Social responsibility is a Baldrige core value because it is a characteristic of high-performing organizations. According to a study by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, more organizations are establishing corporate citizenship management policies and practices to ensure citizenship is integrated into their core business. The study concludes: “Increasingly, customers, employees, business partners, and government demand that corporations take an active role in social, environmental, and community concerns. That’s why strategic corporate citizenship is more than good business—it’s a business essential.”

If business ethics and corporate social responsibility have not been priorities at your organization and you want to change that, where do you start? The Hill Center for Ethical Business Leadership can show you the way.

The Hill Center is part of the James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, Minnesota. It works with leaders who want to take their organizations beyond ethical compliance to align ethics with business performance. To that end, it created the eInsight Ethics Quiz.

The quiz takes about 20 minutes to complete. There are no right or wrong answers. Final scores are compared against industry peers and action steps are provided to improve performance.

Leaders looking for ideas on how to build a culture of business ethics and corporate social responsibility will find guidance in the feedback to their survey. And it’s free! Click here to take the quiz. Click here to learn more about how the resources the Hill Center offers.

To read more about corporate social responsibility, click on these articles:

• New Guidelines for Social Responsibility
• Supporting Your Communities
• Purpose-Inspired Growth
• Corporate Social Responsibility

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