Corporations should be capturing these outcomes in their annual review of business and social performance related to their employees and customers.
Instead of basing incentive payments strictly on financial performance corporations could have based them on environmental and social performance as well as financial performance.
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Microfinance is unique from mainstream finance in that it has a double bottom line mission: both social performance and financial performance metrics are measured.
This might include by mandating social performance through environmental standards in real estate, or by using tax credits to favor subsectors like affordable housing.
Simply put, organizations must make environmental and social performance a part of the way the corporation operates just as much as it does financial performance.
Economic performance is seen as vital because it serves social performance, assessed principally on the basis of lasting employment at a local, regional and national level.
Our surveys of Board members and HR executives show clearly that most large organizations have not integrated environmental and social performance into their way of doing business.
We will once again see that executive performance was solely focused on financial performance and that social and environmental performance received little attention.
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Although financial performance increased dramatically in 2010, there is little evidence that the social and environmental performance of organizations improved at the same rate or at all.
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Individuals are not selected based on their knowledge or interest in social and environmental performance.
It will not be a positive picture for those who believe sustainable organizations require high levels of financial, social and environmental performance.
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In addition, it would have brought home to executives the need for social and environmental performance as it relates to the sustainable effectiveness.
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Until they do, they will not be sustainably effective and will continue to be criticized and vilified for their poor social and environmental performance.
On the other, the model legislation requires that benefit corporations report on their overall social and environmental performance and make them available to the public, using a third-party evaluator.
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It is great that the Global Reporting Initiative is helping more companies to report on their social and environmental performance, but it would be better if more analysts and investors used this information.
Social and environmental performance is not always measured.
Unfortunately, recent surveys which have been done as part of our research programs at the Center for Effective Organizations show that most organizations do not integrate social and environmental performance into the way the organization operates.
Complementing a central HR system implementation, products like SharePoint server can act a central hub for collaboration and information management, while Yammer can facilitate social networking and performance management, and Lync can enable VoIP, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and more.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campaigns highlight corporate successes related to both economic performance and social commitment.
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What is the business value of social change and the social value of business performance?
In the report, the company discusses its workplace safety record, environmental performance and social contributions in detail.
To help things along, a growing number of software companies are building social platforms to boost performance.
Voters focused on local concerns: crime, administrative efficiency, social welfare and the performance of officials in office.
They evaluated the remaining 350 companies using key environmental, social, and governance performance indicators, including waste productivity, CEO-to-average-worker pay ratio, leadership diversity, and employee turnover.
Social media is a performance, Baratunde Thurston told me recently.
Since the Summer Olympics, clients and their agencies have been made hyper-aware of the global speed and performance of social media, especially when linked to traditional advertising forms.
While the debates on the measurement of economic performance and social progress more often than not adopt a technical stance, this technicality must not mask the challenges linked to measurement.
Plenty of investors have lamented the stock performance of social media companies like Facebook after their public debuts, but at least those investors got the stock they paid for.
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Judging by the responses on social media, the performance appeared destined to become one of the most poignant memories of the Super Bowl, regardless of what played out in the game.
But big technology companies have become more willing to spend large amounts of money on such companies given the financial performance of social media companies such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, executives and investors said.
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