As businesses start to look beyond the COVID-19 crisis, this event seeks to identify the areas of risk related to the social responsibility of business.
Following the recent publication of the Ernst & Young (EY) Global Integrity Report, EY claimed the pandemic will lead, optimistically, to improved business ethics. Looking deeper into the data, EY found that – actually – only 21 per cent of junior employees appeared to agree, whilst the majority (53 per cent) of junior employees were not confident that their management abides by relevant laws, codes of conduct and industry regulations.
In addition, 13 per cent of EY’s respondents were prepared to ignore irresponsible business conduct to boost their own career or pay, with the figure rising to 20 per cent among directors.
These discrepancies, we will discuss, are likely subtle signals of more dangerous problems lurking which may jeopardise the performance, and even survival of firms in a post pandemic world.
But is social, environmental, and economic uncertainty really the new normal? Or did the crisis ‘wake up’ stakeholders to the issues underlying the business reality?
Speakers include:
- Dr Giulio Nardella (Loughborough University)
- Professor Mat Hughes (Loughborough University)
- Romy Kenyon (EMEA Sustainability Manager Sustainability at 3M)
- Dr Anna Grosman (Loughborough University London)
- Dr Irina Surdu (University of Warwick)