Research brief
Productivity and decent work: Achieving synergies between social and economic dimensions at the enterprise level
This research brief explores how productivity and decent work can be mutually reinforcing at the enterprise level, focusing on the relationship between human resource management and corporate social responsibility. It reviews emerging research and highlights how businesses, governments and trade unions can help align economic performance with social outcomes.
Key points
- Enterprises should better understand and further develop links between the functions of human resource management and corporate social responsibility that can be mutually reinforcing.
- Businesses can be more innovative in identifying opportunities to create synergies between their economic and social goals to fulfil their corporate social responsibility.
- Trade unions can play a positive role in facilitating enterprises to adopt decent work and productivity enhancement initiatives, aligning the interests of business and workers more closely.
- Governments at all levels can support enterprises to balance their economic and social performance by setting regulatory standards, providing policy incentives, and promoting organizational transparency.
- Research can help identify pain points for enterprises as well as examples of good practices for dissemination across national boundaries and industrial sectors.
Additional details
Author(s)
- Fang Lee Cooke
- Nikolai Rogovsky