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Turning philanthropy into a spectator sport
May 31, 2012 in Leadership and Management, Corporate Governance, PROFESSIONAL, APPLIED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, Policy Making, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public sector | Tags: Risk, corporate strategy, Governance, Business Books, Gower Publishing, corporate social responsibility, Third Sector, Charity, partnerships | by Gower Publishing | Leave a comment

… there is a strong community feeling and the passions of the givers are genuine. “We can achieve more by giving together than we can by giving alone“, is tangible.
Read Tom’s article in The Guardian Professional. Former MP Tom Levitt is author of Gower’s Partners for Good
Why charities are best equipped to take a longer view of service delivery
February 7, 2012 in Business Performance, Corporate Governance, Leadership and Management, Policy Making | Tags: Charity, corporate social responsibility, public policy and governance, public sector management, Third Sector, Third Sector Management, voluntary sector | by Gower Publishing | Leave a comment
Respecting the slower nature of charities is part of the process of understanding them, says consultant Tom Levitt. His article, in Guardian Professional, argues that the slower, evolutionary momentum of the voluntary sector distinguishes it from the fast-paced, “quick buck” attitude of the private sector.
Tom is the author of Partners for Good: Business, Government and the Third Sector - available July 2012
Taking Responsibility through Your Projects
December 20, 2011 in Business Performance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation and Transformation, Project & Programme Mgmt | Tags: corporate social responsibility, Green projects, Project governance, Project Management, project sustainability | by jonathansnorman | Leave a comment
In this month’s issue of PM World Today, A.J.Gilbert Silvius and Ron Schipper offer a perspective on project management that, whilst not entirely new, is still paradoxically something of a rarity: the role of projects and project managers in business sustainability. I say, paradoxically because given the function of projects to deliver business change, you’d have thought they would be the standard bearers of sustainable practice. Let’s hope that Gilbert and Ron’s work will strike a chord and provide a catalyst to enable projects to assume that role. Gilbert Silvius and Ron Schipper are authors of the forthcoming Gower book, Sustainability in Project Management.
Partners for Good – What Future of Partnerships between Charities and Business?
August 11, 2011 in Business Performance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and Management | Tags: Business Contribution to Society, Business/Charitable Partnerships, corporate social responsibility, Ethics, Gower Publishing, Partners for Good, The Big Society, Tom Levitt, Working with the Third Sector | by jonathansnorman | Leave a comment
Tom Levitt’s piece ‘Shall We Dance’ on the Charities Direct website is an excellent guide for both partners in these arrangements (the charities and the businesses) and provides you with the basis to reflect on whether to get together, why and with whom. Read it and take the opportunity to join the dance – it may well be that this kind of partnership is just what your organization needs in these changing times. Tom Levitt is author of the forthcoming Gower book - Partners for Good: Business, Government and the Third Sector.
What’s your plan for the planet?
January 28, 2011 in Business Performance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and Management, PROFESSIONAL, Strategy | Tags: Biodiversity, Climate change, Conflict, corporate social responsibility, Energy poverty, Equitable business, Ethical business, Global health, green economics, Plan for the planet, Population growth, Poverty, Resource depletion, Saving the planet, Sustainability, Sustainable living, Universal education, Water supply | by jonathansnorman | Leave a comment
I always think that a good book is one that provides you with the incentive and the opportunity to act. Ian Chambers and John Humble’s Developing a Plan for the Planet does just that, not least because the accompanying website provides you with instructions and the means to create your own business plan for the planet which you can upload and share with others.
Four leadership approaches to engagement
January 27, 2011 in Brand and Marketing, Innovation and Transformation, Internal Communication, Leadership and Management, PROFESSIONAL, Strategy | Tags: Accountability, Business Transformation, change, Co-creation, corporate social responsibility, Employee engagement, Employees as advocates, Employer brand, Human Resources, internal communication, Leadership, motivation, Programme management, stakeholder engagement, The Psychological Contract | by jonathansnorman | Leave a comment
The reason why John Smythe is one of the most successful commentators on the whole subject of employee engagement is surely down to his ability to express ideas in ways which seem intuitive and yet, often, profound. In this article he explains his four leadership approaches to engaging employees in strategy and change. John Smythe is a co-founder of Engage for Change and author of The CEO – Chief Engagement Officer: Turning Hierarchy Upside Down to Drive Performance.
Wealth, Welfare and the Global Free Market
December 1, 2010 in APPLIED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, Corporate Social Responsibility, International Economy, Policy Making | Tags: business and environment, corporate social responsibility, International Political Economy, International Trade | by Gower Publishing | Leave a comment
In free, competitive markets no one should be able to influence prices by their will. But of course many forms of fixing prices exists.
In Chapter 4 – The Market Guidance of the Economy Professor Ozer Ertuna explains how markets guide the economy in theory and practice by presenting the assumptions and the models of the theory.
Professor Ertuna is the author of Wealth, Welfare and the Global Free Market
Award for corporate social responsibility
October 4, 2010 in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Resources, Internal Communication, Internet and Virtual Worlds | Tags: change management, corporate social responsibility, Diversity, Employee engagement, inclusivity, internal communication, Public sector communication, Strategic communication | by jonathansnorman | Leave a comment
The IVCA Clarion Awards are the world’s only awards promoting CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate. And I am delighted that Mark Wright’s Gower Handbook of Internal Communication has been given an award, under the printed material category, for its contribution to public sector communication. It’s very gratifying to see the value of this book recognised, not least because IVCA still champion books as a form of communication, alongside the more glamorous forms of media that they recognise; everything from videos and advertising to live events and viral marketing.
Corporate Governance – Responsibilities of the Board
September 1, 2010 in APPLIED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, Corporate Social Responsibility | Tags: board of directors, Corporate Governance, corporate social responsibility, CSR, gower applied research | by Gower Publishing | Leave a comment
The board should represent the interest of the company and look after the shareholder interests of corporate performance, generated profit and realized dividend. The board becomes a platform for balancing shareholders and stakeholders expectations, for discussing corporate strategy, for resolving shareholder conflicts and fights, for electing executives and formulating compensation policy. Moreover, worldwide discussions provide evidence for the common understanding that board members should be highly skilled experienced professionals with high morale and that they are responsible and accountable, since the performance and even existence of the company lies in the board members’ hands, more precisely in the work and advice they deliver and monitoring they exert. This chapter from A Handbook of Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility analyzes the key role and importance of the board in the corporate governance structure depicted in national systems. It discusses the duties and responsibilities of the board referring to two existing models of control.
