Thought Leadership

Corporate and Social Responsibility

In today's corporate world the Executive charged with the single minded pursuit of profit must be supported by others who oversee several other vital considerations. The views of Governments, Shareholders and the Public must be considered together with the traditional care taken in communicating with Customers and Staff.

A company's "License to trade" may be restricted or withdrawn at any time by a public or Government offended by a company's business practices. A collapse in share value may be triggered by a similar reaction from shareholders and as the oil companies discovered a loss of pride in their employer or their own self respect by staff can severely impact otherwise profitable operations.

All of these issues are dealt with under the broad umbrella of CSR, Corporate and Social Responsibility. C&H and their associates have wide experience of recruiting CSR-savvy Executives in this area. We would draw your attention to the paper below which deals with these matters at greater length.

We also offer a review of these issues as they are addressed in that most challenging of management environments The "Regulated Company".

Finally we reproduce here an article by John Plender from The Financial Times published on the 20th January 2005 which expertly explores the challenges that in Board of Directors faces when evaluating its own effectiveness in such matters as Corporate Governance and CSR.