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CSR Starts with HR: Connecting the Dots

HR Digest

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR), which refers to the ethical and social responsibilities of companies towards society and the environment through building community engagement.

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Is Consumer Non-Durables a Good Career Path?

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Logistics Managers: These professionals oversee the transportation, storage, and distribution of products. Sustainability and Ethical Concerns Increasingly, consumers are concerned about the environmental and ethical implications of the products they buy. They work to optimize supply chain processes for maximum efficiency.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Ethical consumerism is the broad label for companies providing products that appeal to people’s best selves (for example, fair trade coffee or a purchase that includes a donation to a charitable cause). This pessimistic stance stems primarily from the lower sales of ethical brands. We cannot shop our way to a better world.”

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. Uber faced an important challenge in implementing this strategy: It isn’t easy to get people to commit crimes.

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Why I Appreciate Starbucks

Harvard Business Review

At Starbucks, that has meant contributing both money and time to meet local needs in the communities it serves, promoting sustainable farming communities and ethically sourcing coffee, and packaging and transporting its products with sensitivity to their environmental impact. New Orleans brought it back into focus.".

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Seven Lessons American Manufacturing’s Decline Can Teach Any Company

Strategy Driven

Its workforce was inspired and committed. Two of Wells Fargo’s key values are “ethics” and “what’s right for their customers”. How can a company with those supposed ethics commit such an act? The United States destroyed its enemies in World War II because it out-produced them. And yet what they did was clearly neither.

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What Leaders Need To Do To Successfully Resolve A Crisis

Tanveer Naseer

Surgical facilities had to be as close as possible to the battle lines to reduce even further the risks and damage associated with transporting the wounded to urgent care. Commit random acts of leadership at every level Leaders acting like leaders has significance during urgent situations. But one more critical component was needed.

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