The organization and social responsibility in ISO 26000:2021

Abstract

In 2021, the standard ISO 26000 – Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility was renewed, and its translation into Hungarian was completed. When making an overview of the topics and issues of corporate social responsibility, it can be seen that there are hardly any of them unrelated to libraries as organizations. The renewal of the standard, originally published in 2011, and the feedback from libraries on how difficult it is to interpret the criterion of social responsibility in the Quality Performance Evaluation System of Libraries (KMÉR), inspired the author to write this study. The paper deals with a part of the standard that presents the link between the organisation and the social responsibility. It is a resume for professionals, that can be a significant guide and a starting point for the implementation of certain important aspects of the standard in the organization’s regulations and basic documents. In addition to the interpretation of the concepts, the related topics and issues as well as the principles that form the backbone of  social responsibility are presented. Besides describing the standard, the study also contains important supplementary notes by the author.