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INDICATORS OF S-LCA IN EMPLOYEES CATEGORY, THEIR MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING IN THE COMPANY.
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Discussions about a sustainable development provoked the initiative to focus to methods based on evaluation of environmental, social and economical production impacts. The interest in taking into consideration also the social point of view appears recently more and more often in connection with the environmental evaluation of any product life cycle. This way a motion to formation of the SLCA (Social Life Cycle Assessment) has been made. This paper describes the results of a research in some selected companies in the Czech Republic the subject of which was questioning about the knowledge of SLCA, measurement of social impacts indicators of production to employees and their use and reporting. Within the research it was examined how business identify, monitor and evaluate the social impacts of their activities on employees in the areas mentioned above. It was analysed why, and what are the indicators compiled these impacts, how their value is reflected in the management of business operations and human resources. Attention of the research has been also paid to social reporting system (both external and internal) as complex aggregation of information that is presented to company stakeholders that could, based on these reports, consider the social impacts of planned decisions. The research was carried out with a form of controlled talk to personnel officers and to staff of health and safety department. The goal of the paper is to bring interpretation of empirical evidence and to find among generally recommended indicators these that are suitable for the Czech companies and to find out whether and which way they are treated there.
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