Try wearing dress trousers with knee-hi hosiery, or select a dress or skirt which, when worn with hosiery will be cooler than a pantsuit.
Select lighter-colored fabrics like eggshell, camel, tan, taupe or light grey. Lighter colors will not absorb the heat like dark colors.
- For dress trousers, select a linen-blend, which looks fashionable and stylish. A more business casual dress code may allow you to wear khakis.
- In the summer months, feel free to wear lighter-toned shoes like camel, tan or brown with more earth-toned colored suits or dress trousers.
When you dress in a corporate environment there is a fine line between dressing professionally, and dressing too casually during the summer months.
Dressing Cool in a Corporate World
This process has conferred new rights and created new business opportunities for global corporations and large national companies, while also exposing weaknesses in national and global governance structures. What is corporate citizenship?
Corporate citizenship invites companies to make strategic choices based on an understanding of the total impacts of their business in society. The practice of corporate citizenship involves a
What drives Corporate Citizenship in a Global Context?
The emergence of ‘corporate citizenship’as a guiding principle for business strategy has been driven by a number of changes in the business operating environment. The result is that the corporate
Globalization is not an entirely ‘neutral’ driver of corporate citizenship from a business perspective. Encouragement of global corporate responsibility then becomes part of efforts to put ‘a human face on the global economy’.
Commitments to Corporate Citizenship
There are numerous examples of commitments towards corporate citizenship. Today the Global Compact brings together several hundred companies, with some of the world’s leading trade union bodies, human rights and environmental organizations in a global learning forum, policy dialogues and variety of development projects.
v Tackling global health issues: The World Economic Forum Global Health Initiative (GHI) is designed to foster greater private sector engagement in the global battle against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. In cooperation with the World Health Organization and UNAIDS, the GHI brings together businesses, NGOs, civil society and academic institutions in a partnership, focusing on corporate best practices, resource gaps, partnership opportunities, philanthropy and the role of business in advocacy. The Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS is an international group of business leaders dedicated to advocating for an increased business response to AIDS both in the workplace and in the community. The International Chamber of Commerce and World Business Council for Sustainable Development have established Business Action for Sustainable Development as a network and platform to provide business input and partnership examples to the World Summit for Sustainable Development in 2002.
v Promoting good corporate governance: Business leaders are playing a role in several initiatives to promote good corporate governance. Examples include: The International Corporate Governance Network, pension funds and financial institutions with over $8 trillion in assets under management working towards global convergence on standards of governance; and business support for Transparency International to tackle corruption. Other examples include the E7 network of electricity companies; the International Hotels Environment Initiative; and the Global Mining Initiative.
Examples include: Philippine Business for Social Progress; the National Business Initiative in South Africa Instituto Ethos in Brazil Business in the Community in the UK and Landcare in Australia.
v Engaging Tomorrow’s Leaders: Today’s business leaders are supporting networks such as the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow, which consists of young leaders from the public and private sectors and civil society, and AIESEC, the world’s largest student-run organization to promote sustainable development and corporate citizenship. 5. Progress of Corporate Citizenship in a Global Context
Business leaders in each region are obviously influenced by different economic, social, cultural and political traditions, and different industry sectors face different types of corporate citizenship challenges. Despite these differences, the following trends in the concepts of corporate citizenship or corporate responsibility are common across geographic and sector boundaries:
In leading companies, corporate citizenship is moving beyond the boundaries of legal compliance and traditional philanthropy to become a more central factor in determining corporate success and legitimacy, with implications for corporate strategy, governance and risk management.
It is about how the company operates in three key spheres of corporate influence.
- Second, in its community investment and philanthropic activities.
- Third, in its engagement in public policy dialogue, advocacy and institution building.
In all three spheres of corporate influence, the challenge for leadership companies is two fold:-
Examples include, ICT companies supporting community projects to tackle the digital divide, financial companies supporting microcredit initiatives, and professional services firms sharing management expertise with local community organizations.
A taskforce of the World Economic Forum, consisting of a group of over 40 CEOs and chairmen from 16 countries and representing 18 industry sectors signed a joint statement on global corporate citizenship.
A number of global voluntary efforts are underway to develop standards, guidelines and procedures for measuring and reporting on corporate social and environmental performance. Growing numbers of Asian companies are engaging in these and other accountability initiatives.
National examples in Asia include the pioneering Philippines Business for Social Progress, the Thai Business Initiative for Rural Development and the Asia-Pacific Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDs.
In addition to community-level alliances between individual companies and nonprofit organizations, we are also witnessing the emergence of strategic global or national alliances aimed at transforming not only individual corporate practices, but also influencing public policy frameworks and the broader enabling environment.
Through the power of collective action, the Global Compact seeks to advance responsible corporate citizenship so that business can be part of the solution to the challenges of globalization.
Asian companies have been among the pioneers in supporting the Global Compact. It requires companies to have risk management systems and accountability structures in place to protect existing value, by minimizing any negative economic, social or environmental impacts and reputation damage arising from their business operations.
In summary, regardless of industry sector or country, global corporate citizenship rests on four pillars: values; value protection; value creation; and evaluation.
February 3rd, 2012 
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