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Nigel DuPree
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CSR like Charity starts at home with 'Positive Regard' for your own employees who need some contact time with their own children first before spending quality time with someone elses whilst working in the community.
Workplace culture does not function in isolation from the common work/life stressors or pressures felt in the surrounding community. Competition both Corporate and personal performance has morphed into crushing the opposition rather than nuturing everyone to "be the best they can be".
Which simply means in a 'text based display screen driven world' access to text has become the new class structure where the digitally literate succeed and the others arte dismissed as undesirable of no value pond life.
Little wonder the AIB (Association of British Insureers) is trying to set up a hedge fund with government to cover the risk of unknown health hazards associated with workplace lighting, display screens and use of mobile phonesthat may prove over the next thirty years to be the new asbestos.
In the mean time stressors manifested in "Performance Anxiety" let alone eye and headachesexperienced by up to 58% of DSE (Display Screen Equipment- HSE rr561 2007) operators is being mirrored in our school communities where up to 28% of children have limited access to text and poor digital literacy.
Therefore not rocket science to predict around 1 in 4 employees using DSE are potentially not going to be performing to the best of their ability and as a 'foreseeable' risk it's about time 'reasonably practicable' mitigative steps were taken before the ABI is proved right with all the associated costs.
Since introducing a VRA (Visual Risk Assessment) and mitigative approach we have not had any reported symptoms of Screen Fatigue and digital literacy and/or productivity of DSE operatorshas improved by 19.2%.
It's too early to say how much of this improvement is related to 'Positive Regard' and reduction in 'perfromance anxiety' however we are embarking a project with HEI partnersto research this subject.
CSR in terms of being more parental looks like providing health dividends.
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Rosemary King
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It is one part of our companies Mission Startement, written back in the early 1960's when such things were uncommon :
"To maintain good citizenship as a company."
All parts of the company across the world offer support, finance and personal volunteering as part of this citizenship.
In the UK we have raised thousands of pounds for juvenlie diabetes research, the deaf, local charities and have painted schools and helped with local area fund raising events with other local companies. We have had egg and spoon races, curry quizzes, cake sales and auctions.
We actively encourage staff and allow them time off each year to volunteer. We work with the local council as well as national volunteering bodies using their resources and lists to identify areas where we can help.
We are rightly proud of our volunteers and our suppliers who we frequently "hit" for product donations, in the last few months we have raised over £7500 for various charities and groups
We celebrate our volunteers succes and endorse there efforts, both nationally and internationally. It is hard work but it is also hugely rewarding.
Go on ...., you should try it
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Nigel DuPree
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Dear Rosemary, you should be congratulated on turning the ethos of your companies mission statement into an occupationally therpeutic reality for your employees however, in the UK where up to 70% of employees experience of mission statements and/or corporate policies is little more than tokenistic with poor interpersonal relationship management skills their work life environment has little "community spirit" and many feel just like 'Human Resources'.
My comment therefore was supportive of engagement promoting positive regard for all as 'approval deprivation' and perfromance anxiety is reaching critical mass in UK workplace (50+%) where 'justice' in terms of relationship management and duty of care fostering planned maintenance of Human Resources through pastoral and health care is at a premium regardless of ever increasing Health & Safety, Disability or descrimination regulation or legislation designed to reduce friendly fire of omission to actually care.
Our 'fit4life' Campaign (Visual Risk Assessment for DSE operators) started with those children at risk of exclusion, excluded and/or offending (8 to 18 years old NEET's {Not in Education, Employment or Training}) who were found to have one common denominator ' functional illiteracy ' that excluded them from 'access to text' in a text based educational system that had failed to identify their visual deficites preventing them from participation along side their more enabled peers.
Without remedial or mitigative action there are few of these children who as adults go on ro achieve there potential and are destined to the debilitating life-long insidious affects of approval deprivation and ' performance anxiety '.
KPMG Foundation (UK) have completed a socio-economic cost analysis of functional illiteracy the results of which are alarming in terms of Collateral Damage to UK Human Resources and we are fostering a "needs" rather than 'wants driven' tick-box outcomes to evaluating impact and being more person centred and/or solution focused.
Together we may make a difference to the quality of relationships in all our work/life experiences as a model for the future today.
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