The Corporate Responsibility Index

Developed in consultation with businesses, the CR Index challenges and supports large organisations to integrate responsible business practices.

Our approach

It takes the form of an online survey and companies follow a self-assessment process intended to help them identify both the strengths in their management and performance and gaps, where future progress can be made. Business in the Community believes that self-assessment is the starting point for action and improvement, but it independently validates submissions to ensure reliability and consistency...More

 The CR Index supports companies to:

• Identify gaps for improvement and reinforces good practice
• Track progress over time and drive continuous improvement
• Benchmark performance against peers and leading practice
• Engage board members and raise awareness of CR issues internally...More

Participation

Companies can choose to use the tool on either a public or private basis.

• Public participants are included in the annual CR Index ranking and demonstrate a commitment to transparently improving their social and environmental performance
• Private participation is designed for companies not ready to disclose their performance and focuses on providing guidance and feedback help organisations better integrate and improve their CR performance...More