Social performance

Deep innovation is a key part of green product design thinking. It offers the biggest gains in environmental, technical, economic and social performance. 

Emotional symptoms and changes in social functioning include blunted affect, mood disturbances such as irritability, fearfulness, and suspicion, negative symptoms such as marked apathy, paucity of speech, or incongruity of emotional responses resulting in social withdrawal and lowering of social performance. 

The difficulty in dealing with people whose value system and communication style may be markedly different is a major contributor to culture shock. The difficulties may arise in conceptions of honesty and bribery or, more simply, different meanings for friendship and social performance. This component of culture shock, the core of the phenomenon, will be discussed in more detail using two conceptual schemes. 

Expanding the traditional business-reporting framework to take into account environmental and social performance in addition to financial performance. 

Triple bottom line (TBL) refers to expanding the traditional business-reporting framework to take into account environmental and social performance in addition to financial performance. The TBL concept postulates that a company s responsibility is to stakeholders rather than shareholders. In this case, stakeholders refers to anyone who is influenced, either directly or indirectly, by the actions of the firm. 

In this survey CEOs saw stakeholder pressures as a key driver of social performance and cited employees, government, customers, communities and NGO s as being most the most important stakeholders in shaping their action. 

Because of stock price, for starters. The link between shareholder value and environmental and social performance is a phenomenon that has spawned a large body of research, literature, and investment activity in recent years. Insurers claim that in the next decade, the annual cost of global warming will rise to 150 billion a year (Webber, 2002). The stakes are increasing as multinationals in the finance community band together to buttress their arguments for sustainability... 

In addition to the factors discussed above, there is also a pull from the financial markets to conduct sustainability audits. The call to organizations to more fully provide information on their environmental and social performance is due to developing evidence that shows good performance in the environmental and social arenas often... 

Environmental Performance Economic Performance Social Performance... 

Apart from stand-alone sustainability reports, many chemical companies make some information on their environmental, health and safety and social performance publicly available through other mechanisms. These mechanisms can include a combination of the following ... 

It will take a considerable effort to recover. But that recovery is in the sights of many employees, and central to that is a firmly held commitment to sustainable development. Only by continuing to focus on achieving a strong economic, environmental, and social performance can the expectations of shareholders, customers, and society at large be met, licences to operate retained, and the damage to the Group s reputation repaired. 

Specific SD performance goals have also been set for the Chemicals Business that focus on continuous performance over a five-year period between 2002 and 2007. The goals center on key aspects of environmental and social performance and are linked to major programmes of activity across the Shell chemicals companies. The goals are ... 

Sustainability is important in the context of industry sectors, products, process technologies, and individual process plants. In assessing performance achievement in sustainability, there is a need for suitable sustainability indicators to measure progress in environmental, economic, and social performance. 

The Social Performance Indicators identify key performance aspects surrounding labor practices, human rights, society, and product responsibility. 

In general, the quality of social/ethical reporting falls below that of environmental reporting. In addition, the lack of standards creates difficulties with comparability. With limited agreement over the nature of social indicators or how to measure social performance there is a pressing case for greater convergence of the standard setters in this area. 

The ISEA has identified a number of categories for which social performance indicators are needed ... 

Relevant terms for examining an organization s role beyond its traditional walls include corporate social responsibility (GSR) and corporate social performance (CSP), concepts currently used in part to assess the Fortune 500 most-admired companies. Both terms expand an organization s responsibilities beyond its traditional economic shareholders to multiple stakeholders, including the community (Greening Turban, 2000 Hutchins Sutherland, 2008 Rowley Berman, 2000 Valiente, Ayerbe, Figueras, 2012). Carroll (1979) developed one of the earlier versions of a comprehensive view of corporate social performance and has reiterated his opinion (Carroll, 2000) that social performance review should include a comprehensive assessment of actions related to most social issues and stakeholders. 

Corporate social performance and corporate social responsibility focus on a direct business-related role vis-a-vis the community, with an emphasis on the strategic and bottom-line implications of socially responsible corporate practices (Heal, 2008 Werther Chandler, 2011). Both constructs stem from the recognition that the economic actions of business entities have noneconomic consequences and that business organizations have an impact on other societal institutions beyond their economic sphere. 

Greening, D. W., Turban, D. B. (2000). Corporate social performance as a competitive advantage in attracting a quality workforce. Business Society, 39, 254-280. doi l 0.1177/000765030003900302... 

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