Enterprise Forum [1] just released in November 2009, the results of his study "The State of Corporate Social Responsibility under the gaze of Business Executives Latin America, 2009. " This study covered 529 executives, located in 15 countries and 14 economic sectors. That is to say that it was of organizations, from SMEs to Multinational and both the industrial and commercial sector and services. It is also a study that covered both the development of different variables -7 social responsibility in total, as the installed capacity in organizations to carry out socially responsible management. The instruments in this study were developed based on the ISO-26000 in Working Draft version 4.2.
Among the results, include the following:
1. The employee relations appears as the more developed.
2. The corporate governance and transparency variables appear as the less developed variables.
3. 68% of the organizations covered has signed agreements to join the institutions that promote social responsibility.
4. 65% of these organizations has a formal charge address social responsibility in management.
5. 40% of them regularly publishes a sustainability report, 70% of which follows the GRI methodology and 58% do so by involving stakeholders in its drafting. See Figures No. 1 and 2.
Figure No. 2: RS
Performance Levels Chart 3: Performance of Variable
Performance Levels Chart 3: Performance of Variable Finally, it is noteworthy that, amid a generalized crisis year, not only identifies significant progress in region in terms of social responsibility, but the research confirms the interest and optimism among executives in the near future, in the sense that RS PATH is correct for organizations. It should be noted, however, that the study sample was formed by invitation and, therefore, its results can not be extrapolated or generalized without due care, which, in my view, not to be very useful to read trends.
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[1] Business Forum is a network, in which 18 organizations Latin American promoters of socially responsible approach to management.
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