YOUNG WOMEN BUSINESS EXECUTIVES PROGRAM

1. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY COURSE:

Strategies to Create Business and Social Value

Date: 12th May – 31st May, 2008
          15th September – 3rd October 2008

1. Program description

This course explores the socio-economics, socio-political consequences and the value creation of corporate social responsibility of investment decisions. Participants learn how to improve economic performance while contributing to the society and also discover how to align corporate culture with social responsibility strategies as well as how to measure their impact on the organization – and on the bottom line.

2. Course Objectives

Through an in-depth exploration of the dilemmas, challenges, and complexities inherent to existing models of corporate social responsibility, the program will push the frontiers of the field and bring into focus the next generation of issues facing practitioners. At the end of the course, the participants will;

• Understand the effects of strategic corporate social responsibility – its benefits and its costs
• Drive corporate social responsibility throughout the organization, integrating it with corporate strategy, decision making and risk assessment.
• Realign corporate culture with corporate social responsibility strategies
• Understand the political context of operations, and successful interact and communicate with public institutions, NGOs, and key stakeholders.
• Ensure that systems are in place for both avoiding potential ‘damaging events’ and mitigating the effects of a crisis after it has occurred.
• Identify and explore the most critical emerging issues facing the field of corporate social responsibility in the next decade.

3. Curriculum

The course covers the following units. It will run two modules in May and September 2008.

2. MANAGING SOCIAL AND FIRM VALUES.

• Recognizing the links between the welfare of society and that of the organization
• Opportunities to benefit the organization and the community in terms of the environment, diversity , human rights, social impact, and the economy.
• Integrating corporate social responsibility best practices into key business areas
• Making the business case by calculating benefits and costs
• Identity and managing the primary positive and negative impacts

1. Driving Corporate Social Responsibility throughout the Organization
1. Aligning corporate social responsibility strategies and goals with organizational goals
2. Embedding corporate social responsibility strategies within the company culture for long-term sustainability
3. Providing continual companywide visibility of the individual and departmental impacts from socially responsible practices
4. Communicating the impact of corporate social responsibility to capital markets, shareholders, and other stakeholders

3. MANAGING RISKS AND DECISION MAKING

• Evaluate complex environments and potential impacts before making capital investments or other business decisions
• Interacting successfully with governments, NGOs, and stakeholders
• Decentralizing to avoid a one-size-fits-all approach across the organization
• Identify vulnerabilities and predicting possible pitfalls
• Developing preparation and prevention process for handling crisis scenarios
• Integrating corporate social responsibility initiatives in vendor and supplier agreements.

Admission

The course is suitable for senior officers in Government, Non-governmental organizations and companies engaged in social projects.

Program Fees:
The Ksh. 40,000 covers tuition, case materials.

Duration

The program will take 3 weeks.
Classes commence 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm

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