Assessing the Mobility Impact on the Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract

Companies have significant impacts on the lives of citizens worldwide in terms of working conditions, human rights, health, innovation, environment, and training. Companies need prevent, manage, and mitigate any negative impacts that they may cause on society and the environment. Mobility Management is the set of initiatives that each entity, both public and private, put in place to manage the mobility of its workers, with particular attention to systematic home-work-home travel. The home-to-work trip plan is a practical tool for the Mobility Manager of the company to investigate the employees’ travel habits and plan interventions to make mobility sustainable. In terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) which is the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society, mobility managers can analyze the effects deriving from the systematic home-to-work mobility of the employees and prepare the CSR report. They can use a software solution specially conceived for Mobility Management, and they can obtain the required data for analysis through the questionnaires via the web. The first questionnaire is completed by the mobility manager of the company also the second one by the employees. Also, since the mobility management policies can shift the modal split towards more sustainable behaviours, assessing the impact of systematic mobility of the employees of a company on different stakeholders is necessary. This paper evaluates two classes of stakeholders (employees and the company itself) by considering the choice made by employees among different modes of transport (private cars, motorcycles, bicycles, public transportation, and walking).