How familiar are you with guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct?
Did you know that many business people engaged in corporate responsibility find it challenging to persuade their colleagues to engage in responsible business conduct?
This is simply because people are not familiar with ‘responsible business conduct language’. Underestimated is how important it is to translate responsible business conduct language into language that is understandable to business.
It is no longer enough for companies to claim they respect for example human rights; they must know and show that they do. It is no longer enough for rights-holders merely to harbor the hope that governments and companies will fulfill their respective obligations; they are entitled to demand remedy for harm done.
International guidelines, complicated language?
International guidelines such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the IFC Performance Standards and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are particularly useful.
Guidelines and codes of conduct are often difficult to grasp. Complexity and legal language are often a bottleneck for employees and entrepreneurs to properly apply international CSR frameworks and standards.
Communicate CSR language in a simple way
International Guidelines restructures guidelines enabling better oversight and insight. With this new structure we create apps, tools and games to help people and businesses to understand complex CSR frameworks and standards, create awareness and apply them in practice.
Gamification and Apps
Our tools like the OECD gameshow and the Responsible Business Conduct webapp help companies step by step to become acquaintance with responsible international business conduct.
Test yourself and win!
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Source: ‘Human Rights Speak’ into ‘Business Speak’, by Prof. Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair of the OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct. https://friendsoftheoecdguidelines.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/translating-human-rights-speak-into-business-speak