Michael Hopkins

• PhD
• CEO at MHCinternational Ltd

CSR/Sustainability link to the Big Issues of the Day

Define, measure, report on CSR/Sustainability with the Hopkins CSR Model (H-CSR-M) Dr. Michael Hopkins, www.csrfi.com . In this paper, I present a methodology to define and measure CSR/Sustainability, some aspects of Leadership and presents a Strategy to implement. The model has been updated from earlier versions that started with my first book ‘’...

A History Lesson for myself and others on: BREXIT Stupidity for the New Generation. This book covers the issues about BREXIT as developed through a petition that the author ran over 2018 to 2019. On 31 January 2020 the UK left the EU. Well sort of. No-one really knows what to expect but the mood of many is dour. We know that the new chancellor, Saj...

The need to address questions of low living standards, exploitation, poverty, unemployment and how to promote human development through the SDGs, in general, has been almost entirely the preserve of Governments. Corporations have entered the field of helping communities through philanthropy. But whatever the sources the author argues that sustainab...

This book aims to address the needs of professionals in private companies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations and governments who are currently involved in corporate social responsibility and sustainability (henceforth CSR to encompass both terms), or would like to be involved in CSR, and wish to make the concept of C...

The need to address questions of low living standards, exploitation, poverty, unemployment and how to promote human development through the SDGs, in general, has been almost entirely the preserve of Governments. Corporations have entered the field of helping communities through philanthropy. But whatever the sources the author argues that sustainab...

The need to address questions of low living standards, exploitation, poverty, unemployment and how to promote human development through the SDGs, in general, has been almost entirely the preserve of Governments. Corporations have entered the field of helping communities through philanthropy. But whatever the sources the author argues that sustainab...

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In this book, CSR has been charged with addressing many of the challenges that accompany globalization. Understandably, corporations are now expected to think beyond the national borders of the country where their headquarters are based or from where they operate. Corporate strategies are now formulated by companies with a globalized world in min...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global movement. At its weakest level, it is represented...

I n this introductory paper to this new journal, I should like to set the stage with a definition of CSR followed by its relation to the literature and other definitions. The definition has served me well and, as with all substantive definitions, its use will allow you to develop a CSR strategy with your eye always on the ball. Over the years I hav...

The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective...

Corporate scandals and lack of confidence in our largest institutions mean that corporate social responsibility (CSR) now matters more than ever. Encroaching on CSR are concepts such as corporate sustainability and corporate citizenship, and older concerns with business ethics, business in society and the ethical corporation. This significantly rev...

Corporate social responsibility is often about seeming to “do good works.” And, while there is certainly nothing wrong with doing more good, there can be an implication that companies need to do good works because the underlying structure of business is not good, or morally neutral.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the similarities and differences between Total Quality Management (TQM) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Moreover, the paper considers the implications of these similarities and differences for the future development of TQM and CSR. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a structured dis...

This report examines one of the most important policy issues facing the Government of Azerbaijan today: how best to use the country’s new oil revenues to achieve long-term sustainable economic growth in ways which benefit all segments of Azerbaijani society. There has already been considerable discussion among national policy-makers about this sign...

In this introductory paper to a new journal, I set the stage with a definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) followed by its relation to the literature and other definitions. The definition has served me well and, as with all substantive definitions, its use will allow you to develop a CSR strategy with your eye always on the ball. Over...

This paper defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sets up a framework to measure it. To date, the measurement systems used and the various concepts of CSR have no systematic basis. Indicators seem to be chosen on the whim of the moment. However, at least some data now exist to measure progress on social aspects of corporate behaviour. In...

In this chapter some of the criticisms of CSR are channelled, into seven essentially different statements. In brief they are: 1. Lack of definition, everyone seems to have their own concept or definition. 2. CSR is just part of public relations to bamboozle an increasingly sceptical public. 3. CSR is just another word for corporate philanthropy and...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been an increasingly important issue for private and non-government businesses to consider when investing in countries. The paper specifically addresses transnational corporations and how they can negatively affect the development of countries when socially irresponsible and notes the increasing consumer aw...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is on the ''hot list'' of emerging social phenomena. This makes the question of the relationship between CSR and corporate staying power a key issue. There is a belief, and one that will be explored in this paper, that there is a positive link between social and financial performance especially when looking at...

This paper 1 examines the issue of sustainability in the internal operations of companies. It examines what sustainability means in the business context, looks at how the concept can be measured with an example applied to companies in Brazil and examines the economics of corporate sustainability. It briefly explores the business case and raises a n...

The CSR movement presents the accounting profession with both challenges and opportunities. The challenges involve a shift from short-term to long-term thinking in response to the sustainable development debate and the need to engage with a much wider range of stakeholder groups and issues than accountants in business (in practice) are accustomed t...

