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A
one day post-conference workshop facilitated by Professor
Alyson Warhurst of Warwick Business School's Corporate
Citizenship Unit
Successful management of human rights risk contributes
to the reputation and brand of companies. However, although an understanding
of why and how human rights is relevant to your business is fundamental,
it is seldom sufficient in itself to instil a human rights protection
culture across your global operations.
Increasingly customers are asking companies to
show evidence of their commitment to human rights, as well as evidence
of its implementation. A successful process of developing policy,
objectives and targets, performance monitoring, reporting and of
creating a strong supportive human rights culture is multi-faceted
and complex.
This practical workshop is designed to, through
a human rights monitoring system approach and risk assessment tools,
help you evaluate your company’s commitment to protect human
rights within your operations and to report on progress in implementing
those commitments. This workshop will also identify common obstacles
for implementing policy, the issues and concerns amongst stakeholders
and tips for overcoming these hurdles, through creating a productive
stakeholder dialogue.
Who should attend
Managers, executives, practitioners, audit trainers,
auditors, those responsible for developing or implementing company
codes of practice and principles
Benefits for workshop participants
This full-day workshop will provide practical tools and techniques
that can help participants to:
- Understand international and national laws, standards and codes
- Manage differences between the international, corporate and national
contexts
- Understand stakeholder issues and interests in respect of human
rights
- Build and sell the human rights business case to key stakeholders
- Anticipate common pitfalls of human rights management systems
and techniques to avoid them
- Evaluate and develop management systems and audit programmes
- Manage a risk assessment through audits and gap analysis
- Review identified gaps with stakeholders and understand the causes
- Develop human rights corrective action plans
- Develop a human rights protection culture and monitoring system
- Review case studies of best practice and lessons learnt from poor
practice
Key features of the workshop
This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to evaluate
or develop your company human rights management system through case
studies and interactive discussion groups. The workshop will help
you to:
- Understand key stakeholder issues and interests and build strong
partnerships
- Anticipate common pitfalls to management systems and the implementation
process and learn techniques to resolve them
- Develop a human rights protection culture and monitoring system
About Professor Alyson Warhurst
Professor of Strategy and International Development at Warwick Business
School (UK), one of the leading European business schools, where
she directs the Corporate Citizenship Unit and the Mining and Energy
Research Network, which she established in 1991. Professor Warhurst
has been contributing to the area of business in society for 25
years and was one of the youngest women in the UK to be appointed
to a Chair in a leading University in 1996. Professor Warhurst has
an established academic reputation in research at the public policy/corporate
strategy interface, and has lectured widely and published several
books and numerous articles. She has a BSc (Hons.) in Earth Sciences
and an MSc & PhD in Science, Technology and Industrialisation
from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of
Sussex.
She has worked extensively in Latin America, Asia and Africa. In
2003 she was awarded the prestigious inaugural European Faculty
Pioneer award for her impact on business in society. Professor Warhurst
is also a World Economic Forum Fellow and advises some of the Forum’s
Initiatives in the area of Corporate Citizenship. Professor Warhurst
is also a Director of the fast-growing boutique advisory company
Maplecroft, which advises global business on responsibilities and
risks and undertakes research, coaching, training and audit in the
field of business in society.
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