We don’t just expect a company to make a profit.
It is also expected to adhere to a certain number of universal values, disconnected from the profit motive, and take action to serve the common good. Alongside financial performance, there is now another set of expectations, known as “extra-financial performance”. With this implacable undertone: failure to act virtuously risks tarnishing one’s reputation, and therefore one’s financial performance.
CSR stems from this paradigm. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Organizational Social Responsibility (OSR) refers to the behavior that companies or organizations choose to adopt in order to maximize their extra-financial performance. This behavior must be formalized: it involves defining a CSR policy and a CSR strategy, accompanied by action plans, monitoring indicators and reporting tools. It also presupposes the appointment of one or more pilots within the company, who often report to senior management.
PACTE Act, mission-driven companies, raison d’être, sustainable development objectives, ISO 26000, anti-corruption, gender equality, responsible purchasing, “name and shame”… For several years now, the institutional and legislative framework has been pushing for CSR to be given greater prominence within companies. How do you go about it without forgetting anything? The AFNOR group has a range of tools to support you, so that you can build a solid CSR policy, monitor it over time, increase your skills, and have your commitments recognized with the right distinctive signs.
In this dossier, you will discover how to implement your CSR policy.
It is essential to understand why and how to develop a corporate social responsibility strategy, and to identify the means to evaluate this strategy effectively.
It needs to be translated into concrete actions and the effects monitored. To achieve this, standards provide guidelines and a methodology. This is the case of the voluntary ISO 26000 standard.
Implementing a CSR approach is a good thing. But if it contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through concrete actions, all the better!
How to assess the level of integration of ISO 26000 guidelines? Nothing could be easier with Diag RSE online.
Choosing a meaningful career and developing skills in social responsibility: in the face of today’s challenges, training in sustainable development and CSR is urgently needed.
To implement a responsible and sustainable strategy, it is essential to train a project manager in CSR issues.
Quality of life at work and employee well-being are also at the heart of corporate social responsibility initiatives.
By purchasing goods and services from suppliers and service providers who are themselves responsible, the buyer brings CSR into the company.
Building an action plan to prevent discrimination and promote equality in the workplace, then promoting it: that’s what’s at stake in a corporate equality, diversity and probity initiative.
Here are two ways in which your company can contribute to this: by voluntarily obtaining the Professional Equality label, and by calculating the mandatory Equal Pay Index.
Preventing discrimination and respecting equal opportunities: are these two approaches part of your commitments? To your company’s credit, it promotes diversity.
Is the fight against corruption a core concern for your company? Between the application of the Sapin 2 law and ISO 37001 certification, a number of actions testify to your involvement.
An integral part of a CSR policy, a successful responsible purchasing or events policy is one that is structured and carefully managed. Find out how!
Responsible purchasing is an important part of a CSR approach. The benefits are many: for the planet, your company, the local area, stakeholders…
Sometimes this means taking the risk of accentuating our ecological impact. As part of a CSR approach, events can be redesigned to control the impacts they generate.