CSR in Context
Staying Ahead of the Curve: How Corporate Social Responsibility Can Help your Lab and your Bottom Line.
While I was studying for my master’s degree, I became fixated on the intricacies of Corporate Social Responsibility. In an attempt to merge my Master’s degree study with my employment domain, I often searched for the terms “Corporate Social Responsibility in Laboratories” and regardless of whether I was searching in scholarly databases or Google, I always came up empty handed. The lack of awareness of this important concept bothered me to my core.
I have seen countless labs during my career and observed their CSR practices. But I found it troublesome that the term was not more frequently discussed; the fact that it was not a topic of conversation suggested to me that many labs were not, in fact, following good CSR practices.
CSR is an ethics policy that is most often associated with large corporations and perhaps less within research and academic analytical laboratories. [ read more ]
Author:
Elyssa Litchfield, Informatics Consultant, CSols, Inc.
“In My Opinion” article from The Analytical Scientist
