Inclusion & Opportunity

When a company takes the time to understand how its employees of different ages and backgrounds need to feel recognized, it increases its chances of engagement and retention. Engagement and retention however, can’t be forced or bought.

But social workers, teachers or philanthropists don’t corner the market on meaning. If you want to create meaning and a core purpose at your company, here are the top five inspiring — and practical — steps.

Bellevue University announced today that the latest addition to their stable of corporate partners is Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc.. The University, with input from Arby’s executive leadership team, developed a custom learning program exclusively for Arby’s Team Members. The program, called Arby’s Business Management & Leadership, gives Team Members the knowledge and skills they need to be more confident on the job and grow in their careers.

Without major support of early-stage research, a breakthrough for Alzheimer's Disease Research is almost impossible to occur. Support in the form of workplace giving campaigns and other corporate responsibility programs can help nonprofits like Alzheimer's Disease Research, and the researchers they fund, find a cure for this devastating disease. Learn More.

In the U.K. people here, like everywhere else, are working in tough times, which looks set to continue as people put in longer hours, are more stressed and feel anxious about the future, particularly job security and their financial future. Now, a new report published by leadership training organisation Morgan Redwood shows that less than half of U.K. businesses believe they have a duty of care to employee health, with only 46 percent of firms regarding staff health as an employer’s responsibility.

Is recognition the holy grail of employee engagement and corporate success? It’s become an article of faith in the last decade or so and the subject of a lot of research.

Today, after 15 years at the helm of the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, Georg Kell will step down as Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, the organization he helped found in 2000 and which he has built into a global movement over the past decade.