The future International Standard ISO 26000, Guidance on social responsibility, will provide harmonized, globally relevant guidance for private and public sector organizations of all types based on international consensus among expert representatives of the main stakeholder groups and so encourage the implementation of best practice in social responsibility worldwide.

This article  first appeared in the September-October 2009 edition of ISO Management Systems magazine and is reproduced with the kind permission of ISO Central Secretariat www.iso.org.

This presentation is designed to show how the Baldrige framework and similar international management models promote an organization’s ability to be socially responsible through an integrated systems perspective, according to Kay Kendall, Principal, BaldrigeCoach.

Kendall, who recently presented at the WFA Excellence at Work Conference, said elements of social responsibility such as high ethical conduct, protection of the environment’s resources, and good community citizenship will be explored.

See more on her presentation via this Powerpoint

The future ISO 26000 standard giving guidance on social responsibility has just passed another important development stage with confirmation that support by ISO’s national members and by participating liaison organizations is strong enough for it to be progressed to a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS). This is the final stage in the development of an ISO standard before it is published as a fully fledged ISO International Standard.  To read more, click here.

People can and will bring more of themselves to work when they’re making the world a better place, according to Daniel Aronson, a business strategist for IBM’s Global Business Services.

Aronson, who spoke at a recent Social Responsibility Executive Roundtable, said employees will make the world better, faster, more profitably when they can prove and improve their efforts.

Aronson also said that consumers and customers care about social responsibility – and believe business should.

See more on his presentation via this Powerpoint.

Three key outcomes-including measuring results-were identified as part of a Social Responsibility (SR) Think Tank hosted by ASQ (American Society for Quality) November 16-17.

National thought leaders were invited to the event as part of ASQ’s ongoing SRO (Social Responsibility Organization) movement facilitated by Clem Bezold, a world-renown futurist, and chair and founder of the Institute of Alternative Futures.

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