The Top 10 Companies leading the way in CSR

In this  blog, we are investigating the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility and looking at the power that modern organisations have to be responsible citizens that preserve the world around them and support their communities. From charitable giving through to C02 reduction schemes and employee volunteering, today's brands are influencing change with their CSR strategies. So which organisations are doing it particularly well? These recognisable brands have been flagged as leading the way in Corporate Social Responsibility best practices.

The leading companies are Google, Microsoft, Walt Disney and the Lego Group, according to research carried out by the Reputation Institution. In their CSR RepTrak 100 paper, which was released earlier this year, details of 170,000 ratings were provided, based on interviews with the public across countries that included the UK, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, the USA, Russia, Canada, Japan, Australia, India, China, South Korea and Australia. The research allowed the top 100 organisations to be ranked by performance, demonstrating which businesses and organisations the public find to be the most reputable.

Each organisation featured was assessed against three core components. The workplace element assesses the value and fairness of the employer's rewards for its employees along with equal opportunities and wellbeing initiatives. The second measure was citizenship, which measured how well each brand supported charitable causes and directly supported positive influences in society whilst taking responsibility for the environment. The final measure was governance, which looked at the transparency and openness of the organisation along with its fair business practices and ethical behaviour.

In order of ranking, the top ten organisations in the report were as follows:

The Lego Group (https://www.lego.com/en-gb/aboutus/lego-group)

Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb) Google (www.google.com) The

Walt Disney Company (https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/)

BMW Group (https://www.bmwgroup.com/en.html)

Intel (https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/homepage.html)

Robert Bosch (https://www.bosch.com/)

Cisco (https://www.cisco.com/c/en_uk/index.html)

Rolls Royce Aerospace(https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/civil-aerospace.aspx)

Colgate-Palmolive (https://www.colgatepalmolive.com/en-us)

Each of these businesses is leading the way in meaningful strategies that genuinely give back to the communities and environment around them. All are involving their employees in coming up with ways to better run the business so that it supports stakeholders and the environment whilst minimising wasteful business practices and seeking to extract maximum social value from business operations.

The new approach to doing business signals a real paradigm shift in the way that brands go about seeking a sustainable competitive advantage. The old mantras of maximum profit and minimum cost are gone, and today's customers are far more inclined to build long-term relationships with brands that share their values and which communicate these shared values through digital channels. This builds relationships between the brand and the customers that use it, signalling the benefits of choosing those products and services, which extend far beyond the core offer itself

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