Purpose delivered : bigger benefits for society and bigger profits for business : a CEO's experience /: bigger benefits for society and bigger profits for business : a CEO's experience. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan Barlow.
• Authors: Barlow, Alan, 1947 December 28
• Contents: 1. THE CHALLENGE: Responding to the increasing disconnect between business and society; 2. THE 'WHY'? : The need to redefine the nature and purpose of a company; 3. THE 'WHAT '?: A paradigm shift from the primacy of shareholder value to the primacy of purpose; 4. THE 'HOW '?: Implement the 'Heightened Integrity Model'; - Governance, delivery, and performance; - Heightened integrity: the hub of the model; - The business model; 5. DEMONSTRATION: Application of the model to the case study multinational corporation; - The case study corporation; - The business model; Enabling processes:; Purpose; Stakeholders; Integrity /compliance; Delivery processes:; Leadership; Staff; Feedback; 6. VERIFICATION: Successful benchmarking of the model against third party best practice:; - Purpose: Behavioural principles:; Being a responsible and responsive employer; Being honest and fair with customers and suppliers; Being a guardian for future generations; Being a good citizen; - Purpose: Great place to work; - Purpose: Measurable business payoffs; - Wider applicability of the model; 7. DELIVERED: Bigger benefits for society and bigger profits for business; 8. RECONNECTING: A growing range of programmes and legislation for reconnecting business with society:; - Believer companies; - Believer proclaimers; - Believer investors; - Purpose-based legislation; - Third party assessment and ranking; 9. RESOLUTION: For society, and for a company; Appendix: The Group's business model
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 658.42; Leadership; Executive ability; Success in business; Social responsibility of business
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000388831; 9781000388800; 9781003163978
• Related ISBNs: 9780367757823; 9780367757816
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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