Employee Engagement

A “Co-operative” Way of Doing Business: Who are the Leaders?

By Farida Helmy | Published: April 25, 2013

“Co-operatives are a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in opening remarks for the United Nations 2012 International Year of Co-operatives.

cooperation_pic

Owned by their workforces and their customers, co-ops have the perfect opportunity to dictate business decisions that drive social and environmental change. Unburdened by quarterly results, they have the luxury of growing slowly, focused more on long-term thinking.

Also posted in Business and Sustainability, Capitalism 2.0, CSR, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture | Tagged 2012 abacus data, Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade, co-operatives, Corporate Knights, Desjardins Group, Groupe BPCE, Most Sustainable Co-operatives, The Co-operators Group | Leave a comment

Intrapreneurs are Passionate Change Agents: How to Nurture them from Within

By Jo Confino | Published: April 18, 2013

How can leaders act to ensure the passion and compassion of social intrapreneurs are allowed to blossom in big business?

Cultivate a cafe culture: create time and space to talk about what is happening in the wider world and how your business can be a force for good in it. Photograph: Ludovic Maisant/Hemis/Corbis

The combination of passion and compassion creates a powerful force for positive change. There are always plenty of both on offer at the annual get-together of the hundreds of social entrepreneurs who attend the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, which ended last week.

Also posted in Behaviour Change, Business and Sustainability, Capitalism 2.0, Culture Change, Leadership, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture | Tagged csr, intrapreneur. social intrapreneurs, ionnovation, jo confino, skoll | Leave a comment

Looking to Change Employee Behaviour: Let Organizational Culture Lead the Way

By Gareth Kane | Published: February 21, 2013

I was running an employee engagement workshop in one of the U.K.’s largest manufacturers when a plant operative, still in his dirty overalls, turned to me, shook his head, and said “They’ve put these stickers on the machines telling us to switch them off, but there’s nothing in the standard operating procedures. It is drummed into us from day one to follow those procedures so if it ain’t in there, it ain’t happening.”

This guy had precisely nailed the problem with the vast majority of attempts to ‘green’ employee behavior. At best they blithely ignore the prevalent culture in the organization and, at worst, try to change it wholesale.

Also posted in Behaviour Change, Culture Change | Tagged BAE, corporate culture, corporate sustainability, Employee Engagement, gareth Kane, Green Jujitsu, organizational culture, sustainability | Leave a comment

Sustainability and innovation is everyone’s job

By Jesper Bank | Published: January 19, 2013

The good news: There is a business case for sustainability

Several recent studies from leading scholars from Harvard and the London School of Economics confirm that companies with an operating model that integrates sustainability outperform their “old model” peers in the long run. Not just in terms of higher stock market returns, but also with lower debt costs and fewer capital constraints – this means improved risk management, less volatility and improved profitability [1].

The financial advantages of sustainability are not limited to lower debt costs and easier access to borrowed money. Perhaps more importantly it lowers the interest rate that professionally driven companies use to calculate the Internal Rate of Return for business ventures and projects. In essence it affects whether business ventures are accepted or rejected. An improved Internal Rate of Return means projects that would otherwise have been rejected will now be allowed to live and prosper, enabling companies to develop a higher ROI.

Also posted in Behaviour Change, Business and Sustainability, Culture Change, Innovation | Tagged csr, innovation, Jesper Bank, sustainability, Waabii | Leave a comment

13 Conferences for 2013 – Plus 17 More!

By Chris Jarvis | Published: January 4, 2013

What conferences should I attend this year? Below is our top 13 for 2013 – plus 17 more! These conferences are focused on CSR, Sustainability, Corporate Volunteering and/or Philanthropy. Note: Even with 30 conferences listed, there are likely to be some that we missed. Please help us make our list more accurate. You can comment at the end of this article or contact us directly at contact@realizedworth.com.

13 Conferences for 2013

1. 12th Annual Best Practices Summit on Employee Engagement in Corporate Citizenship: ‘Make It Matter’
Charities@Work
WHERE: Grand Hyatt New York, Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY
WHEN: April 3-4, 2012
HOW MUCH: $425 (Note – this conference is ‘by invite only’ but you can request an invite from us – Realized Worth)

Also posted in CSR, Sustainability Education Events | Tagged 2013, conferences, Corporate Social Responsibility, corporate volunteering, csr, employee volunteering, Realized Worth, tsss | 2 Comments

Search

Employee Engagement

A “Co-operative” Way of Doing Business: Who are the Leaders?

Looking to Change Employee Behaviour: Let Organizational Culture Lead the Way

Sustainability and innovation is everyone’s job

TSSS Event: How a Culture of Innovation Drives Sustainability at BASF (FREE LIVESTREAM)

Upcoming Events

Strategic Partners

We're on Twitter

Join the Conversation