Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability: What is it? What it means for the HE Sector

The main route into the UTC Corporate Responsibility Index is traditionally via the Environment Index or the environment/sustainability manager within each participant's institution. Often colleagues in HR, Strategy, Communications, Finance, Procurement and other departments are asked to contribute - and can't always see the 'fit' with their day job. UTC Participants report that this does change over time, especially once their Index feedback report comes out and results are communicated... However, establishing a cross-functional Index team is reported as being the biggest initial hurdle for most Participants in Universities that Count - yet the most satisfying outcome!

Here Professor David Grayson CBE, Director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield Management School, discusses the relevance of CR to Human Resources in Higher Education - and recently presented his work to the Annual Conference of the UPA, the Universities' Personnel Association in Belfast:

"CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY: WHAT IS IT, WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR - AND WHAT HR PROFESSIONALS SHOULD DO ABOUT IT"