Mining and Metals: Taking a Role in Pressing Social Issues: HIV/AIDS
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Year: 2009
Abstract:
Early case studies of how corporations in the U.S. responded to employees with HIV/ AIDS in the 1980s focused on learning from individual cases, updating specific employee benefits, and generally developing responsible and voluntary human resource management practices (for example, the case of Levi Straus in San Francisco). Years later, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa has posed a large scale and unavoidable challenge that goes well beyond benefits and HR best practices. Large proportions of the current workforce are affected, and in addition, the community and future workforce are threatened as the deaths of working adults leave holes in families and civic life. Businesses have not had the choice to turn away, but have worked to stay a step ahead with new practices. The business approach to HIV / AIDS shows the inextricable connection of mining and metals companies with the communities in which they operate.
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