CSR - Just Do it
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Hello everyone.
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My name is Austin Hackett and today we will
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be talking a little bit about corporate social responsibility.
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So what is CSR
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um CSR is the idea that businesses have a responsibility to
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society um in order to benefit them in a positive way.
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Um this commonly relates to, you know,
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environmental social corporate governance and even economic issues.
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Um so for this, just do an assignment.
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You know, CSR really is all about taking action.
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And so what I wanted to do is kind of look at
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my company internally and kind of see what our current dilemmas are.
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And I saw two big things for my own company and how it could relate to CSR.
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One of those being,
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we have constant staffing shortages due to employee turnover
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and a bunch of contracts that we've recently won
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and we also have a large lack of company diversity.
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Um you know,
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throughout the course we've talked about um
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diversity being really important for an organization and
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how it can actually benefit by having the
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company having more ideas and more innovation.
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And so in Livingston's article How to promote racial equity in the workplace,
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he kind of talks about the three CS.
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Um first understanding that your company has a diversity condition
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to um having people in the organization that are concerned enough about it
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that they're going to take action and then the last one being correction,
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you know, what are we going to implement in order to create a solution?
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Um so
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luckily I had an opportunity for my company.
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Um we're currently hiring engineers, environmental engineering interns,
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project managers and environmental scientists.
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Um And so that kind of gave me the possibility to implement a solution.
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Um because we're hiring,
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I went ahead and worked with the Sacramental LGBT Community Center,
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who I commonly worked with
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on other social issues.
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Um but this allowed me to work with them
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and through their job boards which really target um
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you know, LGBT people of
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minorities, people of color,
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um allowed them to post our job opportunity for
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our um internship position on their job boards.
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Um And the hope of this is getting more applicants um that might not have
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the access to these types of internships
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and really getting them engaged and interested in
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um the environmental industry, which doesn't have that much diversity
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and hopefully getting someone hired that
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um is going to help increase our diversity
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and increase our firm's ability for innovation.
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No,
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so looking forward to completing the hiring
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process within the next couple of weeks,
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um and getting more engagement from people to um kind of tackle our diversity issue