CSR and the sharp end of business

Community engagement has for too long been seen as the soft side of CSR. Now smart managers are finding a new use for community engagement - winning business.

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Social volunteering has not added a penny to our business but it turns hierarchies upside down

Thank goodness our CEO has not challenged the concept of social volunteering. If he did, how would I respond?

Homes for Phones: new drop boxes make donating mobiles easier than ever

Donation of mobiles - or empty printer cartridges - is now easier than ever, as homelessness charity Broadway launches a corporate drop box scheme for offices.

Responsible Business: Energy is an HR issue, because it affects the comfort of employees

In tough trading conditions, Chrissie Rucker's The White Company has turned in a tidy pre-tax profit of 1.2m on sales of 83.9m.

Time to put the HR in CSR

It is three years since HR magazine launched its Make a Difference campaign, urging HR directors to take a lead in corporate social responsibility. So has anything changed, asks Sian Harrington?

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Barclays boss Diamond defends City culture and asks for "blame game" to stop

Barclays Group's new chief executive Bob Diamond (pictured) yesterday defended the remuneration culture of the UK financial sector, telling the Treasury committee that "competitive pay for performance...

'We need employers to look first to people who are out of work and already in this country'

Writing exclusively for HR, Immigration Minister, Damian Green, discusses the government's immigration cap.

Join Location Location Location's Phil Spencer for dinner by entering the Phones for Homes photo competition

Homelessness charity Broadway has launched a photo competition to help promote its Phones for Homes campaign, for which HR is media partner.

Payroll giving figures showing drop in donations are misleading says Association of Payroll Giving

The Association of Payroll Giving has hit back at figures released this week that showed donations to charity had fallen by 50% since September 2008.

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Hutton proposes pay ratio cap for public sector execs

The salaries of senior executives in the public sector should remain within a given ratio of those of other staff members, according to the Fair Pay Review.

Charity launches volunteering platform for businesses

A web-based platform for managing the volunteering programmes of businesses and organisations has been launched.

Office for Budget Responsibility's employment forecast "very optimistic"', says CIPD

The Office for Budget Responsibility's reduction of its forecast of public sector job cuts in 2015-16 by 200,000 represents a "very optimistic" outlook, according to the Chartered Institute for...