The Social Licence to Operate: Your Management Framework for Complex Times (DoShorts) - Softcover

Black, Leeora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909293725 ISBN 13: 9781909293724

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

The "social licence to operate" began as a metaphor to bring attention to the need for companies to earn acceptance from their host communities. Today, it is a necessary management framework for complex times.A social licence strategy is essentially a stakeholder engagement strategy for navigating complex socio-political environments. This book provides the framework, tools and case studies a company needs to create a foundation for truly sustainable community development.This 90-minute guide will enable you to: define the social licence to operate; make the business case for actively managing your social licence to operate; measure the social licence to operate; develop a step-by-step plan to restore, build, maintain and enhance your company’s social licence; and report on your social licence.This book is for managers in any company facing rising social scrutiny due to unwanted social or environmental impacts. You may be working in natural resources, renewable energy, oil and gas, forestry, construction, manufacturing, retail, food processing, pharmaceuticals or any industry that is facing rising stakeholder expectations and increasing criticism.

About this title

Book Description:

A social license strategy is essentially a stakeholder engagement strategy for navigating complex socio-political environments. This DoShort provides the framework, tools and case studies a company needs to create a foundation for truly sustainable community development. It is for managers in any company facing rising social scrutiny due to unwanted social or environmental impacts.

About the Author:

Leeora Black is Managing Director of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, a specialist management consulting and training firm based in Melbourne, Australia. After a career in corporate communications and consulting, she completed a doctorate in corporate social responsibility at Monash University. She is a globally recognized authority on social responsibility, stakeholder engagement and the social license to operate, advising global companies, government-owned corporations and civic sector organizations on how to develop collaborative relationships that contribute to sustainable community development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1909293725
• ISBN 13: 9781909293724
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 95