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You can make your organization more sustainable by aligning HR with corporate social responsibility (CSR). Closing the gap between CSR rhetoric and practice requires consistent application of CSR’s ethical principles to internal people practices, as well as workplace values to the treatment of external stakeholders.

Electronics retailer Best Buy has implemented a results-focused work environment, raising interesting questions about how flexible work design can improve the quality of work life. But for this to work, managers need to trust employees to make decisions, and employees have to be prepared to take on more responsibility.

Some companies apply the principle of flexibility to more than just work arrangements. Moving in this direction is critical for employee quality of work life and business performance. These firms have crafted conditions for sustainable success by applying the principle of flexible work.

There is a growing gap in the worker health and safety protection system. These systems were products of an earlier industrial age and are unable to provide adequate protection to the growing number of workers in “non-standard” work arrangements — that is, who do not have a full-time, on-going employment relationship with a single employer.

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