Was Corporate Social Responsibility responsible for the BP spill?
Absolutely! CSR? Don’t quit your day job! (so says the Washington Post) by Chris Jarvis, Senior Consultant for Realized Worth, Follow Chris on Twitter @RealizedWorth I was flabbergasted. I had to read the article three times just to be sure I wasn’t missing some essential qualifier. Here was the Washington Post equating Corporate Social Responsibility with charity and philanthropy. “But the gulf oil spill and the financial crisis have taught us, rather brutally, that the heart of the relationship between business and society doesn’t lie with the charitable deeds that companies do in their off-hours but whether they are doing their day jobs in ways that help — or hurt — the rest of us.” Chrystia Freeland, global editor at large for Thomson Reuters, wrote the article “What’s BP’s social responsibility?” (Sunday, July 18, 2010). Google reader brought it to my attention and halfway through the first paragraph I was hooked – particularly at the point where Chrystia suggests, “I would like t