The manpower planning school stresses, as seen in Chapter 1, labour market research and labour market signalling as ‘the’ alternative to manpower forecasting. There is no objection to the need for alternative techniques but, as also argued, there is a need to perform, and perfect, forecasting to provide a future vision to assist in the assessment o...

To counteract the pessimism of manpower forecasting models and to provide a flexible tool to examine alternative future scenarios of the manpower planning problem, the author created the MACBETH (MAcro Compter Based EmploymenT Heuristic) model. The main equations of the model are described in this chapter followed by an application to Sri Lanka in...

Manpower planning has, at its core, the problem of mismatch between labour supply and demand, that is unemployment. Consequently, a better understanding of the manpower planning problem can be gained by examining theories about the determination of unemployment. Therefore, this chapter overviews some of the leading strands of thought that have atte...

How to determine the future training needs of the labour market in developing countries is a question that has confronted manpower analysts and educational planners for decades. There is no easy solution simply because no one can forecast the future and, therefore, what labour demands are likely to be, anymore than one can predict stock market move...

Data availability for manpower or human resource planning at the and unemployment – and this is not confined to the developing countries with frequent changes of concepts and terminology occurring in the developed countries mainly to suit the interests of one political party or another. In this chapter, therefore, the question of ‘what are we tryin...

The objective of the calibration of the MACBETH model in Sri Lanka, described in this chapter, was to assess the implications of alternative growth paths on employment and (broad) skill requirements.1 The chapter is organized as follows. The next section presents the basic data used to calibrate the model, the subsequent section describes the refer...

The main thrust of this monograph is to re-examine the manpower planning debate in developing countries. This debate was vigorous in the 1970s and 1980s but has been relatively quiet since then. The debate appeared to end with the notion that all forecasting techniques that purported to assess manpower requirements in the future were dubious and th...

How to determine the future training needs of the labor market is a question that has confronted manpower analysts and educational planners for decades and is the focus of this monograph. There is no easy solution simply because no-one can forecast the future and, therefore, what labor demands are likely anymore than one can predict stock market mo...

This paper describes how information was collected at a national conference in Nigeria and a map compiled to give an initial assessment of the distribution and endemicity of dracunculiasis (guinea worm disease) throughout the country. The map provided a stimulus for further studies of the status of the disease and for the consideration of national...

The indicators suggested in the previous chapter are much easier to present than to collect for many companies at once. My aim was, originally, to rank the Fortune 500 largest companies in the world from 1 to 500 in terms of social responsibility. This proved more time-consuming than I had anticipated and so I restricted my first attempt to do this...

Today, the term ‘corporate code of ethics’ has tended to replace the original phrase, ‘code of conduct’, which is still widespread, but is more usually restricted to discussions of the conduct of public officials. A corporate code of ethics is, typically, a set of principles that state the moral obligations of the company in its relations with a wi...

The future within which companies will operate will be entirely different from what we see today. This future will be created partly by the private sector, and, increasingly, by the visions that socially responsible companies have and will have. The future is not just being created by enterprises, although these are having a bigger influence than e...

So far, I have concentrated on the USA and UK. I have argued that corporate social responsibility is increasing for a variety of reasons, not least because it makes economic sense for large TNCs in these countries to act socially responsibly. But is this just an English-speaking phenomenon? In the future, do transnational companies, located in all...

In this chapter, I outline the elements of what, potentially, could be in a planetary bargain. The two main actors in such a bargain are governments and business. There are, of course, many actors on the world stage, and governments are not always the best to represent them, even in democratic societies. Yet, if a voluntary bargain is to come about...

What indicators could be used to measure what is meant by an SRE? It is easier to devise indicators that measure some aspect of an SRE than to conclude that this particular set of indicators describes what is actually meant by an SRE, and that high scores on each of these indicators thereby defines when a corporation is socially responsible. These...

The word ‘stakeholder’ conjures up images of early gold rushers bashing bits of wood into the ground to establish their claim. It is also an ugly word, but one, nevertheless, that has passed into common usage among the growing community concerned with corporate social responsibility. There is no general agreement on who or what are the stakeholders...

This chapter draws on a number of specific experiences and case-studies of SREs to illustrate the application of some of the ideas expressed up to now, and to illustrate the growing importance being attached to these ideas. It covers the Body Shop’s values report, because this was one of the first to carry out such a widespread review of its activi...

One of the main tasks of this book is to identify a set of indicators that can be used to measure the different aspects of social responsibility of enterprises. Most of the work in this area to date has been in the development of indicators within a social audit framework, or within screens designed to identify ethical investments. Before I present...

This chapter introduces the notion of corporate social responsibility, from its historical roots to what is happening today, particularly in the US and UK, where ideas about social responsibility have made their biggest impact to date. The key issue for a business is its bottom line, and how social responsibility either contributes to or weighs aga...

