Social responsibility
Sustainable business for organizations means not only providing products and services that satisfy the customer, and doing so without jeopardizing the environment, but also operating in a socially responsible manner that society increasingly demands. Pressure to do so comes from customers, consumers, governments, associations and the public at large.
The challenge therefore is how to put the principles into practice and how to implement SR effectively and efficiently.
The future ISO 26000 standard giving guidance on social responsibility has taken a significant step forward with ISO deciding on its structure and overall contents, as well as fixing a target release date of September 2008.
The ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility (WG SR) has laid the foundations of ISO 26000, which will give organizations of all types a harmonized, internationally agreed guidance for social responsibility in both the private and public sectors, drawing on best practice and consistent with relevant declarations and conventions by the United Nations and its constituents, notably the International Labour Office (ILO).
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