ASQ Social Responsibility Think Tank Executive Summary
- Posted April 2nd, 2010 by Sarah
Local and worldwide accountability and transparency on social, financial, and environmental issues are bringing about an increased interest in social responsibility (SR). An emerging international standard—ISO 26000—provides guidance to organizations that seek assistance in integrating SR into their practices. The importance of SR and the many wide-ranging and critical issues currently facing society prompted ASQ to embark on a major initiative to align quality methodologies to socially responsible practices and systems.
The ASQ SR Think Tank was designed to engage thought leaders and organizations in a strategic dialogue about SR and the role of quality. The desire was to facilitate an international dialogue and potential collaborations on the lasting contribution quality can make to the SR movement and provide direction and scope to the ASQ SR agenda.
Click here to read more of the ASQ SR Think Tank Executive Summary.
- Posted April 2nd, 2010 by Sarah
- Categories: SRO · 2 comments »
April 3rd, 2010 at 10:11 am
Any Company really engages in the improvement of its quality of products or services really doing a social responsibility work. Because if you look at the a very basic definition of quality like “Value for money” or “Fitness For use” , what those definitions tells us indirectly. It is to provide a product or service to the consumer which satisfy the needs and wants of the consumer. This means if an organization continuously doing such type of work that is a contribution to the society in many ways. For example consumers are getting a product or service that they can value , re-work or defects can be eliminated by saving money, raw materials man hours, nation will become a rich nation because of saving resources, planet will become a good and safe place to live. Therefore if an organization is genuine in its efforts to provide an quality product such organizations are doing a direct contribution to the social responsibilty work. This is my simple understanding of this concept as any issue under the sun is a quality issue if we carefully analysed it.
April 4th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Social Responsibility (SR) and Quality are the left and right hand if a business enterprise in terms of providing products and/or services to clients and customers. They should go together. One without the other will make things imbalance and lacking of what could truly fulfill and satisfy the customers. Both are attributes of a well run and managed enterprise..