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The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has teamed up with TM Evolution, a compensation and work life people analytics company, to create a practical way for almost any size organization to analyze the impact of investments in all stakeholders consistent with the new European Union Corporate Sustainability Directive. Click here to view the demo or scroll down ... [ read more ]

A look at the history of the anti-ESG (environmental, social, governance) firestorm suggests a lot of it was the legitimate response to corporate greenwashing encouraged by corporate communications firms that failed to anticipate the backlash and the inevitable rabbit hole that opened after CEOs started speaking out on politics, social, and religious issues. Here’s an overview of what happened and how the damage is getting repaired.... [ read more ]

This article explains the concept and state of strategic human resources in business today. ... [ read more ]

An academic review of over 90 academic studies over 20 years finds no support for the definition of stakeholder capitalism used by right-wing proponents. It provides strong evidence that the definitions used to oppose stakeholder capitalism were based on fabricated definitions after the Business Roundtable 2019 pronouncement supporting stakeholder capitalism principles. ... [ read more ]

An Enterprise Engagement Alliance council will focus on oversight of effective practices content and impact metrics of engagement processes. ... [ read more ]

Financial issues are not the only drivers of American views of business, according to this recent survey. ... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance is strictly non-partisan but does cover politics when it affects the stakeholder capitalism movement. An ardent proponent of stakeholder capitalism principles believes embracing them could be a decisive win for Republicans. ... [ read more ]

A growing body of research demonstrates the potential alpha created by having highly engaged stakeholders can have a positive impact on financial results. ... [ read more ]

How to use proven total quality management practices to enhance external and internal customer satisfaction while encouraging continuous efforts to enhance efficiency, lower costs, and enhance cash flow through faster cycle times.... [ read more ]

This recent article in Institutional Investor argues that human capital factors can trump managed investing when it comes to generating consistently better portfolio returns. ... [ read more ]

Launched as a single natural foods store in Austin TX, it grew into a publicly owned national chain based on the principles of stakeholder capitalism before its sale to Amazon in 2017.... [ read more ]

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To help organizations measure the value created by their incentive, reward, recognition, motivational event and other human capital efforts and to publish audited corporate sustainability reports, an 11-year-old talent management, human capital analytics and technology company will combine its expertise in compensation, human capital technology, and value creation with the first center dedicated to promoting the use of ISO human capital standards in organizational management. ... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance continues its series of YouTube shows and feature articles with veteran practitioners and educators on all aspects of engagement. All the shows are produced live, summarized in ESM or RRN feature articles and archived in the ESM library of stakeholder capitalism and enterprise engagement resources.... [ read more ]

A survey of 125 corporate sustainability, environmental, social and governance executives at leading companies reaffirms the Enterprise Engagement Alliance’s original focus on value creation rather than virtue-signaling. ... [ read more ]

As frequently reported in ESM, the concepts of stakeholder management go back decades not to social activitists but to management consultants. People like W. Edwards Deming sought a more sustainable path to value creation than the purely shareholder-focused approach that sanctions enhancing profits by extracting value from stakeholders and the environment by producing poor quality products in a wasteful manner. ... [ read more ]

A comprehensive process used by Axios and Harris poll identifying the 100 companies with the best reputations with US consumers suggests a potential link with employee satisfaction and share price performance as well. ... [ read more ]

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This survey of 170 human capital executives and 538 employees looks at the many political, social, and regulatory issues facing business today and what they are doing about it. ... [ read more ]

There remains no evidence that shareholders are backing proxy efforts to curtail DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or stakeholder management efforts, despite the willingness of leading companies to back away from public efforts when seeking to do business with the US government. Shareholders are also showing less interest in pro-DEI proxy efforts, according to reports.... [ read more ]

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Commentators from across the political spectrum continue to write about stakeholder capitalism both pro and con, without ever referring to a clear definition. The result, a wide range of opinions based on two different definitions. ... [ read more ]

The producers of a new employee engagement analytics tool say it is specifically designed to identify people related mergers and acquisitions risks. ... [ read more ]