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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Some useful links 1. CSR and sustainable development 2.CSR and market integration- http://www.unido.org/csr.html ICON 2013 by Ichche The new Companies Act 2013 contains several new mandates, including one on corporate social responsibility (CSR), enforcing all qualifying corporations to spend at least 2% of their average net profit of preceding three financial years on CSR.

Martin Seligman and Positive Psychology

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Martin Seligman coined the term - Positive Psychology. It focuses on positive functioning of human being. He suggested self-help techniques: Dr Martin Seligman is the founder of Positive Psychology and explores the latest research in his new book Flourishing. One of his key areas of work has been the infusing of Positive Psychology training with the 1.1 milli on officers of the US army. Rather than focusing on adding additional funds to programs for injured soldiers, his response was to create a training system for the army where officers can become better, stronger and happier people. Why do this? Because the stronger and more emotionally resilient you are, the better you will be able to respond to pressure, crisis and tragedy. Emotionally resilient people after a traumatic event still ‘go through hell’ but rather than remaining traumatised for years afterwards, they actually grow to become emotionally stronger. Now does that mean you should forget about assisting the chronically t