Changing Business from the Inside Out

12Diversity, governance, and ethics

This chapter delivers the essential concepts needed to understand and communicate the diversity, governance, and ethics aspects of your corporate responsibility program.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics (Jane Addams).

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together (Malcolm Forbes).

So far this book has covered the “bread and butter” issues at the center of the corporate responsibility profession. But there are equally important issues that are included in the definition of a responsible company. If you study the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines you will see a number of questions aimed at the diversity of the company’s workforce, the governance structure (as well as ...