Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
Responsible Business Guide: A Toolkit for Winning Companies
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APPENDIX-Dos and Don’ts<br />
This is not RB practice,<br />
DON’T<br />
Because<br />
THIS IS<br />
To adopt RB Practices,<br />
DO<br />
Invite or select board members only based on their<br />
financial expertise and business linkages.<br />
Tunnel vision<br />
Invite business experts with a reputation <strong>for</strong> professional<br />
ethics, social science experts and professionals with global<br />
experience.<br />
Consider donations or haphazard community spending<br />
ceremonies as social responsibility.<br />
Philanthropy<br />
Attempt<br />
Strategic integrated community involvement,<br />
Need based interventions,<br />
HR investment,<br />
Employee involvement and sharing of experience &<br />
expertise with communities,<br />
and implementation of CSR strategies based on<br />
stakeholder involvement.<br />
Consider base compliance with workplace standards and<br />
codes of conduct as social responsibility.<br />
Your legal responsibility<br />
Adopt responsible action with a desire to improve the<br />
workplace and only use standards and codes as benchmarks.<br />
Understand that compliance can save costs.<br />
Be involved in public relations campaigns that focus on<br />
self-appreciation.<br />
Publicity<br />
Spend time defining issues and implementing stated policies.<br />
Real impact speaks <strong>for</strong> itself.