The purpose of the ISO 26000 standard is to guide organisations in taking charge of their corporate social responsibility.
It is an international standard that provides a framework for corporate social responsibility, to identify and discuss with the stakeholders and add credibility to communication about corporate social responsibility. Legrand's CSR approach, via the materiality matrix, is structured around seven key questions in the ISO26000 standard.
To help organisations contribute to sustainable development, the ISO 26000 standard describes two fundamental corporate social responsibility practices. On the one hand, the identification of the impact of the organisation's decisions and activities with regard to the key questions in ISO 26000. And on the other hand, the identification of stakeholders, and dialogue with them.
Based on these two practices, the standard addresses seven key questions related to the corporate social responsibility of organisations. These seven questions cover:
ISO 26000 gives companies and organisations guidelines for socially responsible operations. This means behaving in an ethical and transparent way in order to contribute to the health and well-being of society.
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