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7.Are individuals encouraged to increase competency and enhance their skill set to better serve
socially responsible organization? An organization’s people are one of its greatest assets. Each staff member has potential to take ordinary and make it extraordinary. From front line to top management, organization’s people must be encouraged to participate directly in strategic thinking and progressing agenda. Staff should be encouraged and rewarded for pursuing professional development opportunities that make them more valuable and versatile.
8.What considerations were incorporated into organization’s facilities to stimulate creativity? The work environment contributes positively or negatively to productivity and creativity. The organization’s people spend majority of their waking hours in workplace. There is a tremendous opportunity to use this time to stimulate creative process and establish an environment that fosters harmonious interactions. From color schemes, to ergonomic furniture, or use of advanced technology, organization’s facilities should be given appropriate consideration.
9.How has technology been employed to bring organization closer to its customers, suppliers, and internal resources? The world wide web has reduced our farthest neighbor to “boy next door”. We have ability to provide our customers, suppliers and internal concerns with access to information and a convenient method of communication that 10 years ago would not have been imagined. Customers and suppliers are literally a click away. By using technology wisely, we can provide them with information they need to help us serve them better or vice versa.
Global Impact
10.Has organization studied and demonstrated that it understands how it contributes to global marketplace? Every organization contributes to global marketplace in some way. There is a chain of influence that needs to be understood to fully embrace importance of incorporating social responsibility initiatives into an organization’s mission. You can begin by tracing your product or service as it moves through its life cycle. As you begin to recognize how even a small change can accumulate and make a global difference, you will be inspired to take an intentional first step towards social responsibility. The Top 10 Questions for Socially Responsible Leaders have been excerpted from a FREE Report “40 Questions for Socially Responsible Leaders” available at http://www.WholisticBusiness.com. At Wholistic Business, we believe that business literally makes world go around. It will be business owners and managers that will ultimately change world for better. By incorporating a new set of values and priorities into what has proven to be a successful formula on many levels, we believe that business will be platform for a new agenda - Social Responsibility Agenda.
Regardless of size of your business, you make a contribution to global marketplace that impacts humanity with a rippling effect. As an organization’s leader, you choose whether that ripple will be felt positively or negatively. Even a small movement or change in a socially responsible direction can have a dramatic effect. Every day produces a new opportunity for change!
Wholistic Business (http://www.WholisticBusiness.com), a division of MetaComm International, LLC, is committed to assisting organizations in developing socially responsible business practices with a keen eye on productivity and profitability. Gala Gorman, MetaComm’s CEO, holds a Master’s Degree in Human Development, is a certified public accountant, certified financial planner, published author, executive coach and business consultant with 25 years of experience.
