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Posted by Amanda—

Hi Class,

 

For the Final Project, I chose to write and research the company I work for - UKG. As an employee on the inside, I believe UKG is at the Managerial stage. But, from the outside perspective, I could see the market assuming Civil because of the industry we work and the and the products/services we provide. To the consumer, they see the Great Place to Work summit we host, can participate in the Close the Gap pay initiative we are leading with our customers, hear about the collaboration with JetBlue to sustainably source the fuel for their first Boston to Dublin flight through our connections, and much more.

As a human capital and workforce management organization, we try our best to enable our customers to support the community and the planet as we take on key initiatives side by side with them to make a difference. But internally, employees can still feel the stress of our merger, are still engaged in making two companies become one, and the alignment of two leading cultures in our industry. As called out in our textbook, UKG is embedding CSR into core managerial processes and growing department to support sustainability, DBE&I, and community outreach (Haski-Leventhal, 2022).

We are on our way to being at the strategic phase in my opinion, which I think brings up a very important point that companies can move throughout phases of this period. In both short and long term goals, I can see UKG taking action to integrate responsible business practices into our core operations (Haski-Leventhal, 2022). In their 2022 Sustainability Report, they made commitments to reduce e-waste, their carbon footprint, and ultimately achieve net zero GHG emissions across our value chain by 2040 (2022 Global, 2023).  In 2022 we had a security breach that I would say dropped us down to the compliance phase where we were in a mitigation effort that still led to the exposure of a class action about the data breached during our exposure. 

 

References

2022 global impact report. UKG. (2023).  https://www.ukg.com/ukg-global-impact-report

Haski-Leventhal, D. (2022).  Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility A Holistic Approach to Responsible & Sustainable Business (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications.