Events for ETI Members - Advance Flyer
ETI Members' Roundtable
| Date: | 4th February 2003 | Download Presentations (Event Report in prep) |
| Time: | 14:00 - 16.30 | |
| Venue: | TUC,
Trades Union Congress, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London (nearest tube station is Tottenham Court Road on the Central Line) |
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Background:
Our last roundtable on corrective actions (1st October 02) showed the importance of being able to influence your suppliers for successful implementation of the Base Code. Effective working relationships between ethical sourcing managers and suppliers are key, but it is also vital that colleagues in other parts of your company - be they buyers, technologists or quality managers - also support these relationships and help to convey the same message to suppliers.
In practice, however, ethical sourcing managers can find it difficult to get colleagues from other departments to buy in to ethical sourcing principles. This roundtable will bring together the experiences of corporate members in seeking and winning internal support for codes.
Objectives:
The objective of the roundtable is to increase members' understanding of how to effect change in their own organisation, by providing the opportunity to hear and discuss:
- Corporate members' experience, both positive and negative, of
effecting change within their own organisations
- The key success factors and/or barriers to getting greater buy-in
from colleagues
- How the business case for ethical trade can be put forward
effectively within one's own company.
Timetable:
| 14:00 | Introduction by the Chair Man-Kwun Chan, ETI, Research and Information Manager |
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| 14:05 | What has worked in Marks and Spencers. Company buy in. Muriel Johnson, Marks and Spencers, Project Manager, Global Sourcing Principles |
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| 14:25 | Question and answer session | |
| 14:35 | An example of how to overcome the difficulties associated with
effecting change in the organisation Kerrie-Anne McQuillan, Desmond & Sons Ltd, Social Accountability Manager |
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| 14:50 | Question and answer session | |
| 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:10 | WORKSHOPS What gets in the way? What would help? |
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| 15.50 | Discussion | |
| 16:30 | End |
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