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First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Rejecting the Bangladesh Safety Accord

It’s easy to villainize a company like Walmart for being unwilling to sign an agreement seeking to improve safety for workers in Bangladesh. What’s harder is to assess the company’s actual motives, and its obligations. Headlines recently blared that ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - May 17 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Tommy Hilfiger, Condonation

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Hiring the Donor’s Daughter

Nonprofit and charitable organizations face many of the same ethical challenges that other organizations face, but they may also bump into a few special problems from time to time. As an example, consider the following HR dilemma, which was posed to ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - May 16 2013]

Entities: Donor, Donations, Ethical, Unethical, Organism

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Studie: Nur jeder zweite Beschäftigte ist zufrieden

Frankfurt am Main ( csr -news) > Die Stimmung unter Deutschlands Arbeitnehmern verschlechtert sich: Nur noch 52 Prozent von ihnen sind zufrieden mit ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Das ist allerdings für Viele kein Grund den Arbeitsplatz zu wechseln, nur 43 Prozent ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - May 08 2013]

Entities: ManpowerGroup, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

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Why HR Management is Always Ethically Relevant

Ethics should be thought of as the heart of your organization’s HR function. Likewise, HR is likely to be the heart of attempts to manage ethics within your organization. Let me explain why. It’s hard to imagine a function more essential to most businesses ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - May 08 2013]

Entities: Ethical, Performance Evaluation, Enron Corp

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

Tales from the organ trade

Imagine that you live in poverty. A chance arises for you to earn a year's salary in one day. All being well, no one will get hurt. In fact, what you're going to do will save someone's life. Sounds like quite a deal. Or at least it does until until ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Sex-Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Surgeon, black market

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Bangladesh, Joe Fresh and the burden of responsibility

In Bangladesh, on Wednesday, a building collapsed, killing at least 260 people. The factories in the building made garments for a number of global retailers, including Canada’s Joe Fresh . This weekend, I’m very likely going shopping at Joe Fresh, and ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Encumbrance, Cheap

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Does the Right Tone at the Top Guarantee Success? Part 1

I spent the morning today speaking at Centre for Accounting Ethics Symposium called “Accounting Ethics and Tone at the Top.” I was part of a panel discussion that took on the provocative question of whether positive ethical tone at the top ensures ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Ethical, Rationalization, Leadership, admiration, Tolerance

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

The Business Significance of the ‘Trolley Problem’

There’s a famous philosophical thought experiment known as “ the Trolley Problem .” It goes roughly like this. Imagine one day you see a trolley — the famous San Francisco variety, or something more like a Toronto streetcar — hurtling along its track. ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Ethical, Toronto, San Francisco (United States)

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

Corporate Responsibility in Europe: Government Involvement in Sector-specific Initiatives

The sector-specific approach to Corporate Responsibility (CR) has attracted little attention so far, although the industrial sector is a key variable in any company’s economic environment. Therefore, this book introduces sector-specific CR as a way to ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

Cream, Sugar, and Choice

Is the customer always right? Is it more important to protect consumers, or to give them options and let them choose? This is a real-life dilemma that was posed to me recently. I’ve changed the names and some other details in what follows, but the basic ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Sugar, White Sugar, Organic, Coffee

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Is Fare by Weight Fair?

Is it fair to charge airline passengers based in part on weight? That’s the plan recently announced by Samoa Air, and it’s a plan that is raising a few eyebrows. Yes, it’s an ethical issue. But no, there’s no clear answer. Interestingly, the mainstream ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Samoa Air, Ethical, Carbon Tax, environmental impact

First reported Apr 09 2013 - Updated Apr 09 2013 - 1 reports

Better Storytelling Means More Value

Greenwashing is a big problem in CSR. But so is boring communication. … [ visit site to read more ] ... [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Apr 09 2013]

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"How does one use film to describe a woman who thinks?"

"How does one use film to describe a woman who thinks?" [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Mar 29 2013]

...the infographic has been created by an organization promoting online accounting degrees (we might add that their other Featured Article is titled " 10 Accounting Tricks the 1% Use to Dodge the Taxman ", which is also worth a look). Are they saying that an accounting degree will help avoid some of these problems in the future? That what we need are better accounting degrees? That an on-line offering is in any way more or less likely to lead people to engage in shady accounting practices? Clearly there is an important role for accounting education in here somewhere, but we're not too sure about the offerings being recommended by Accounting-degree.org, or even who the organization is or what its methodology is. In the spirit of good accounting, a little more transparency would be a good thing. But don't let that stand in the way of enjoying a nice infographic."

Fun facts about corporate accounting scandals [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Mar 11 2013]

...and its great advice for getting started in employment engagement. As Gareth Kane from Terra Infirma , who put the video together says, "It's deliberately lightweight, but it carries an important message - ditch the eco-cliches and put yourself in your colleagues' shoes."

A 2 minute lesson on employee engagement for sustainability … that will make you smile [Published CSR NEWS | csr-news.net » +english - Feb 21 2013]

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Rejecting the Bangladesh Safety Accord [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - May 17 2013]
Hiring the Donor’s Daughter [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - May 16 2013]
Studie: Nur jeder zweite Beschäftigte ist zufri... [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - May 08 2013]
Why HR Management is Always Ethically Relevant [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - May 08 2013]
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Does the Right Tone at the Top Guarantee Succes... [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - Apr 20 2013]
The Business Significance of the ‘Trolley Problem’ [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - Apr 18 2013]
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CEO Pay for Performance in Canada [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - Mar 11 2013]
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Can Big Pharma Learn to Self-Regulate? [Published CSR NEWS \| csr-news.net » +english - Feb 28 2013]
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