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What is PAS 808 - Purpose driven organizations about?
Amid growing calls for radical and urgent change, PAS 808 outlines how, by becoming Purpose-Driven Organizations (PDO), businesses and other entities can help tackle the enormous dangers of the climate emergency, biodiversity loss and growing income inequality, and meet the increasing demands of society.
Who is PAS 808 - Purpose driven organizations for?
- Organizations of any size and type and their stakeholders, but specifically governing bodies and executive managers because of their accountability and power
- Anyone who works for an organization that wants to initiate and support change towards becoming a PDO
- External stakeholders wanting to invest in, support, or hold organizations to account for their commitments to purpose
- External stakeholders, such as legislators, who want to ensure they’re incentivizing and not hindering the work of PDOs
- Those who provide services and support to PDOs
What does PAS 808 - Purpose driven organizations cover?
PAS 808 gives guidance to governing bodies and executive managers on what a purpose is, how a PDO approaches decisions, and how it acts.
It outlines the worldviews, principles and the associated behaviours and activities of a PDO. It establishes common terms and definitions related to purpose. PAS 808 will help the governing bodies and executive managers of organizations:
- Develop their understanding of purpose and determine the relevancy and level of challenge to their individual organization in becoming a PDO
- Understand the worldviews, principles, and behaviours of a successful PDO and determine what their organization might need to do to be aligned with these
- Provide the basis for an organization to develop their own strategies and approaches to enacting and embedding purpose in their policies, processes, practices, products, services and value networks
- Provide the basis for aligning purpose with decision making across the organization
Why should you use PAS 808 - Purpose driven organizations?
- It sets out what it means to be a PDO in practice by outlining key worldviews, values, principles, behaviours and defining key terms
- It gives confidence to those who are genuinely seeking to become purpose-driven or who are already purpose-driven, to shout more clearly and consistently about their struggles and successes, and help others see what is possible
- It provides a way for an organization on a purpose-driven journey to understand both where it’s going and how far away it is from truly contributing to long-term wellbeing
- It can form the basis of accountability for an organization and help demonstrate to stakeholders its level of maturity in becoming purpose-driven
- It can reduce the number of organizations making false claims about purpose
- It can help policymakers, regulators and all other stakeholders diagnose how far they are supporting or hindering organizations to become successful PDOs
To learn more about PAS 808 and how it can help your organization achieve its purpose objectives, listen to The Standards Show podcast episode on PAS 808.
