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- Have you ever felt headache about the disharmony between managers and workers? A grievance system can be used to bring these two levels together.
- Accumulating discontent has just one result: management crisis. What can we do to prevent its accumulation and react in time?
- New Labor Contract Law, which pays great attention to protecting labors’ rights and interests, becomes effective now. With the labor disputes growing, it is vital to set up a grievance system.
- If you have already set up a “workers hotline”, is it brought into full play or just in name?
Peasant workers’ outflow always caught the factories on the wrong foot these years. Plant managers began to think over such questions as: How to stable the workers’ emotion and carry out human-based management. The highly active happens only when there is a stable and loyal group. How to promote employees’ content and belongingness? What shall we do to create an outlet for the workers’ displeasure? BSR, who aims to promote business for social responsibility, is searching the answers for a long time as well as the brands and suppliers.
Start Time:
2008 Apr 16 - Wed - 14:00
End Time:
2008 Apr 16 - Wed - 17:00
Venue:
Guangzhou
Cost:
RMB300/participant
Contents:
BSR will share our thoughts and on Factories’ Grievance System and facilitate the group to have participatory discussion:
- Why we need a factory grievance system and what we can do to promote its set up?
- Key components of building a successful worker grievance system or hotline
- Challenges we’ll face to set up a factory’s grievance system
- How to motivate workers’ participate and pleased to use it
- Worker hotline execution and remediation process
- Some worker hotline success anecdotes sharing
Target Audience:
- Buyer / Brand representatives, Compliance officers
- General Manager and Factory plant managers
- Factory personnel responsible for compliance action plan implementation
Trainer/Facilitator:
China Labor Support Network
An organization which provides labor and EHS information and assistance to support workers, aims to improve workers working condition, strengthen workers and management communication. Their have worked with several factories and successfully built their grievance system within factory
Language:
Mandarin
- Women workers have comprised at least half of the labor force in Chinese manufactures, especially in labor intense factories
- Employee’s health is closely interrelated with factory’s output
- There is a critical gap between the women workers’ health needs and their knowledge
- No enterprise can afford to neglect the harmful effect of women workers’ weak reproductive health problem
- HIV/AIDS is one of the most terrible threats the women workers face
While more and more women pour into the manufacturing and create great wealth, women staff’s significant place is getting obvious daily. In contrary to this, women workers often labor in environments where access to general and reproductive health information, as well as critical health services, is lacking.
Committing itself to creating a more just and sustainable global economy, BSR(Business for Social Responsibility) realized this problem and worked with David and Lucile Packard Foundation on factory-based women’s health programs named “HER” Project. Launching last year, “HER” is a peer awareness program aimed at learning current situation of women workers’ health and providing women’s general and reproductive health education and HIV/AIDS prevention training to women workers.
Now, we are pleased to share the achievement of “HER” project with you. Join us for a salon called “Women Workers’ Health”. Let’s show our concern to women workers and spread the health knowledge as much as possible.
Start Time:
2008 Mar 25 - Tue - 14:00
End Time:
2008 Mar 25 - Tue - 17:00
Venue:
Guangzhou
Cost:
RMB300/participant
Contents:
BSR will share the HER project achievement and facilitate the group to have participatory discussion:
- Why we care and what we can do to promote women’s health issue and HIV/AIDS protection
- Introduction of Peer Education method
- Survey conclusion and achievement of “HER Project”
- Key success and remain challenges
- Strong and compelling business case for this investment
Target Audience:
- Buyer / Brand representatives, Compliance officers
- General Manager and Factory plant managers
- Factory personnel responsible for compliance action plan implementation
Trainer/Facilitator:
Ms.Qu Ning
Prof Qu Ning, Director, Training Project on Migrant Women Workers in the Pearl River Delta at the Guangdong Women's Professional Technical College in Guangzhou, China.
Prof. Qu, who also holds a position at the Center for Women’s Studies, is an expert on women’s general and reproductive health in China and has worked extensively with a number of buyers, including Disney, Levi Strauss and Nike, as well as with The Asia Foundation and the Levi Strauss Foundation.
