BE FREE, BE RESPONSIBLE
For Square Management, loving and understanding freedom means, above all, accepting the responsibilities that exercising it entails—a concept fully encompassed in the motto that forms the cornerstone of our CSR approach: “To be free is to be responsible!”
Jérôme Boucheron, Square Management’s President
“Given the difficulty we face in finding reference points, in envisioning a collectively desirable horizon, in agreeing on an objective—whose ultimate purpose, although widely contested in its means, remains fiercely debated—today, businesses must contribute, within their limits, to an unprecedented conceptual renewal that the economic and societal era demands. This is extracted from the latest CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) report published by Square Management.
Several recent events have reaffirmed the relevance of these lines. In France (pension reform, the relationship between workers and work, water management…), in the United States (the Biden administration granting permission for oil drilling in Alaska…), in Brazil, Germany, China, and other countries, daily examples abound that highlight the challenges imposed on our organizations by the imperative of ecological transition.
The exasperation of some towards ‘eco-activism,’ and the despair or weariness of others facing ‘ecological inaction,’ unfortunately tend to radicalize opinions, deny or refuse complexity, and seek immediate—and inevitably caricatured—solutions in programs that further undermine the compromises upon which our democracies precariously rely.
In this context, while businesses certainly cannot do everything, they can do a lot!
As organizations, they are—and should be—the laboratory for a future that necessarily reconciles the desirable and the possible. The four pillars on which Square Management’s commitments to corporate social responsibility rest—‘having a sustainable economic model, ensuring the happiness and fulfillment of employees at work, having a positive impact on society, and instilling confidence in our clients’ future—fully illustrate this ambition.
Square Management’s goal of becoming the European leader in strategy and organizational consulting by 2027 obliges our group more than ever to integrate sustainability parameters into each of its interventions, to work towards strengthening dialogue and relationships among all stakeholders, as well as promoting overall principles of mutual aid and cooperation.
‘The worst threat to freedom […], is to unlearn how to love it or no longer understand it.’ — Bernanos, Georges, Freedom, for What? (La liberté, pour quoi faire?), Paris, Gallimard, 1953 (reprinted 2017).”
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT
Square Management’s CSR approach was revised in 2023 to be perfectly aligned with the firm’s objectives and thus contribute to serving its challenges.
THE 4 CHALLENGES OF THE SQUARE MANAGEMENT CSR APPROACH
Develop a sustainable economic model
Make employees happy and fulfilled at work
Make our clients trust the future
Have a positive impact on society
B Corp Certification
MEMBER OF THE SBTi INITIATIVE
UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT
PARTNERSHIP WITH “VENDREDI”
ETHICS
Square Management’s operations are based both on its adherence to the major universal principles (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ILO, United Nations Global Compact) and on the principles established by the Group’s Partners to reinforce their commitment and responsibility (“Management Charter” and “Code of Ethics”).
Square Management has set up an anti-corruption unit, which can be contacted at ethics@square-management.com.
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SQUARE FOUNDATION
LIFE QUALITY AT WORK
WOMEN MENTORING PROGRAM
Square Management is committed to promoting gender parity in all aspects of its organisation and to creating an environment where everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of gender.
Square Management has therefore launched the Women Mentoring Program. This mentoring programme aims to :
Strengthen the position of women in the Group who so wish, and support them as they progress to positions of greater responsibility,
Make men and women aware of the career development challenges facing the women around them,
Encourage a culture of transmission and mutual learning between women and men.
ECO-RESPONSIBLE GUIDE
Let us all be actors of the change. At home and at work, our actions leave a more or less significant environmental footprint. We can act at an individual level and participate, with the group, to the limitation of this negative footprint of our planet.
GENDER EQUALITY INDEW
Therefore a mechanism has been designed, making it possible to any French company with more than fifty employees to self-assess each year with respect to gender equality: the Gender Equality Index.
PAY GAP
INDIVIDUAL RAISE GAPS
PROMOTION GAPS
RETURN FROM MATERNITY LEAVE
BALANCED REPRESENTATION AMONG HIGHEST PAID INDIVIDUALS
SQUARE MANAGEMENT’S ETHICAL RULES
Square Management is committed to being a responsible player in economic life, respectful of its interlocutors.
For Square Management, integrity is much more than a legal obligation. It’s an attitude that reflects the genuine conviction of each and every one of us. It is an essential basis of our relationships with customers and suppliers, because a business relationship presupposes the trust of the other party, and this trust is acquired by behaving with integrity on a daily basis. In tax matters, this commitment is reflected in the following two principles: never contravene tax regulations, and never carry out any operation with a primarily tax-related purpose.
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