Social Dialogue Corporate Social Responsibility Societal Development

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Social Dialogue Corporate Social
Responsibility Societal Development

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• How to meet the challenges of globalisation

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Market rules vs. social solidarity

• Globalisation is not sustainable
• markets erode traditional standards quickly
• they rise new ones much slower
• gaps are created
• the results might be terrible
• Reconciling market rationality with human
  community
• market forces and
• shared human values and principles and
  institutional forms

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Corporate Social Responsibility

• EU definition
• A concept whereby companies integrate social
  and environmental concerns in their business
  operations and in their interaction with their
  stakeholders on a voluntary basis

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CSR internal dimension

• Human resource management
• Health and safety at work
• Adaptation to change
• Management of environmental impacts and natural
  resources

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CSR external dimension

• Local communities
• Business partners, suppliers and consumers
• Human rights
• Global environmental concerns

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Social dialogue at factory level

• Efficiency
• Effectiveness
• Common interest
• Development together

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Role of Government

• the paradox
• the necessity
• the contribution to societal development