Role of HR in sustainable development of the company

HR professionals from leading companies in Ukraine met this week to discuss first chapter of the guide "Role HR in the sustainable development of the company". The project is implemented by the Centre for CSR Development under support of the JTI copany. This is a unique initiative in Ukraine because of different reasons:
1. first time CSR Centre raised the issue of the role of HR department in CSR;
2. first time we united companies-leaders for developing guide for other companies;
3. first time we united HR-directors.
The meeting was devoted to developing mission, vision and values of the company, engaging employees in this process and communicating them to employess. The questions which really heated discussions were:
- do we need to engage all employees in developing of company values, mision and vision?
- have corporate values something to do with personal values of an individual?
- is there  a big gap between new Ukrainian companires in Ukraine and old big enterprises from Soviet time?
- what profile of readers will be of this guide?
Updates of the process you could see at this web-site later. We are planning to finalize the Guide by December, but in the meatime 3 other meetings are planned.
More about CSR Centre - http://www.csr-ukraine.org/
More about JTI - http://www.jti.com.ua/
Survey about partnership practices between CSR and HR - http://www.csr-ukraine.org/userfiles/file/GUIDE_2.pdf