corporate social responsibility(CSR), although any organisation, including NGOs, charities, and government agenciesmay engage in social accounting. Social Accounting can also be used in conjunction with Community-Based Monitoring (CBM). For a Toolkit on Community-Based Monitoring methodology, see www.communitymonitoring.org(Available in English and Dari/Farsi). [ 2 ] Social accounting emphasises the notion of corporate accountability. D. Crowther defines social accounting in this sense as "an approach
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landscape in the region which so far has been characterized by emergence of recruiting firms. She reckons that the later are easy to start, operate and make quick returns; career coaching is more complex to start, requires long-term commitment, accountability and also rigorous credentialing, meaning not everyone can become a coach. Eileen is introducing the "concept" of executive career coaching, providing a broad menu of unique services including coaching for excellence, executive résumé writing
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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AT MICROSOFT Microsoft Corporation, globally renowned for being the world’s largest software company, is an American public multinational corporation and an industry leader in Software and Information Technology services. It has diversified in recent years into the consumer electronics, computer hardware and interactive entertainment markets and is presently valued at $86 billion. Since its inception, Microsoft has always strongly supported efforts to promote further
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Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business 1 Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business 2 Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 3 Defining Ethics and Social Responsibility ....................................................................... 3 Do Countries with Lower Ethical Views Attract
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Bangladesh – German Development Cooperation PROGRESS House 10C, Road 90, Gulshan 2, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh Tel: +880 2 9887567, Fax: +880 2 8813769 E-mail: progress@gtz.de,[->0] Websites: www.gtz.de[->1], www.gtz-progress.org[->2] Working Paper No – 6 A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE BANGLADESH LABOR LAW 2006 AND 7 GENERAL CODES OF CONDUCT By Ameena Chowdhury Hanna Denecke
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digital lives will not abuse the power? When political power successfully leverages commercial and technological power, a serious accountability crisis will occur and more importantly, the crisis will have a spillover effect in different jurisdictions. In order to solve the crisis, we propose that Internet-related companies, governments supporting democracy, and NGOs should be aware of their positive roles in the digitally networked environments. These stakeholders’ efforts to shape a transparent
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors, including governments, consumers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe, relying on both foreign affiliates and arm’s-length suppliers arrayed along global supply chains, many of which encompass developing
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management control systems in NGOs Research executive summary series Volume 6 | Issue 6 Key findings: • Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are being confronted with the competitive nature of acquiring funds and need to demonstrate that they have particular competencies to funders, while at the same time continuing to adhere to their traditional welfare or development values. • The evidence shows that developing formal management controls can help NGOs to develop networks with government
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BUSINESS SCHOOL AMITY UNIVERSITY MARKET RESEARCH AND REPORT PREPARATION PROJECT- STARTING OF AN NGO SUBMITTED TO:- Ms. SONIA SINGH SUBMITTED BY:- RITU SHEKHAWAT ROLL NO.-108K03 A0101908415 RICHA CHAUDHARY ROLL NO.-108K23 A0101908045 STARTING an N.G.O. Even before you actually set up an NGO, you may simply not know where to start. A number of queries received at the NGO Cafe ask this question - where do I start? How do I know what to do? I am inspired, I want to do something
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A Three-fold Theory of Social Change and Implications for Practice, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation By Doug Reeler, of the Community Development Resource Association, 2007 “I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity. But I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the
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