Exercises - The view on companies and organisations

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Exercise

 Task : Making your voice heard (reflection exercise)

• Where do you see opportunities for the mining industry to contribute its expertise to the discourse on responsibility?

• How can the mining industry make its voice heard in the discourse?

Working time approx. 45 min.

Exercise

 Task : Core responsibility (transfer exercise)

Select a company. (Note: It can also be the company you work for).

(a) Identify its core business, its core impact, its core values.

(b) Identify at least one virulent topic from the mining sector that affects the company.

(c) Determine what responsibility the company considers itself to have with regard to (b) (self-attribution).

(d) Determine what responsibility is attributed to the company with regard to topic (b) (external attribution).

(e) Where would you see the company's core responsibility? How do you assess the core responsibility against the background of the social discourse (on the identified topic (b))?

Working time approx. 150 min.