Save Energy

Save Energy consumed by your organization. It is one of your social responsiblities. Here are some tips.

• Reduce business mileage by using video conferencing and home working
• Use lighting controls to ensure that lights aren’t left switched on when offices are unoccupied
• Control air conditioning according to the requirement
• Use natural ventilation wherever possible
• Recycle all waste
• Ensure that air conditioning equipment run only during occupied hours
• Monitor energy usage to use as evidence of improvement

A NINE STEP PROGRAMME FOR DEVELOPING CORPORATE ETHICS

A business’s approach to ethics depends on the tone set at the top management level. Here tone means the quality and style that characterize the organization’s behavior. Corporate Ethics of the company, through its employees, displays towards all of it stakeholders and manifest itself in how it conducts its business.

Following is a nine step program for developing corporate ethics.

• Find a champion
• Member of the board who is prepared to introduce the business ethics policy
• Identify core values
• Ensure your company has established the core values. If not you have to identify them
• Secure endorsement of the board
• Board must regularly review the operation of corporate ethics
• Find out what bothers people
• This is to identify issues on which employees need guidance.
• Pick a well-tested model
• Use a framework
• Produce a code of business ethics
• Try it out first
• Issue the code and make it known
• Make it work

Putting in a code of ethics support a business, because it’s an integral part of building a culture within an organization. By following the best practice and developing a code based on shared core values, it can become the glue that cements the company together.