Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth

CSR Training for Future Business Leaders: “ Integrating Labour Standards and Responsible Business in Organizations Towards Establishing Business Continuity: An Online Training for Future Business Leaders”

In line with the programme objective of promoting sustainable and inclusive growth by ensuring that investors and businesses and other stakeholders such as future business leaders have a better understanding of responsible business practices, the programme will organize another training activity for business management students who are considered to be the future business leaders.

RVR ILO 

Background

In line with the programme objective of promoting sustainable and inclusive growth by ensuring that investors and businesses and other stakeholders such as future business leaders have a better understanding of responsible business practices, the programme will organize another training activity for business management students who are considered to be the future business leaders. This group is regarded as important change agent that could help in the transformation of business practices to being more socially responsible. The training is aimed at promoting better understanding of the what, why and how of CSR/RBC for the purpose of instilling among the participants the essential knowledge, attitude and social values that will make them become effective instruments in the promotion of more socially responsible business in the future.

In undertaking this initiative, the ILO is collaborating once again with the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) – Ramon V. Del Rosario Sr. (RVR) Centre r for Corporate Responsibility (CCR) . The Centre is a part of AIM, an international management school and research institution.  Since its inception in July 2000, the AIM-RVR Centre for Corporate Responsibility has focused on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Governance (CG). It primarily promotes the practice of good corporate governance among private and public companies in the region and undertakes as well initiatives that involve corporate citizenship relative to the competitiveness of corporations and its impact on society. The Centre engages with firms and industries in Asia in order to promote Corporate Social Responsibility as a core business strategy and to expand CSR as fundamental to doing business in a globalized economy. 

Objectives

  • To create a better understanding of the concept and practice of corporate social responsibility/responsible business conduct.
  • To share knowledge on leading/authoritative  international CSR/RBC instruments
  • To foster knowledge and understanding of international labor standards, relevant national laws and regulations and the most common cases of non-compliance
  •  To provide model cases of enterprises that have demonstrated CSR/RBC best  practices in normal and COVID 19 time.

Participants


50 business management students

Resource Persons

  1. Dr. Dynah Basuil, Executive Director, AIM-RVR – CCR
  2. Atty. Ma. Consuelo “Connie” Bacay, Director, Bureau of Labour Relations, Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE)
  3. Ms. Ma. Rosalyn “Lenlen” Mesina, Country Program Manager – WeEmpower Asia, UN Women Philippines