I was just asked to contribute to a textbook; which humbles me, but also excites me. The nature of the text is on Corporate Responsibility; and it needs to be “translated” from a domestic to a global audience.
So, as far as my full plate goes, it now overflows. As for the blog, it has swung back and forth between the pulse of what I find among the topic areas I stay studied in as well as the dissertation I’m working on … will now have a sprinkling of this topic (which is still in the wheelhouse: see Global Business).
Right off the bat let me bring to your attention the work of a pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Philly; Rev. Leon H. Sullivan. As he sought to contribute to the dismantling of apartheid, he created in 1977 the Global Sullivan Principles (found under the Sullivan reference below). Succinctly spelled out are eight fundamental ideals by which employment equity and dignity, including the larger consideration of human rights.
Please know (if you do not already), that for all the faults we are regularly reminded the US has, we are nonetheless among the most advanced when it comes to equal employment opportunity and safe workplaces. Our architecture for these considerations is robust. There are places on the planet that working in a factory at the age of eight is a good thing!
Please check out those eight principals. Another organization Rev. Sullivan created (he was brilliant and prolific), IFESH, carry’s on the GSP work today.
IFESH. (2009). International Foundation for Education & Self-Help.
Retrieved from http://www.ifesh.org/index.php
Sullivan, L. H. (1977). the Global Sullivan Principles (GSP). Retrieved from
http://www.globalsullivanprinciples.org/principles.htm
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