Promoting the job placement of people with disabilities
EADA has once again involved itself in a social cause. More specifically, EADA is collaborating with Fundación Prevent, with broad professional expertise in the job placement of people with disabilities, by making its classrooms available for two weeks –March 15th – 27th – so that participants, around 13 in total, can continue their job placement related training.
Dr. Elisabet Garriga, Professor of Strategy, Leadership and People and director of the EADA Corporate Sustainability Impact Center sees this agreement as a very positive initiative in that “it is in line with our mission of helping all kinds of people to grow professionally through training and especially people with other types of capabilities”. What’s more, she goes on to add, “it is a first step towards closer collaboration with Fundación Prevent, whose work in social and job inclusion for people with disabilities is well known and with whom we share the same commitment of creating social value through training”.
Elisabet Garriga is professor of Strategy, Leadership and People and director of the EADA Corporate Sustainability Impact Center.
EADA’s commitment to social responsibility
This training programme is in line with the Social Responsibility (SR) initiatives promoted by two institutions in which EADA actively participates. The first is the Global Impact, which furthers the Ten SR Principles, and the second is PRME, which promotes what are known as the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), whose objective it is to set down criteria for business schools to provide training based on sustainability and development values –not only considering economic-financial indicators but also taking into account respect for human rights and the environment-.
In the field of SR, EADA operates in to key areas. On the one hand it promotes its own SR policy as a foundation, carrying out programmes and initiatives related to employees and the community – such as for example, the initiatives concerning conciliation between work and family life and the running of the reprography department by the Special Job Center “Apunts”, where all the employees have a mental disability-. Secondly, EADA produces academic research on issues related with sustainability and social impact – via the Corporate Sustainability Impact Center– and incorporates SR concepts on all the academic syllabi of its programmes. In addition, it also furthers research with companies, NGO’s and foundations.