Language:
Mandarin
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A whole year’s work depends on a good start in spring. Maybe you have already made an annual program for your company. But do you need a scientific tool to ensure the plan’s successful implementation?
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Do you know that P&G leapt into the top brands line because of making an excellent plan with a scientific tool named OGSM, which stands for Objective, Goal, Strategy and Measurement?
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What kind of plan can help your company grow? Are you making plans for every month, product, and customer group? How is the performance? How much is the cost for achieving such performance? What kind of resources do you need for maintaining your growth?
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Have you ever been bothered by insufficient implementation of a plan? A good plan provides clear direction and facilitates its implementation.
Start Time:
2008 Mar 14 - Fri - 14:00
End Time:
2008 Mar 14 - Fri - 17:00
Venue:
Guangzhou
Cost:
RMB 400/person
Contents:
The course aims to help trainees increase their management skills through the discussions on the following topics:
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The importance of annual plan for achieving business target
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OGSM: An effective tool for making annual plan
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OGSM progress management: Master plan
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OGSM performance management: Score card
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Making annual plan using OGSM
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Improve plan execution using OGSM
Target Audience:
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Plant Manager
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General Manager
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Operation Manager or Supervisor
Trainer/Facilitator:
Mr. Zhou
Mr. Zhou is a senior consultant and full time trainer for BSR based in
Zhou is certified by the American Association for the Certificate of Training Program (AACTP) and has six years of corporate training experience, equating to 4,000 training hours and 6,000 participants. Zhou has served as a Production manager for several large domestic and multinational companies such the Coca-Cola (Dong Guan) Company, and Guang Zhou Mason Corporation. Zhou has facilitated training and consulting for companies including China Mobile, Coca-Cola, Siemens, Motorola, Epson Shi Da Electronics, Li Ning Sportswear and Jiangsu Hong Dou Co. Zhou’s training Skills has been highly recommended by participants for his practicality, problem solving ability and use of case studies.
Language:
Mandarin
Background: The current supplier compliance engagement process is fraught with both cost and risk to the supplier. The current system is based on a “cat and mouse” game that undermines trust between buyer and supplier, fails to manage CSR issues appropriately, leads to audit proliferation and places suppliers at the mercy of their buyers’ constantly changing needs.
CSR on the Offense project:
Encourage factories take ownership of their own performance, and commit to continuous improvements.
Start Time:
2008 Feb 26 - Tue - 9:00
Venue:
BSR Guangzhou Office, Room1013, West Building, Time Square, Tian He Bei Lu, Guangzhou, China
Cost:
RMB 300/participant
Contents:
Key Elements:
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External needs assessment: what does the customer want?
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Internal assessment: what is currently in place?
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Develop CSR strategy: what needs to be done?
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Brand meeting facilitation: communicating a plan to customers
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On-going continuous improvement execution
Target Audience:
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Suppliers CSR practitioners
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factory senior managers
Trainer/Facilitator:
Mr. Zhou
Mr. Zhou, as BSR China Director, led the China Training Institute (CTI) for nearly three year, which aims to improve Chinese suppliers’ labor and environment performance, and enhance their overall capacity. So far, CTI has provided more than 140 days of training for Chinese manufacturers in Garment, Footwear, Toys, and Electronic industry.
Mr. Zhou also provides CSR systems training to Chinese suppliers from many BSR member companies, e.g. HP, Ann Tay
Language:
Mandarin
CTI invites you to participate in a one year HR Salon aimed at providing a platform for HR managers to discuss problems and solutions, share information and good practice and make improvements in their HR management skills. This cost-effective approach is designed to help suppliers realize the importance of human resources management through empowered, knowledgeable HR managers.
Start Time:
2007 Dec 08 - Sat - 14:00
End Time:
2007 Dec 08 - Sat - 17:00
Venue:
Rm 1013, West Tower, Times Square, 28 Tian He Bei Rd., Guangzhou, China
Cost:
RMB 200/person
Contents:
- Factory HR managers are invited to attend four quarterly half-day HR salons
- Salon sessions will be a mix of prepared presentations on major HR issues related to CSR, followed by open and highly participatory discussion.
