Building Sustainability with LBTC Corporate Social Responsibility Courses

Limited only to the internal policies of the organization until lately, CSR has now grown into a full-fledged vertical with its own policies aligned with the organizational ones, and compliant with the standard rules and regulations. Today, with the emergence of concepts like sustainability, and long-term strategies, earning long-term profits, CSR has become a mainstream operation and a major area of concern along with research for organizations. LBTC’s corporate social responsibility courses aim at developing CSR expertize through a detailed understanding of various CSR concepts, CSR’s impacts on business, and CSR management, etc.

Business owners denying the importance of CSR need to revisit their thoughts, and rather upgrade themselves to become sensible business operators, by developing CSR strategies aimed at nurturing long-term profits. CSR definitely earns an important place in the global business race. A lot of clients looking forward to sourcing global vendors are quite concerned about the vendor organization’s CSR policy, in order to assess their sustainability in their line of business. Initially managed by line managers or directors already managing multiple tasks, CSR now is looked after by CSR experts who are well-equipped with the knowledge required to chalk out a comprehensive CSR strategy, and its long-term impacts on the business. As we proceed, we would now discuss the course content of LBTC’s corporate social responsibility courses.

LBTC Corporate Social Responsibility Courses

• Stakeholder Management and Engagement: CSR standards, government and governance, stakeholder meaning and origins, stakeholder consensus: deviance and uniformity
• How CSR is managed: Understand what companies want from CSR, CSR strategy, qualities of a good CSR management, the business case of CSR, structuring the CSR function.
• CSR Impact: Understanding the impact of CSR, different dimensions of CSR impact, the challenges of determining the impact.
• CSR Criticisms: Introducing critiques of CSR, CSR is anti-business, the future of CSR, where is CSR heading, CSR fails to achieve its goals, the role of business in the society, mega-trends affecting CSR, the scope of CSR is too narrow, embedding and integrating CSR, CSR is pro-business etc.
• CSR and Governance: Corporate governance theories, CSR perspective commentary, corporate governance reform drivers, and international developments in corporate governance.
• Socially Responsible Investment: This deals with different dimensions of SRI including its origin and development, analysis of sustainable investment, practice types and analysis, SRI approaches and engagement, SRI performance, SRI index performance and fund performance, market growth, and trends.
• CSR Reporting: The nature, challenges, and emergence of CSR reporting, conventional financial reporting and CSR reporting, reporting issues for corporate management, the upsurge in CSR reporting since the early 1990s.

The target audience for this course is chief officers, chairpersons, board members and directors, organizational and departmental heads, prospective managers who wish to develop sustainable business, people who are concerned with the role of business in the society, business owners who wish to optimize profits and remain publicly accountable for its environmental and social record, etc.

The first scheduled batch begins on 6 August until 15 August 2018, and the last one is scheduled to begin on 3 December to 12 December 2018. The course code is SM104, and the fee is GBP 3080 + VAT.

Looking at business development in the short-run isn’t a prudent choice, given the objectives of leading the race for years. CSR is a significant factor helping companies build long-term strategies and therefore long-term profits. LBTC’s corporate social responsibility courses aiming to build end-to-end CSR expertise that help fulfill long-term business requirements.

Rohit Chandiramani is the CEO of London Business Training & Consulting. Having completed his MBA, not only is Rohit a student of Business and Management, but through his firm has also facilitated the delivery of the subject matter to hundreds of lear