) and Caroline Hickson, Director of Brand, Communications and Strategic Partnerships at Fairtrade International.
Mandatory CSR: When CSR discussions started in the late 1960s, early 1970s ethical and moral arguments were the drivers. Since then CSR activities have become more holistic and professional. This becomes a principle-based approach in which business seeks to identify smarter business models, products, and services. Elmer Lenzen illuminates the boder zone between voluntary and mandatory CSR.
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Good Practice<br />
Labour Standards<br />
Branches where mobility replaced mailmen and mailwomen<br />
Administration 3.7 %<br />
Security 5.0 %<br />
Retail 4.5 %<br />
Education 4.1 %<br />
Remaining 28.1 %<br />
Passenger transport 6.6 %<br />
Production and Engineering 6.6 %<br />
Recreation and Tourism 3.7 %<br />
Transport and Logistic 10.3 %<br />
Business services 7.4 %<br />
Self-employment 5.0 %<br />
Care and welfare 12.8 %<br />
Government 2.1 %<br />
operations to the declining mail volume.<br />
In addition, PostNL has plans to reduce<br />
staff jobs by almost half.<br />
PostNL agreed to a socially responsible<br />
workforce reduction in 2007. The applicable<br />
collective labor agreement provides for<br />
early retirement schemes for employees.<br />
For other employees, PostNL installed its<br />
own redeployment unit, PostNL Mobility,<br />
which aims at supporting employees moving<br />
from their existing jobs to new jobs<br />
on a voluntary basis.<br />
Mobility program<br />
With this mobility program, the company<br />
aims at preparing employees for other<br />
job opportunities and supporting them<br />
in employment outside the company via<br />
consultations, workshops, coaching, and<br />
achieving qualifications. Besides individual<br />
coaching, the program includes<br />
“Job-seeks-Worker” projects, in which<br />
project managers can build a network of<br />
interesting and reputable employers with<br />
multiple vacancies. Also, presentations<br />
and guided tours at potential employers<br />
are part of the program. Typical branches<br />
that PostNL looks at are transport and logistics,<br />
public transport, security (private<br />
and public), and technique / production.<br />
The program for professional staff<br />
that was developed in 2012 to support<br />
them in finding new jobs was further<br />
expanded in 2013. This program, called<br />
“Mobility| PRO,” plays a prominent role<br />
in counseling highly educated people<br />
in their search for a new job. For the<br />
Mobility|PRO population, specific events<br />
are held with topics such as “Your own<br />
startup company.” But people can also<br />
choose to participate in various workshops<br />
with topics such as “Moving on in<br />
a professional way,” social media, and<br />
future perspectives. In addition, there are<br />
opportunities for assessments, vocational<br />
testing, interview training, and receiving<br />
financial advice.<br />
Results and impact<br />
Between 2006 and 2013, more than 7,500<br />
employees left PostNL with the help of<br />
its mobility program. Compared to previous<br />
years, the number of employees that<br />
are leaving the company is decreasing.<br />
This is due to the fact that the pool of<br />
full-time employees in production has<br />
become smaller.<br />
In 2013 more than 950 of our highly<br />
educated professional staff have used<br />
one of the services of Mobility|PRO.<br />
Hans Smit, security officer at amsterdam<br />
airport Schiphol, with help from mobility:<br />
“I had enjoyed working at PostnL for 22 years<br />
but when I realized that thousands of people<br />
would have to leave the company, I decided<br />
to look for new work. mobility funded my<br />
training and now I have a wonderful job here<br />
at Schiphol.”<br />
<strong>Global</strong> <strong>Compact</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Yearbook</strong> <strong>2014</strong> 107
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