Nowadays you are guaranteed to come across the term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on a fairly regular basis, be it in your company, in the news, on the street or with family and friends. While for some people this is the latest hot topic, to others it sounds more like a broken record. CSR goes...

Hello and Welcome What is this? It's a chance for the people who want to see CSR websites brought together as a force for good to exchange thoughts and ideas. It's also a chance for those people who are taking an active role in developing this concept, and may be guiding some of the thinking...

Joanna, thanks for your query. I'm sure TFC will reply, but in the meantime, is there anyone out there that can share any of their success stories. Any HRDs/heads that have managed to juggle their new green/CSR/corporate responsibility agenda (whatever you like to call it) with their existing HR...

The cynical part of me wonders through, TFC, whether heaping CSR onto/into the HRD's agenda would not just 1) increase already stretched workload and 2) send mixed messages about the value of an HR function in its own right? I admire your "blue-sky" thinking I really do, but I wonder how...

Dear Ed HR would just be consumed by the wave of responsible business practice. TFC's thinking is more about philosophy than functionality (the devil is in the detail - but the devil may take that bit as far as I'm concerned). By all means continue to have an HR team to look after people and...

So are you saying HR as a function should be abolished altogether to be replaced by this new dynamic business function? What would you call this new dynamic business function?

Dear Natalie That would mean that they are even more retrograde in their thinking than I had given them credit for. I would argue that CSR sits across the whole of an organisation anyway, but the concept of HR reporting to CSR would not be as straightforward as changing an org chart - it would need an...

Filth columnist, You write in your opinion piece 'HR director? Nah, I'm a revolutionary' that CSR should report into HR, yet, a whole load of HR people don't even know where CSR sits within the organisation, let alone get involved in the various environmental committees springing up in...