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Useful publications to help you integrate responsible business practice, sometimes referred to as corporate social responsibility (CSR), into the heart of your company. 

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  • Moving forward: further guidance for landowners, businesses and communities cover

    Moving forward: further guidance for landowners, businesses and communities

    The provision of Affordable Rural Housing is critical to maintaining the living rural communities on who we depend to look after our unique countryside. This updated guide provides ideas and recommendations for those who wish to be involved in the provision of rural affordable housing.

    Date:
    June 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

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  • 2009 Benchmarking Report - Transparency at the Heart of Diversity cover

    2009 Benchmarking Report - Transparency at the Heart of Diversity

    The 2009 Race for Opportunity (RfO) benchmarking report on racial diversity compiled with data from 79 organisations.

    Date:
    June 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

    download 2009 Benchmarking Report - Transparency at the Heart of Diversity
  • Leadership for change - aligning organisations for the future cover

    Leadership for change - aligning organisations for the future

    Leaders in businesses and governments are grappling with a huge change agenda at a time when public trust in them is low. Most are still trying to transform into organisations that can take full advantage of a globally interconnected world in which knowledge and innovation are changing our lives at warp speed.

    Date:
    June 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

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  • FT Responsible Business Supplement 10/06/09 - featuring CR Index results and Big Tick winners cover

    FT Responsible Business Supplement 10/06/09 - featuring CR Index results and Big Tick winners

    On 10 June the ‘Responsible Business’ supplement was published in the Financial Times. It announced the BITC CR Index rankings and the Awards for Excellence Big Ticks, using both as a source of evidence and analysis to identify the emerging responsible business issues.

    Date:
    June 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

    download FT Responsible Business Supplement 10/06/09 - featuring CR Index results and Big Tick winners
  • Measuring Progress: Meeting Challenges cover

    Measuring Progress: Meeting Challenges

    The Opportunity Now Benchmarking Survey is the UK’s most extensive survey of gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. It gives a snapshot of what progress employers have made on gender equality, diversity and inclusion and reveals its tangible business benefits.

    Date:
    May 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

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  • BITC Guidance note for Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting cover

    BITC Guidance note for Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting

    Corporate Responsibility (CR) can help develop trust, build business, boost morale, create opportunities and reduce risks. And it has never been more important for companies to be communicating with their stakeholders to demonstrate leadership, their values and vision, successes and failures in CR.

    Date:
    May 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

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  • Climate change: It’s never been more important briefing note cover

    Climate change: It’s never been more important briefing note

    The economy and climate change are the UK’s two greatest challenges for 2009. The UK economy is now officially in recession, and it is predicted it will stay so until at least early 2010. This will have wide-ranging effects on business including a reduction in output, job losses, and in severe circumstances, the closure of businesses.

    Date:
    May 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

    download Climate change: It’s never been more important briefing note
  • Skills Health Wellbeing cover

    Skills Health Wellbeing

    This Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting learning & development in companies as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme. Created by employers for employers, this unique resource draws on the collective experience and expertise of the Skills, Health and Wellbeing Steering Group.

    Date:
    May 2009
    Price:
    Free

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  • May Day Carbon UK report - a survey on the 2010 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) cover

    May Day Carbon UK report - a survey on the 2010 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)

    Business in the Community commissioned this research to find out how prepared the UK’s businesses really are for climate change, and for the impending regulations that the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation will bring in April 2010.

    Date:
    May 2009
    Price:
    £Free to download

    download May Day Carbon UK report - a survey on the 2010 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC)
  • Emotional Resilience & Productivity of the Working Age Population cover

    Emotional Resilience & Productivity of the Working Age Population

    A BITC UK-based study conducted by vielife and sponsored by Standard Life Healthcare.

    Date:
    May 2009
    Price:
    Free

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