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"Most practitioners and decision makers look at corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a socially responsible management practice on top of what company leaders generally do: focus on the sustainable, long term financial profitability of their corporation. This book focuses on a political understanding of CSR: the author bridges politics with corporate social responsibility and in a creative and provocative manner. Braun seeks to explore why and how corporations are to be seen as political actors with important roles in our current societies."--

Soft skills development workshops can serve multinational organizations towards theimprovement of internal communication between employees of various language backgroundsattempting to collaborate on tasks and issues in performing their daily activities. Employer andmanagement expectations of these workshops may not be consistent with those of employeesand this gap can lead to employee pushback and even refusal to internalise and utilise theenvisioned workshop key learning points that management wants them to develop. On the basesof years of professional experience as co-trainers holding soft skills development workshops andreceiving employer and employee feedback on their work at dozens of multinational companiesin Europe, the authors discuss critical milestones which must be met by management, in order tolay the groundwork for more successful soft skills workshops at their organisations.