CSR Academy Publications

CSR Competency Framework 

 The CSR Competency Framework aims to help you and your company integrate CSR in the organisation. It is a flexible tool that can be used:

• as part of an organisation's performance review process
• incorporated into an organisation's existing competency models
• as a self development tool for targeted managers, or
• incorporated into an organisation's handbook as part of a staff induction programme.

CSR Competency Framework (62 kb)

How to use the CSR Competency Framework

A resource pack for using the Competency Framework featuring

• Integrating CSR into recruitment
• Integrating CSR into appraisal
• Integrating CSR into succession planning

The resource pack includes the following useful templates

• Template for scoping the framework against current work
• Template for implementing a new CSR integration programme
• Template for assessing impact

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Making CSR Happen

A key conclusion from all the case studies is that both CSR and HR activities can make a major contribution to creating long term success in organisations and this reinforces the conclusions of other research that CIPD has undertaken in most recent years. In an increasingly knowledge based economy, employees are key stakeholders and many of the CSR activities reported are aimed at sustaining and improving the employment relationship.

Making CSR Happen (272 kb)

Changing Manager Mindsets

This report was written by the DTI's Corporate Responsibility Group in April 2003. It focuses on the professional skills needed to implement Corporate Social Responsibility effectively in the workplace and provided the foundation for the establishment of the CSR Academy.

Changing Manager Mindsets (297 kb)