Corporate Social Responsibility Association of Turkey

Turkey Association of Corporate Social Responsibility built CSR Turkey Index to evaluate institution and organizations’ works within the framework of success and to provide a comparison of performances in these areas between the other index participants.

CSR Turkey Index was prepared to take into consideration of Turkey’s economic, social, and environmental conditions. Index aims to be developed of managements’ performances and to be measured of managements’ performances in economic, social, environmental and reporting-control areas. Additionally, it provides some opportunities to the managements which accepts social responsibility such as a business strategy like social, economic and environmental plans’ being explanation.

CSR Turkey Index was prepared with the help of BITC to be suitable for every sector and every different managements.

Institutions and organizations which want to publish CSR report, can share their performances with evaluating over CSR Turkey Index.

The topics like cross-border trade, supply chain, human resources management, environmental sensitivity, health and security came into prominence with globalization.

Turkey republic’s publishing guides, declarations, agreements within framework of social, economic, ethic, and environmental, and Turkey republic’s making real collaborations with the international institutions like United Nations, International Labor Organization, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developement encourage institutions and organizations to product some solutions for CSR and sharing the solutions with others.

As a result of advanced communication technologies; being able to check performances of companies with the help of internet and other communication tools, being faster of information flow, and public opinion’s being more related with institutions‘ social and environmental standards caused to be done institution and organizations‘ more explanatory in their all activities.

Investors and consumers both hope to be increased responsible investmens of companies and wonder how companies built a relation about risk and opportunities with social and environmental topics.

Companies‘ activities are expected to be transparent, to be given an account of and being suitable for corporate governance, ethic standards and informing people to provide trustworthiness.

CSR Turkey Index measures how much companies are succesful about social responsibility. Additionally, it provides to be developed the performances of companies and makes easier the settling of companies to the laws and regulations which may be entered into force because of Corporate Social Responsibility apllications‘ being law in developed countries.

CSR Turkey’s setting data criterions which were prepared with 5 main parts were determined with taking into consideration of institutions and organizations‘ social, economic and environmental operations. While survey questions were being prepared, international indexes and local dynamics of Turkey were taken into consideration.

Gathering together of data sets are done in three different ways in CSR Turkey Index.

CSR Turkey Index which is published in online way is gained by managements and informations are sent to CSR Turkey.
Firm visitations are done by Turkey Corporate Social Responsibiliy Association experts. The index informations which are prepared with experts and business representatives are transmitted to CSR Turkey.
The gained datas which are got with online searchs by Turkey Corporate Social Responsibility Association experts are transmitted to CSR Turkey.

Time Plan

Companies, experts and committee’s time plan of preparing CSR Turkey Index, evaluation and feedback is written down:

Publishing CSR Turkey Index – 11 October 2010
CSR Turkey Index Workshop – 11 October 2010/01 April 2011
Setting datas and making an application – 01 August 2011
TCSRA‘s analyzing applications, data setting visitations and feedback – 15 November 2011
Informin results and placement– 01 January 2012

CSR Tukey Index points system was developed with the principle that companies must be sorted with looking to their performance datas.

CSR Turkey Index evaluates effect of topic areas which are about social, environmental, and economic things as 2 points. Other questions are evaluated as 1 point in other positive responses. Elective areas are used for sorting of institutions that act in same sectors and in same conditions except total index participants. All CSR topic areas which are except of elective areas must be filled by institutions and organizations.

Index is combined with 5 main parts as institutional strategy, management and processes, economical effect, environmental effect and reporting-control. Every part occurs from different subtitles, and every part aims to be appeared CSR’s performance with the help of question-answer method. Score weights are different for every part and these are written down.

Institutional Strategy, Management and Processes      %10
Economy                                                                           %30
Social                                                                                %30
Environmental                                                                 %25
Reporting-controlling                                                       %5

Corporate Social Responsibility Library was built to develope social responsibility consciousness and to spread CSR apllications in Turkey by Corporate Social Responsibility Academy which combined university, civil society and business.CSR Library which is in Kadir Has University’s Library is for every institution and person.