Question

Critique of social disclosures for IKEA
The GRI G4 Guidelines identify a large number of social aspects. Report on no more than five of these aspects. One of the aspects must be Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Explain why the other four aspects were chosen to report on.

Answer 1

The following list shows the categories under the social categories of G4 guidelines:

One of the categories is already choose by the question, choose 4 more from the above list. The recommendation is to use the following with the mentioned reasons:

1. Occupational Health and Safety: This category is chosen because this impacts the long-term work environment safety for the employees and impacts their wellbeing.
2. Supplier Assessment for Labor Practices: In a world where outsourcing of services and work is more frequent, it is necessary for sustainability to disclose what organization is doing to ensure that what it is procuring is free from the unfair and illegal works by suppliers. Big organization must show responsibility for the work of small suppliers they are using for various means.
3. Non-discrimination: Discrimination these days is more than just white and black. It has increased to race, gender, age and other characteristics and its presence in an organization is detrimental to the growth of organization. Hence, this disclosure in the form of the measures company has taken to prevent is necessary.
4. Customer Privacy: Privacy policy these days is a hot concern for many who share information with third parties. It is the responsibility of the organizations to ensure that they have taken sufficient measure and will take sufficient measure to ensure that the customer information is safe.