Advanced Corporate Social Responsibility
Short course
In Hammersmith
Learn about the different perspectives on and definitions of CSR!
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Type
Short course
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Location
Hammersmith
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Duration
9 Days
Would you like to give an impulse to your professional life? If so, you should check this Advanced Corporate Social Responsibility course, organized by London Business Training & Consulting, that Emagister.co.uk has added to its catalogue.
This training is suitable for heads of organisations, chief officers, chairpersons, board members and directors; heads of departments, and senior managers & executives interested in corporate social responsibility (CSR); managers of tomorrow who wish to develop modern business practices and find ways to act in a truly responsible way.
It is also targeted to those who see business as being increasingly central to addressing global concerns and society’s expectations of going beyond wealth creation, against a backdrop of financial crises, climate change, political shifts, and population growth; those who want their business to maximise profits whilst also being publicly accountable for its social and environmental record; those who are concerned about the role of business in modern society.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand the context within which contemporary CSR has flourished; the different perspectives on and definitions of CSR; the values that companies are being asked to uphold; the main issues with which contemporary CSR is wrestling; what is meant by the term‘sustainable development’; among other things.
So, if you want more information about this programme contact London Business Training & Consulting through Emagister.co.uk without hesitation. You won’t regret it!
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Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
The context within which contemporary CSR has flourished.
The different perspectives on and definitions of CSR.
The values that companies are being asked to uphold.
The main issues with which contemporary CSR is wrestling.
What is meant by the term‘sustainable development’.
The evolution of sustainability.
The evidence provided by scientific reports into issues of climate change.
The challenges that sustainable development poses for ‘business as usual’.
New models of sustainable business.
The capital market implications of sustainable development.
The ‘social’ aspects of sustainability.
The role of business in social and economic development.
What it means for business to be an agent of development.
The circumstances under which business takes on a developmental role.
Heads of organisations, chief officers, chairpersons, board members and directors; heads of departments, and senior managers & executives interested in corporate social responsibility (CSR); managers of tomorrow who wish to develop modern business practices and find ways to act in a truly responsible way; those who see business as being increasingly central to addressing global concerns and society’s expectations of going beyond wealth creation, against a backdrop of financial crises, climate change, political shifts, and population growth; those who want their business to maximise profits whilst also being publicly accountable for its social and environmental record; those who are concerned about the role of business in modern society.
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Subjects
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Governance
- Market
- Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Climate Change
- Global
- Consulting
- Financial
- CSR
- Stakeholder
- Financial Training
- Climate
- Values Motivation
Course programme
- Why CSR?
- Definitions of CSR
- Corporate governance
- A framework for understanding CSR
- Values motivation
- Limitations of CSR frameworks
- Meanings of ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’
- Climate change and global warming
- The challenge to business
- New models of sustainable business
- Capital markets and sustainable development
- Signals to the market
- Rewarding financial intermediaries
- Development agent or development tool?
- Theories of development
- The business-poverty framework
- Business as a cause for poverty
- Business as poverty’s victim
- Business as a solution
- Assessing the business response
- The meaning of ‘globalisation’
- Influence of globalisation on business
- CSR as a response to globalisation
- Unmet challenges
- Understanding what companies want from CSR
- Qualities of good CSR management
- Structuring the CSR function
- CSR as strategy
- The business case for CSR
- Theories of corporate governance
- The ‘drivers’ of corporate governance reform
- International developments in corporate governance
- Commentary from a CSR perspective
- The nature, challenges and emergence of CSR reporting
- The upsurge in CSR reporting since the early 1990s
- Conventional financial reporting and CSR reporting
- Reporting issues for corporate management
- Meaning and origins of stakeholder
- CSR standards
- Stakeholder consensus: deviance and uniformity
- Government and governance
- The origins and development of SRI
- Sustainable investing
- Types of SRI analysis and practice
- Engagement
- Other SRI approaches
- SRI performance
- SRI index performance
- SRI fund performance
- Market growth
- Trends in SRI
Advanced Corporate Social Responsibility