Gazing round the Buick showroom with my psychiatrist friend to choose the final finishing on his new land cruiser, I realized that not every business was doing badly in the recession. Psychiatrists who treat angst ridden CEO’s in the central business district of Beijing are doing a roaring trade. One area on which China CEO’s are currently schizophrenic is in their approach to CSR. Multinational companies operating in China have taken two approaches; 1) Sack the CSR manager; or 2) sack just about everyone else and invest in CSR. (more…)
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On January 18, 2010, In Corporate Social Responsibility, By Charitarian
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There are not many meetings where corporate competitors get together to discuss how to improve their business operations in China. Beijing Ethics Network (BEN) is one such forum. On 25 June at 2pm about twenty CEO’s, Ethics Officers, Risk and Compliance managers and other interested parties met at Covington and Burling’s office to discuss how to improve the ethical operation of our companies in Beijing. Beijing Ethics Network (BEN) is a group of Managers and Government officials involved in the ethical operation of their companies/departments in China. BEN members meet on a monthly basis at a group member’s office to discuss topics such as gifts and bribes, ethical media relations, multinational workforce management and incident resolution. The vision statement is “A group of ethics practitioners from MNC’s sharing, listening and helping each other improve the ethical operation of their companies in China”. (more…)
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