Where are we?. CSR and environmental management in Venezuela
Saturday, September 25, 2010
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assess the impacts of management and business development in a society as often as necessary is a healthy action. It is therefore important to follow up studies, diagnostics, and surveys that yield the data to know where it is, points to strengthen and growth opportunities. Fenelon
Perera, solutions manager social and environmental sustainability Espiñeira, Sheldon & Associates firm PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) spoke on Saturday 25 September on the results of the Second Survey: Practices and Current Trends in CSR and Environmental Management Venezuela.
The progress in incorporating social and environmental commitment in the mission, vision, objectives and strategies of organizations and to stimulate debate in the country on CSR and its influence on strategic decision processes of organizations in the country were some of the objectives that the firm was drawn to do this survey for the second consecutive year.
Perera said that "a survey of 37 questions which included 109 companies from different economic sectors such as Banking and Insurance, Manufacturing, Food, Services, Telecommunications and Technology, Pharmaceutical and Health, Education, Oil, Energy, Gas, Automotive and others belonging to the customer database and linked to the national level of the firm, distinguished by their leadership in their respective fields. "He noted that representatives of CSR and related areas, Board of Directors, Finance, Operations, Security Higiese and Environment, Marketing, Human Resources, among others, with the profile of participants in a 82% senior executives (presidents, vice presidents, partners, directors and senior management)
Among the findings from this study can include:
Increasingly, organizations have incorporated CSR objectives and environmental management into their strategies business, but as recommended Perera in the program call is to do strategically and increase the shares.
also appreciated progress in the integration of CSR and GA within the organizational structure in more than 50% of the organizations surveyed. In terms of social actions continues to place the contributions of donations or products and resources followed by corporate volunteering. Currently less than 50% of social actions undertaken by companies consider developing its own social projects.
Among the next challenges that emphasizes the study, they are placed on environmental issues but the trend is towards increased implementation of environmental management systems.
The main obstacles companies in Venezuela have been found mainly to the lack of professionals and lack of knowledge on social and environmental issues, and lack of resources or budgets to these areas.
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