Best Practices in Corporate Responsibility: CEOs Prefer Corporate Governance over Sustainability - A blog by Aman Singh

Aman Singh is the CSR Editor at Vault.com, where she focuses on how corporate diversity practices and sustainability translate into recruitment and strategic development. Her blog, In Good Company, discusses on many of these issues.
Apr 29, 2010 4:59 PM ET

Best Practices in Corporate Responsibility: CEOs Prefer Corporate Governance ov…

Earlier this week we celebrated the findings of the latest salary survey for corporate responsibility professionals, conducted by Acre Resources. Encouragingly, the survey included for the first time, a bigger responding population from North America. Now it's time to continue the discussion past salary levels to actual practice and see how the field plays out at companies internally, what are the main focuses under CSR at most organizations, whether sustainability remains a PR buzzword for CEOs and what industries are leading in encompassing the core principles of corporate responsibility.

Corporate Responsibility Magazine released the findings from their annual survey on Corporate Responsibility Best Practices this week. This survey had a three-pronged focus: answering the level of commitment emphasized by companies amid a recession, whether corporate responsibility hurt or helped profits, and finally to see whether companies and boards really cared about corporate responsibility. Spread across 650 companies globally, the report was released jointly with the NYSE Euronext and SharedXpertise. 

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