Sessions will cover the following topics:
| June 23, 2007 | Psychology and Harmonious Working Environment |
| September 15, 2007 | New Labor Contract Law |
| December 8, 2007 | Working Hours and Wages |
| March 15, 2008 | Labor Conflict March 15, 2008 Management |
Target Audience:
The sessions are designed for factory HR managers with responsibilities that align with CSR issues.
Trainer/Facilitator:
- 10 years HR management experience in one of China’s largest electronics manufacturers
- Provides corporate legal counsel on: worker conflicts, employment challenges, labor law, and policy revisions
- Previously a practicing lawyer
- Conducts CTI trainings on “Labor relations and Worker conflicts”
Language:
Mandarin
This Salon is for Brand Companies only.
After the successful launch of the first Auditor Salon Meeting, we will now be holding a quarterly CSR auditor's gathering commencing in October, 2007.
During this first meeting, participants from both brands and suppliers agreed that CSR practices have improved immensly over the past 10 years and will continue to improve in the future. Therefore, as the CSR field continues to evolve, so too does the requirement for more professional and well-trained CSR practitioners.
Based on feedback from the first Auditor Salon Meeting, the following subjects will be the key focus of The Good Auditor Salon:
- The professionalization of the auditor
- Building dialogue between stakeholders
- Building trust between brands and suppliers
Objective:
- Build a local network of CSR practitioners
- Discuss common challenges, map out and develop resources for improvement
Start Time:
2007 Oct 12 - Fri - 14:30
End Time:
2007 Oct 12 - Fri - 17:00
Venue:
28 Tianhei Bei Road, Office 1013, West BuildingTimes Square, Guangzhou, China
Cost:
RMB 300 /person/time or RMB 1,000/person/4 times
Contents:
The Good Auditor Salon will examine a variety of related topics such as, Ethics, Knowledge & Skills, Factory/Industry Practices and Incentives related to CSR auditing and CSR auditors.
The learning objectives will include:
- Practices of other professional organizations
- Guidance and learning from governmental and international organizations and institutions
- Sharing and learning from world leading companies
Target Audience:
Brand CSR Auditors and Compliance leaders.
Trainer/Facilitator:
- BSR staff
- Guest speakers from brand CSR compliance leaders
- Guest speakers from other stakeholders Target
Language:
Mandarin
CTI invites you to participate in a one year HR Salon aimed at providing a platform for HR managers to discuss problems and solutions, share information and good practice and make improvements in their HR management skills. This cost-effective approach is designed to help suppliers realize the importance of human resources management through empowered, knowledgeable HR managers.
Start Time:
2007 Sep 15 - Sat - 14:00
End Time:
2007 Sep 15 - Sat - 17:00
Venue:
RM1013 West Tower, 28 Tian He Bei Road, Times Square, Guangzhou, China
Cost:
RMB 200/person/session
Contents:
- Factory HR managers are invited to attend four quarterly half-day HR salons
- Salon sessions will be a mix of prepared presentations on major HR issues related to CSR, followed by open and highly participatory discussion.
Sessions will cover the following topics:
| June 23, 2007 | Psychology and Harmonious Working Environment |
| September 15, 2007 | New Labor Contract Law |
| December 8, 2007 | Working Hours and Wages |
| March 15, 2008 | Labor Conflict March 15, 2008 Management |
Target Audience:
The sessions are designed for factory HR managers with responsibilities that align with CSR issues.
Trainer/Facilitator:
- 10 years HR management experience in one of China’s largest electronics manufacturers
- Provides corporate legal counsel on: worker conflicts, employment challenges, labor law, and policy revisions
- Previously a practicing lawyer
- Conducts CTI trainings on “Labor relations and Worker conflicts”
Language:
Mandarin
Other Information:
Seats are limited to 20 participants.