SOCIAL REPORTING BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE (ADVANCED)

 

BUSINESS VOCABULARY IN USE (ADVANCED) 42. SOCIAL REPORTING

 

A Social performance audits Businesses are increasingly aware of the importance of social and environmental issues for their reputation. Some are commissioning social audits relating to their social performance; these evaluate the effect of their behaviour in relation to their employees and to society as whole: B Word combinations with ‘social’ C Labour standards Giovanni Preston is in charge of social responsibility issues at Rancher Jeans, a Canadian multinational: ‘A lot of our manufacturing is done by suppliers in developing countries. Companies in the clothing industry are particularly open to criticisms about sweatshop labour – the use of underpaid people with terrible working conditions, which amounts to labour abuse or labour exploitation. EXERCISES 42.1 Complete the sentences with correct forms of expressions from A opposite. 1. The management has to be aware of its wider responsibilities to the community, not just employees and shareholders, when presenting new proposals. This is sometimes called __________ __________. 2. There is a risk that companies in industries that are more renowned for polluting and exploiting than caring and sharing could adopt _________ _________ and use it to highlight their more ethical activities, purely as a _________ _________ _________. 42.2 Match the two parts of these sentences containing expressions from A and B opposite. 1 Brazilian society is maturing and adopting a model of economic development that balances economic growth, social a welfare system in place to 2 At present the country has only a rudimentary social b justice and the sustainable use of natural resources. 42.3 Giovanni Preston from C opposite continues to talk about his work. Complete his statements with expressions from C opposite. 1 I know that one of our competitors exploits poorly-paid people working in very hot and crowded run-down buildings. They use …… 2 The don’t pay attention to keeping the factory clean or well-ventilated and clearly don’t care about their employees’ …

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