This chapter focuses on two main questions about corporate social responsibility in developing countries that must be answered if a planetary bargain is to be implemented. The first is to do with how a large transnational corporation (TNC), based in the richer world, operates in a developing country. Should such a TNC and its subsidiaries be more s...

A Planetary Bargain to Promote Social and Economic Development as We Move into the Next Millennium Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) now matters and has taken root at an even faster pace than envisaged when the hardback version of this book was written some four years ago. Encroaching on CSR are other concepts such as corporate sustainability,...

Concern for the social responsibility of business by both the public and enterprises themselves has been growing since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The private sector's relative unconcern with Apartheid in South Africa, poor and dangerous products, and environmental disasters have all led concerned people to question the relative social autonomy of...

Executive Summary This paper summarises some of the contemporary thinking on anti-poverty strategies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and makes some suggestions for UNDP interventions. The people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are, along with those in South Asia, among the poorest in the world. In 1992, between 45 and 50 percent of the approximately 525 mi...

Abstract: This paper defines corporate soci al responsibility (CSR) and sets up a framework to measure it. To date, the measurement systems used and the various concepts of CSR have no system atic basis. Indicators seem to be chosen on the whim of the moment. Howeve r, at least some data now exist to measure progress on social aspects of corpo...

The UNDP's first annual Human Development Report is reviewed and discussed. The report introduces a new index—the human development index (HDI)—as a counter to measures of national income such as GDP. Measuring development of countries with the aid of this index gives a significantly different ordering to one based on GNP per capita. This point is...

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Gives a broad picture of the present day levels and structure of employment in the Third World and of developments over the past 20 yr, showing that industry and especially services are rapidly outstripping agriculture as the main provider of jobs. Begins by examining a number of basic economic indicators for the major developing regions; next, it...

Basic needs should be seen as an organizing concept in examining development problems. Chapter 1 considers what a basic needs approach is, how it could be implemented and what its international aspects are: Chapter 2 examines economic theory and its relevance for understanding a basic needs approach. Concludes that the concept of basic needs falls...

Reports on work done in Brazil, India, Kenya and Colombia to specify broad policy alternatives for future development strategies. Describes the application of a quantified systems approach to various scenarios in order to show how a large number of interacting policies can be analysed in terms of their contribution to meeting basic needs between 19...

This article summarizes the results of a socioeconomic model of basic needs that was applied to four countries—Brazil, Colombia, India, and Kenya. A modeling approach was thought necessary in order to make more precise the concept of basic needs. Although the work has not been entirely successful in doing that, from the policy experiment attempted,...

A simple closed system, one product mathematical model of an economy is described; its aim is to help discussions of the effects of technological change on employment and related issues like income distribution. The main conclusion of the mathematical exercise based on the model is that an introduction of new technologies, in order to have positive...

Done years ago when I was a naive researcher at ILO...today still naive about the world which seems an even bigger mess than in the 1970s...but life expectancy is increasing more or less everywhere..so I am still positive about the world!

This article compares the results from two models developed to explore the relationship between policy instruments and income distribution in developing countries. The BACHUE model is a long-run economic-demographic model of the Philippines and the Adelman-Robinson model is a medium-term computable general equilibrium model of Korea. In spite of di...

This paper briefly describes a medium- to long-term dynamic simulation model of economic-demographic interrelationships in a developing country that was developed by researchers in the International Labour Office. The model, applied to the Philippines, is illustrated by providing some examples of the effects of policy changes (e.g. migration polici...

First time 1973 census of Somalia was published, also gives an overview of the country at that time

PIP The BACHUE model, a dynamic simulation technique developed within the International Labour Organization's World Employment Program, has been applied to the Philippines. The model simulates behavior and consequences in a number of key areas: fertility, marriage, migration, savings and expenditure, and labor force participation for households and...

Criticisms are often voiced both of large-scale quantitative simulation models in general and of the approaches followed by particular models. This paper summarizes the attributes and failings of such models, with particular reference to models of economic-demographic systems. On balance, the authors conclude that the potential gains--both analytic...

CSR Definition CSR is concerned with treating the stakeholders of the firm ethically or in a responsible manner. 'Ethically or responsible' means treating stakeholders in a manner deemed acceptable in civilised societies. Social includes economic responsibility. Stakeholders exist both within a firm and outside. The wider aim of social responsibili...

L'objet principal de la thèse est celui de re-examiner le débat portant sur l'organisation de la main d'oeuvre dans les pays en voie de développement. La thèse analyse les questions de planning d'emploi et de main d'oeuvre autour desquelles se sont établi des débats controversés. Par la suite, il est soutenu que l'utilisation de modèles pour le pla...

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