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SUMMARY:CIHRM Seminar - ‘New Directions in Managing Corporate Social Res
 ponsibility’ - Susan Schneider - University of Geneva
DTSTART:20101018T110000Z
DTEND:20101018T150000Z
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CONTACT:Ella Hewitt
DESCRIPTION:Susan C. Schneider is Professor of Human Resource Management a
 t HEC University of Geneva\, Switzerland\, and Visiting Professor of Organ
 isational Behaviour at INSEAD\, France. Professor Schneider's research int
 erests include cross-cultural management\, and the impact of cognitive sci
 ences on corporate strategy formulation. In addition to her research\, she
  has actively worked to internationalize the 'mindsets' of managers and co
 mpanies worldwide. Professor Schneider has published a book (written with 
 Jean Louis Barsoux) entitled Managing across Cultures\, which is a seminal
  work in the development of international HRM.\n\nHer theme in the seminar
  will be that of corporate social responsibility\, and specifically the wo
 rk of the RESPONSE project\, the first attempt to study systematically CSR
  as both an organizational practice and an individual behaviour.\n\nThe RE
 SPONSE project is a collaboration between a number of leading business sch
 ools\, 21 European and North American multinationals active in eight diffe
 rent industries\, and more than 100 of their stakeholders. The project aim
 s to move beyond explanations based on the industry and the cultural envir
 onment in which the company acts\, to inquire about the impact of organiza
 tional and individual characteristics on the managers' ability to understa
 nd stakeholders’ expectations. Organizational characteristics such as th
 e firm's strategy\, its organizational structure (including its governance
 )\, its knowledge and learning management processes\, for example\, are im
 portant pieces of the puzzle. At an individual level\, the project seeks t
 o understand how personal values\, emotional traits and cognitive reasonin
 g can explain the manager's perception of its company's social responsibil
 ity as well as the willingness and ability to integrate this understanding
  in the day-to-day decisions and actions.\n
LOCATION:Howard Theatre - Downing College
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