Tag: corporate responsibility
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Workplace bullying
Most people spend a staggering percentage of their waking hours at work. This makes it not just worrying but totally unacceptable when they have to...
Business leaders for sustainability
The 11th National Business Leaders’ Forum on Sustainable Development was held at Parliament House, Canberra on 27 and 28 May 2010. A group of...
2009 Corporate Responsibility Index
In the wake of the global financial crisis, one group of Australian and New Zealand companies has emerged as true leaders and champions of corporate...
Reflecting on the Corporate Responsibility Index
The Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI) is a strategic management tool that helps improve corporate responsibility by providing a systematic process...
In conversation with Maria Simpson
Telstra has a long association with St James Ethics Centre and is a great supporter of its National Responsible Business Practice Project. Telstra...
The ethics of catastrophic risk
The tortuous path of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) through Federal Parliament represents an absolute low point in the development of Australian...
An Australian focus for the Global Compact
To commemorate the launch of the United Nations Global Compact Network in Australia Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global...
The ethics of the global financial crisis
As the leaders of the G20 group of countries sat down to discuss their response to the world’s economic woes, Simon Longstaff asked that they...
Reporting corporate responsibility
May 2008 saw the completion of the fifth Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI) in Australia and New Zealand. Forty companies participated in the...
A new era of responsible business
Managed by St James Ethics Centre in partnership with The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Ernst & Young, the Corporate Responsibility Index is...
September 11: six months on
Six months after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, much of the discussion about how best to respond to the evolving situation has focussed...
The concept of 'sustainability'
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the concept of 'sustainability' – not least because business leaders and canny advocates for the...
Balancing shareholders' needs with corporate philanthropy
Some people think that it is wrong for public companies to donate money to charities. Or more precisely, they object to corporate philanthropy unless...
So how will we choose?
My topic is about a search of sorts that began in Cambridge in 1990. On hearing of my decision to return to Australia to head up an ethics centre...
Excesses of the 1980s
I am about half way through reading Trevor Sykes' excellent, disturbing book The Bold Riders. Sykes' challenges the reader a number of ways. Whilst...
Pausing on the road to OK Tedi
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. As far as proverbs go, this one has a particularly unnerving quality as it seems to deny any saving...
The 'knowledge society'
In recent times there has been growing argument in favour of developing organisations, and in particular corporations, that can harness the power of...
Ethics and the control of crime against business
Contents: An oblique reference Two brief scenarios Maintaining legitimacy The valid exceptions Conclusion An oblique reference The explosion of...
2005 Corporate Responsibility Index
The views expressed in this article by Simon Longstaff are solely those of St James Ethics Centre and explicitly are not those of, or endorsed by,...
Corporate social responsibility
One of the most significant changes to affect the business environment, in recent years, has been the growing interest in questions to do with the...
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