Three philosophies, one supply chain principle. Short unit, and both halves are pure list recognition plus one judgment call.
The CSR organizational philosophies and policies
The BASK names development, integration and shared value.
- Shared value is the one that pairs community benefit with business benefit. When a CEO wants community work that addresses a community need and strengthens the business at the same time, that is shared value, not development and not integration.
- The other list names that get offered here belong elsewhere: ethnocentric, polycentric and geocentric are staffing orientations; avoidance, reduction and retention are risk treatments; descriptive, predictive and prescriptive are analytics categories.
Supply chain is HR's business
The BASK lists human rights, labor standards and supply chain management among HR activities supporting sustainability. That places supplier labor practices squarely inside HR's CSR role, including at tier two.
The keyed reasoning on a supplier concern
A tier-two supplier may be using underage workers, and procurement says supplier labor practices are outside HR's remit. Treat labor standards and supply chain management as HR sustainability activities and act on the concern.
- Accepting that procurement owns supplier relationships and monitoring from a distance defers a responsibility the BASK gives HR.
- Waiting for an external audit delays action on a potential child labour issue.
- Adding a clause to future contracts fixes the next supplier while leaving the current exposure in place.
The pattern: act on the exposure that exists now, and do not let another function's ownership of the relationship decide who owns the labor standard.
Carry this in
Shared value is community benefit plus business benefit. Retention is a risk treatment and never a CSR philosophy.