Julien’s posterous

When it comes to developing a sens of corporate responsibility, organizations typically go through five stages as they move along the learning curve:

1. Defensive stage - Companies denies links between business practices and abuse.
2. Compliance or managing reputational risks stage - Company sets up policies that are confined to the minimum necessary to negate criticism and preserve reputation.
3. Management buy-in stage - Company takes responsibility for managing its social and environmental impacts.
4. Strategic stage - Company aligns its business model with societal expectations and integrates social and environmental concerns into core business practices and decision-making.
5. Civil stage - Company actively encourages others companies and stakeholders in its sector to raise standards of the industry as a whole.

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Recently, I asked on Twitter what topic should appear in a fashion company's sustainability report.
As usual, I received interesting answers from my followers! Here are three of them:

@PeoplePlanet: source of material/cloth, transport of material, labour standards of those making the clothing, rates of unionisation.

@RACHELMAHON: all the usual stuff plus cotton sourcing policy and stance on size zero models or lack thereof.

@DavidKlingen: I'd like to add a CSR reporting aspect for fashion: "do designers from the 'global south' get a change to get involved?".

I would add a chapter dedicated to child labor and how the company deals with this problem.

Any other suggestion?

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Recently, I tweeted about an interesting article on "CSR and Biodiversity". Usually, when I tweet about interesting CSR articles, I get RT-ed by a few of my "csr-followers". But this time, there has just been one "RT" (I tweeted two times about this article). This raised a simple question: why? I think that there are a few different answers:

• The article was not so interesting. Maybe, but I don't think so!
• Nobody read this tweet. It can be possible. Even if I tweeted two times, it is possible that none of my followers who could have been interested in re-tewweting this was online.
• Nobody read MY tweet. Hey, why not? Being humble cannot hurt me.
• "CSR and Biodiversity" is not a relevant topic. Or more likely: biodiversity is currently not on the CSR agenda. Thinking about that, I don't remember to have read a lot of article on that specific topic. I even think that it is the only one!

So, what's your opinion?

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According to the French version of the GRI G3 Guidelines, external assurance should help determine whether the report provides « une présentation fiable et équilibrée de la performance de l’entreprise ». This statement seems to refer to the "Fiabilité" (Reliability) and the "Equilibre" (Balance) principles.

On the other hand, in the english version, it is said that external assurance should "provide a reasonable and balanced presentation of performance". This statement does not refer as obviously as the French version to the principle of reliability.

Therefore, my question is: does the external assurance have to refer precisely to these two principles, reliability and balance?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Here is the step-by-step approach to social reporting, found on http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/

1. Define social objectives and ethical values of the organization.
2. Be clear about who are the stakeholders of the organization.
3. Establish indicators by which performance against the objectives and values can be measured.
4. Measure performance against the indicators.
5. Gather the views of the stakeholders on the performance of the organization.
6. Report all of the above in as balanced a manner as possible.
7. Submit the report to an independent audit.
8. Publish the report.
9. Gather feedback from stakeholders on the report's findings.
   

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"C'est quand la normalite devient ennuyante que vous devez etre vigilants" - Commandant de compagnie

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J'ai décidé de créer un nouveau blog, dédié à deux sujets qui me passionnent: le développement durable, et la simplicité.

J'ai choisi de l'appeler Simplifier pour durer.

Mon blog Posterous restera toutefois actif!

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I recently "tweeted" about an article I read on the web, and I wanted to share the interesting replies I received.

Here is my original tweet:

Can sponsoring be considered as #csr? I don't think so! http://bit.ly/XiSvm

And here are some of the replies, in no particular order:

@charlesmorrison  that they did it is good. that anybody could deduce how responsible they were as a corporate by this act is bizzare !csr

@mrochte  Only if CSR story is integral to brand, strengths, beliefs of company re:Can sponsoring be considered as csr? http://bit.ly/XiSvm

@britesprite  sponsorship: ha ha , NO! There's a FTSE100 #csr report out there which claims the company bbq as #csr activity!!

@simovox  agreed- I think sponsoring football is called PR-no? what is responsible about it? 

 

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