Category: Ethics, CSR & Responsible Business
Discover a comprehensive library of reports and guides on ethics and responsible business in the Board Agenda Resource Centre
People managers’ guide to mental health at work
Mind and the CIPD have jointly developed this guide to help organisations overcome the challenges of poor mental health at work.
Revealing the Full Picture: Your Guide to ESG Reporting
The intention of this guide is to help companies gain a clear understanding of what ESG information they should provide and how they should go about providing it.
Reporting Matters 2018
The report looks in detail at the underlying processes and impact of reporters’ activities on three key issues—climate change, water and human rights.
Making Work More Meaningful: Building a Fulfilling Employee Experience
This report explores the implications for business leaders of employees’ evolving expectations.
The State of Corporate Governance in the Era of Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
This paper examines the board’s role in creating long-term sustainable value.
UK Corporate Governance Code 2018
At the heart of this code is an updated set of principles that emphasise the value of good corporate governance to long-term sustainable success.
When boards look to AI, what should they see?
Artificial intelligence (AI) warrants the close attention of the board because it presents opportunities when applied well and risks when applied badly. Organisations that successfully exploit AI can disrupt the market, drive growth and manage their commercial risk. Yet, AI technologies also present serious ethical, legal and programming risks that need to be managed carefully. What’s more, AI is poorly understood by business, with many organisations unsure as to when and where they should use it.
Corporate Governance from the Board’s Perspective
Mazars and ecoDa highlight key challenges facing European corporate governance systems
A quarter of a century since the world’s first corporate governance code, Mazars and ecoDa report the headline findings from a survey of 130 listed companies across 11 EU countries and set out the key issues that need to be considered by boards, shareholders and regulators.
2018 Global Benchmark on Workplace Ethics
Since 1994, the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) has conducted a longitudinal, cross-sectional study of workplace conduct, from the employee’s perspective.
Ethical Leadership Around the World – and Why it Matters
This report can be chiefly simplified into two key findings: 1) stronger ethical leadership equates to reduced ethics and compliance risk, and 2) stronger ethical leadership increased the likelihood organisations will keep valued employees.