The New Zealand engineering profession has a strong tradition of social responsibility, and many engineers have worked voluntarily on engineering projects in the Pacific Islands and in Southeast Asia. In keeping with this tradition, Engineers for...

Perhaps the most practical approach is to view ethics as a catalyst that causes managers to take socially responsible actions. The movement toward including ethics as a critical part of management education began in the 1970s, grew significantly in...

Social responsibility is an ethical or ideological theory that an entity whether it is a government, corporation, organization or individual has a responsibility to society. This responsibility can be "negative," in that it is a responsibility to...

Standard helps clarify a nebulous term SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (SR) has entered our modern-day lexicon and everyday practice, particularly in the corporate arena Organizations worldwide espouse their social and environmental awareness and advocacy efforts, but the brush is very broad in terms of a...

FACTS MONEY ... corporate social responsibility is not about what you give, it's about how you operate A social investor's view With the breakdown in investor confidence in financial reporting, companies are facing increasing pressure from shareholders, employees, suppliers, and other...

The conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan has killed more than 400,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million since 2003, according to the United Human Rights Council. The Sudanese government is accused of being involved in Janjaweed militia attacks on the non-Baggara civilian...

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons said Monday that the recording and broadcast industries should consistently ban three racial and sexist epithets from all so-called clean versions of rap songs and the airwaves.Currently such epithets are banned from most clean versions, but record companies sometimes "arbitrarily" decide...