Compliance & Governance (CSRWire)

CR’s Elephant-in-the Room: Where’s the Money?

 

A CROs Accountability & Financial Impact Pulse Survey.

By Dirk Olin and Jay Whitehead
 
It is true that CEOs and CROs are the chief custodians of core values for corporate stakeholders—including investors, employees, customers, supply chains, customers, creditors, and government. But among executives who fill a dozen key line management roles, two elephant-in-the-room questions loom large in corporate responsibility. First, who is most accountable for, and commits company resources (read: money and people) to, implement the policies? And second, at the line management level, what are corporate responsibility’s non-financial and financial impacts?