tailieunhanh - Sustaining Business and Peace: A Resource Pack on Corporate Responsibility for Small and Medium Enterprises

So much is clear, that the keeping of the balance in the comprehensive machine process of industry is a matter of the gravest urgency if the productive mechanism is to proceed with its work in an efficient manner, so as to avoid idleness, waste, and hardship. The management of the various industrial plants and processes in due correlation with all the rest, and the supervision of the interstitial adjustments of the system, are commonly conceived to be a work of greater consequence to the community's well−being than any of the detail work involved in carrying. | Sustaining Business and Peace A Resource Pack on Corporate Responsibility for Small and Medium Enterprises Understanding conflict. Building peace. Foreword As the world of business copes with global financial turmoil survival mode is pervading every business. Budget cuts have impacted on corporate responsibility and sustainability work as some companies view these as expendable in contrast to other core business operations. The question is can an organisation afford to invest in corporate responsibility when it must first survive recession We believe corporate responsibility which includes a company s sustainable and ethical engagement with its environment community and wider society is not only desirable but is essential for survival. As poverty conflict and climate change dominate the global agenda businesses now realise the need to combine profits with principles in bold and innovative ways. Sustaining Business and Peace A Resource Pack on Corporate Responsibility for Small and Medium Enterprises is excellent for companies that want to make a change for the better. It primarily addresses Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs and is based on experience from Sri Lanka. Considering how little space the international corporate responsibility debate gives to SMEs the authors felt rightly that this was a gap to fill. More importantly given how seldom companies think about societal tensions and conflicts that surround them its second focus is on contributing to peace as well as sustainability. However the relevance of this resource pack will be evident to businesses of any size in peaceful and war-stricken countries alike. This resource pack will give every business an opportunity to change its own sphere of influence. Irrespective of size every business will have employees operate in a community and depend upon it impact on its surroundings and be impacted by them in turn. Contained in the booklets that follow is a step-by-step approach to embedding corporate .