Corporate social responsibility and sustainability

New and updated

• City of London to boost allure for firms with large-scale green plan

  Date:

  6 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Workers and companies in the City of London are to benefit from plans to improve office space flexibility, air quality and the natural environment.

• Third of HR professionals dealing with managers' unethical behaviour

  Date:

  6 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Around a third of HR practitioners feel that managers in their organisation often engage in behaviours they consider to be unethical, according to a new CIPD survey.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2018: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Date:

  12 July 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine the provision of some of the wide range of benefits and allowances offered by respondents to XpertHR's research, including childcare benefits, long-service awards, charity days, location allowances, and standby and call-out payments.

• Policy on supporting employees doing volunteer work

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Skills-based volunteering can boost employee engagement

  Date:

  24 February 2018

  Type:

  News

  With younger employees increasingly believing business should be a force for good, Bruce McCombie from Pilotlight looks at how skills-based volunteering could help drive engagement.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2017: Long-service, childcare and travel benefits

  Date:

  13 July 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Here, we look at the findings from the XpertHR survey of benefits and allowances, presenting data on the availability of a number of benefits including long-service awards, childcare and travel benefits, location payments, volunteer days and various allowances.

• The future of HR: Embrace technology, but stay human

  Date:

  11 May 2017

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Balancing HR technology with a commitment to doing good for society is critical to the future of HR. Michael Carty reports from last month's Westminster Employment Forum conference.

• Corporate social responsibility (CSR)

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Case study: Reward and corporate responsibility at Aviva

  Date:

  4 September 2009

  Type:

  Case studies

  Insurance group Aviva has a strong commitment to corporate responsibility (CR), and uses a range of reward initiatives to encourage and enable employees to play their part in putting it into practice.

• Environmental policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model environmental policy.