CSR/volunteering/business ethics
We want to showcase progressive, innovative, and forward thinking employers who are leading the way in developing their employees, while also bringing about social benefit. Are you making a real difference and providing life changing experiences for both your employees and the person or community you are helping? If so, we'd love for you to share your stories. Please email Natalie Cooper, our editor: natalie@changeboard.com if you're interested in taking part.
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Your CSR initiatives
- What are they
- Who came up with the concepts?
- How do you manage to get employee buy-in
- How important is it to work in partnership with a charity/not for profit
- How are these initiatives communicated to staff
Employee engagement
- Are employees looking for more meaning and purpose within their career
- How does your organisation align its values to those of your employees
- Ethical leadership – why do you think employers/leaders have a duty to embrace business ethics, CSR, volunteering
- How are you able to link your CSR initiatives with your long term employee engagement programme
- How did/do you get sign off from the board
- What valuable new skills do your employees learn from taking part in such initiatives
Business case for CSR
- How are you measuring the ROI of CSR
- What tangible business benefits do you think this will bring long term to your business
- Outside of the business, how do your corporate values help you to foster client, customer and employee stakeholder relationships
- How do you use CSR to embrace diversity, for team building, and to develop leadership skills
Results
- What feedback have you had from employees
- What success do you think it will have on the bottom line of the business longer term
- What would be your message to other employers who think CSR is just a waste of time and resource, PR tick-box exercise and has no tangible impact on the bottom line of the business
- What’s your next step/future plans