This exclusive HR Summit presentation will highlight the increasingly important interface between HRM and CSR. It will demonstrate that good CSR strategies can supplement good HRM and have positive impacts on recruitment, retention and productivity. In particular, Dr Welford will highlight opportunities in the areas of employee volunteering linked to strategic community investment strategies that can increase employee morale and thus help to build your brand as well as the reputation of the business. It will also highlight the business case for a strategy on diversity and inclusion in an environment where top talent is still hard to find.

Richard Welford has twenty years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organisations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been increasingly Asian focused as a result of his current position as director of the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He has sat on the Swire Environmental Committee as an external adviser for the past four years and has undertaken consultancy work with a number of leading companies, including MTR Corporation, Disney, CLP, Nike, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, HP, HSBC, Citigroup and Adidas.