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Part C: Overview of the Social Aspects of Business Risks

By Adam Rose
From Business Risk Management Handbook: A Sustainable Approach

Chapter List

Chapter 12 Social and Ethical Risk Overview;
Chapter 13 How to Identify Someone s Style
Chapter 14 Human Rights and Resource Issues Inside the Workplace
Chapter 15 Human Rights Outside the Workplace
Chapter 16 Health and Safety in the Workplace
Chapter 17 Health and Safety of Customers and Product Liabilities

Social risks are as varied as the communities and cultural groupings from which they emanate. We use a SERM system to estimate that 5.1% of market value is at risk from these types of internal and external issues including:

  • Social and ethical risk overview (Chapter 12);

  • Cultural risk management (Chapter 13);

  • Human rights and...

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