CSR performance - A major factor for selecting a new employer
A company’s CSR performance is a major factor when selecting a new employer, according to a survey of graduating MBAs in the US, and they are even willing to sacrifice a portion of their salary to work for a firm that shares their outlook.
The survey of 759 graduating MBAs from 11 top business schools across the US was undertaken by David Montgomery of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Catherine Ramus of the University of California Santa Barbara, and found that the intellectual challenge offered by a role was the number one factor in selecting a job, while money and location were tied for second place.
However, a reputation for “ethical conduct and caring policies” were also ranked highly by respondents, who weighted them as having 75 per cent of the importance within the intellectual challenge criteria. Meanwhile, other components of CSR policies, such as environmental performance and community relations, were also cited by respondents as having a significant effect on graduates’ job selection decisions.
Principles for Responsible Management Education - Workshop in Anaheim
Saturday August 9, 2008, Anaheim Convention, USA
Presenters & Facilitators:
Manuel Escudero (UN Global Compact)
Matthew Gitsham (Ashridge)
Joshua Margolis (Harvard Business School)
Daina Mazutis (Ivey School of Business)
Alan Murray (University of Sheffield),
Hans van Oosterhout (RSM, Erasmus University)
Greg Unruh (Thunderbird)
Carolyn Woo (Notre Dame)
Organizers: Andreas Rasche (Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg), Sandra Waddock (Boston College), Patricia H. Werhane (DePaul University Chicago, University of Virginia)
Supported by the United Nations Global Compact, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) provide a framework for academic institutions to advance corporate responsibility through the incorporation of universal values into curricula and research. The PRME have been developed by an international task force consisting of 60 deans, university presidents and official representatives of leading business schools. Officially launched at the 2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit in Geneva, the PRME are now in the implementation phase.
This All-Academy Workshop will bring together a variety of people from different institutions who have adopted or are considering adopting the PRME, and from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. The objectives of the workshop are twofold.
Identify and share the questions that have emerged in the early phases of adopting and beginning to implement the PRME, as well as those answers concerning PRME implementation we already have.Early adopters will be invited to present their experiences and best practices; sharing these experience with others who have just adopted or are considering adopting PRME, facilitating a sharing of experiences and best practices regarding responsible management education.
Considering that every answer is only as good as the questions we ask, the PDW also wants participants to discuss what questions are meaningful when implementing the PRME and which of these questions have not been asked yet.
No prior registration required. For more information, please contact Dr. Andreas Rasche (Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg).
The PhD Sustainability Academy seeks to promote high-impact scholarship in sustainability, with a focus on multidisciplinary thinking and practice. The doctoral academy features three distinguished guest academics -
Dirk Matten - Schulich School of Business, York University
Andy Hoffman - Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
Christian Seelos - IESE, University of Navarra.
The four day event will bring together 15-20 doctoral scholars from leading Canadian and global doctoral programs. The goal is to offer an experientially rich environment to help nurture and advance participants academic thinking and teaching capabilities, and to encourage a broad-based, future-looking dialogue focused on fostering new knowledge and practices across different domains of sustainability.
All interested doctoral scholars working on sustainability are encouraged to submit a 2-5 page extended abstract of original, previously unpublished work to the 2008 PhD Sustainability Academy convenors, Oana Branzei obranzei@ivey.uwo.ca and Marlene J. Le Ber mleber@ivey.uwo.ca by July 15, 2008.
Call for Applications - oikos PhD Fellowship Position
The oikos PhD Fellowship Programme aims to advance entrepreneurial driven research in the areas of sustainable management and economics. To target this objective, oikos is inviting applications from qualified candidates for an oikos PhD Fellowship, starting in February 2009. oikos PhD Fellows receive a 3 years grant to conduct their research in the field of Sustainability Management and Economics at the University of St. Gallen, a leading European management school.The annual stipend will be CHF 36,000 (USD 35,000). Additional travel funds are available.
oikos Fellows will have the opportunity to conduct their research, finalize their doctoral thesis and contribute to concrete sustainability projects related to oikos activities.
The Copenhagen Business School Center for Corporate Social Responsibility is organising a PhD seminar with the topic "From Corporate Social Responsibility to Strategic Social Innovation?" from 30 September – 4 October 2008.
Aim of the course: In the world of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) we are seeing a move from what might be termed operational CSR towards a more strategic vision of CSR in which Social Innovation plays a key role. It is the intention of this PhD workshop to bring together doctoral students from different disciplinary backgrounds to help understand each others’ research approaches and to explore commonalities as well as differences in their work.
The four day workshop will use topical lectures as well as feed-back on individual thesis projects in small groups. Furthermore, there will be sessions on research methodology and publication strategy.
Course coordinator: Kai Hockerts, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Lecturers:
Andrew Kakabadse, Professor of International Management Development, Cranfield University, School of Management
Nada Kakabadse, Professor in Management and Business Research at the University of Northampton, Business School
Steen Vallentin, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Mette Morsing, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Course enrolment: Deadline for enrolment is 30 August 2008. Interested PhD students are requested to fill in a registration form which - along with further information about the seminar - can be requested from the course organizer Bente S. Ramovic (bsr.ikl@cbs.dk). For content related questions please contact Kai Hockerts (kho.ikl@cbs.dk) or Jonas Eder-Hansen (jeh.ikl@cbs.dk).
Who are we reaching? The real and intended audiences for business school research.
If you open a newspaper or magazine, it would not be uncommon to read about the latest research in the top journals of the field of medicine: the New England Journal of Medicine or the Lancet. But the odds of reading a similar story about the latest research from the top management journals are extremely low. The fact is that the major business practice journals have thus far largely ignored the research of the academy. A workshop organised by Professor Andrew Hoffman, University of Michigan, and Professor Monica Worline, Emory University aims to explain why this is so and to explore how this situation can be changed
Date, Time and Location: Sunday, August 10th at Anaheim Convention Center.
Panelists are among others: Academic journal editors, newspaper business editors and communication professionals.
This workshop will set the stage for exploring why the mainstream news sources and practitioner journals of business do not report on the research that emerges from the top academic journals of business research. By bringing together editors of academic journals and practitioner news sources, this workshop will uncover some of the underlying obstacles that block academic research from crossing into the major outlets of practice.
Directly addressing the question of translation between academic and practitioner oriented sources, the second step in the workshop will include the perspectives of business school and public relations communications professionals. These professionals, whose job it is to bridge the worlds of academia and practice, will help the audience uncover a more detailed understanding of the form and magnitude of the obstacles to making this translation happen.
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