The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) offers a new advisory service to companies.
The Department of Culture and Ethics and Corporate Directors (CEDE) help manage Corporate Social Responsibility of Companies.
The aim is to develop the ethical dimension of the organizations and provide tools to act responsibly with its stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers and society) says the director of the Chair, Ignacio Segado.
This initiative seeks UPCT make available to companies a tool to manage the big challenges of the XXI century from an ethical point of view and responsibility.
This project involves, in addition to Segado, researchers Maria Eugenia Sanchez, Madrid and Simon Antonia Hernandez.
Thus, the Department of Culture and Business Ethics Directive and UPCT advise companies to implement corporate social responsibility in its management and develop their practices and actions of a socially responsible way, from an economic, social and environmental terms.
UPCT may also perform work in the fields of sustainability, relating to social concern or care for the environment.
For mature ethical culture within organizations, UPCT intends to carry out dynamic actions such as preparing reports CSR and ethical audits, creation of ethical codes, discussion groups and committees working moral standards, and programming training courses such as seminars and conferences that respond to the needs of businesses in this area.
As a starting point, the Chair has started to manage Corporate Social Responsibility UPCT, launching and developing the web http://responsabilidad.upct.es/ I Corporate Responsibility UPCT.
This report will be presented next September.
The Chair Culture and Ethics Directors and Corporate UPCT is constituted as a meeting point, debate and development of those research initiatives, training and dissemination looking at the relationship between ethics, corporate culture management and social responsibility a stimulus when to provide the economic activity of greater human dimension.
Its mission is to analyze the relationship between ethics and economics at the organizational level and deepen their implementation in the company from a theoretical and applied perspective.
Source: UPCT