Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries Quotes

“CSR sustains that companies should see to their personnel healthcare. ”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“According to related studies, “fear-based” staff management techniques engender a hostile atmosphere, which in turn arouses fierce competition and seriously impairs moral values.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“According to the Institute for Policy Studies (Anderson, Collins, Klinger, Pizzigati, 2011) the ratio between a CEO and an average company salary stood at 42 to 1 back in 1980, while it climbed to 263 to 1 and to 325 to 1 in 2009 and 2010 respectively.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“CSR begins “at home”. A paramount measure of an effectively responsible company lies in its human resources policies.  When companies proclaim CSR outwardly but acts contrarily inwardly, there is no true CSR. Instead, it is an inconsistency that will burst out into pieces.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“creating “social value” is not merely an abstraction. Companies may create it by using their managerial imagination or by forging strategic alliances. It is just about setting out to it, integrating it into corporate priorities and policies and maintaining absolute consistency between words and actions.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“become engaged in a more comprehensive leadership style which may include experts, activists, employees and consumers”.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“It is about time companies shifted from the simple strategies to earn a mere operation license towards earning a leadership license, that is, they should serve the needs of both their shareholders and stakeholders by making profits while also being a positive driver in society”.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“CSR shall be unmistakably defined as a responsibility incumbent upon all management levels and it shall be subject to ongoing follow-up by top executives”.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“CSR should begin at home. In order that corporations may proclaim CSR, they should implement it on their own staff. Decent working conditions, coupled with fair compensations, career growth opportunities and training are all essential. ”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“The solution lies in the principle of shared value, which involves creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges. Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress”.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“You cannot be a good house in a rapidly deteriorating neighborhood. The credibility and the fair functioning of the neighborhood matter a great deal. Without that, the integrity of the capitalist system will weaken further”.”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries

“Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their owner”
― Bernardo Kliksberg, Ethics for CEOs - Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Good for Businesses and Countries