There is a lot of research on the benefits of corporate social responsibility and integrating social impact into businesses. In our findings, we see that these reports combine to show there are 7 research-backed reasons as to why businesses should be socially responsible.
This below list is by no means exhaustive, but it's some of our favorite reading and it helped us develop our eBook, Connect the Dots, the Case for Integrating Social Impact And People Development Programs. So if you're eager for some more industry research, statistics, and data, we recommend grabbing a BIG cup of coffee and skimming the following 28 reports:
The Purpose-Driven Professional, Deloitte, 2015
Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement: Making the Connection, Mandrake, 2009
How Millennials Want to Live and Work, Gallup, 2016
Influencing Workplace Culture Through Employee Recognition, SHRM / GloboForce, 2016
Getting Beyond the BS of Leadership Literature, McKinsey, 2016
The Employee Experience Index, IBM / GloboForce, 2017
Purpose At Work, Imperative / LinkedIn, 2016
Global Generations: Worklife Challenges Across the Generations, EY, 2015
Workplace Learning Report, LinkedIn 2018
Making the Most of Corporate Social Responsibility, McKinsey 2009
Annual Global CEO Survey, PwC, 2018
The High Cost of Doing Nothing, Ken Blanchard Companies, 2011
Rewriting the Rules for the Digital Age, Deloitte, 2017
Why Leadership Development Programs Fail, McKinsey, 2017
Five Trends Shaping Employee Social Impact Programs, Network for Good, 2017
Workplace Boredom Study, Udemy, 2016
Employee Experience as a Business Driver, SHRM / GloboForce 2016
Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications for Human Resources and Talent Engagement, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, 2012
When HR Meets CSR, the Business Benefits, CSR Wire, 2013
Giving in Numbers, CECP, 2018
What’s Working: Effective Employee Volunteering in Asia, Points of Light, 2017
On the Brink of a Gamechanger, CIPD, 2015
Beyond Retention, Deloitte, 2014
Designing Work Cultures for the Global Era, SHRM, 2017
The Global Human Capital Report, WEF, 2017
Does Company Culture Really Pay Off? Glassdoor, 2015
Employee Satisfaction and Corporate Performance, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2015
Creating Shared Value, Harvard Business Review, 2011
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