SHISHOVA ZHANNA ALEKSEEVNA

The article focuses on the foundations of corporate culture as a social mechanism for promoting attitudes toward sustainable development, which is a driver of making an organization more effective in the modern world. The author examines how best practices are applied in social and HR policies, lean management, anti-corruption, and digital culture. The article outlines the potential for implementing an innovative client-centered approach in the public administration system, which refers to citizens and civil servants as «clients». Based on the Sustainable Development Goals, the paper highlights how corporate ethics and business codes can enhance an organization’s strategic management. The author concludes that integrating sustainable development principles into the management system requires a human element. Establishing sustainable development principles lays the foundations for developing new legal consciousness, legal norms, and governance structures. The primary ideological trend is a shift away from the narrow egoism of individuals or groups at all levels, including the conduct of individual organization administrations and their employees. The implementation of ESG strategies can help the state achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The article examines how dynamic corporate culture impacts the ESG transformation of leading Russian companies and government agencies in the context of attaining sustainable development goals. The author studies various socially-oriented corporate practices realized to implement sustainable development policies. Given the severe sanctions pressure on the Russian economy and society, implementing the ESG agenda is now focused on addressing social issues and improving corporate governance efficiency. Developing a corporate culture that contributes to the organization’s sustainability and global competitiveness is one of the elements influencing the ESG transformation of businesses and governmental institutions. To date, the share of modern technology penetrating the process of ESG transformation in Russian organizations is still lower than in the world’s leading economies. The article highlights the connection between adopting new corporate culture models and the resolution of issues in achieving the state’s and organizations’ strategic success. Despite facing severe sanctions and global military and political confrontation, Russia’s state and large companies continue to evolve within the framework of sustainable development.

Implementing the ESG techniques, also known as sustainable development or corporate social responsibility, can significantly increase the effectiveness of corporate and government management in the long term. The article addresses the key factors of the sustainable development concept, considering the three elements - ecological (environmental protection), social development, and economic growth. The materials of the article demonstrate the evolution of the «sustainable development» concept in international relations and present the actual methods of ESG used both in Russia and abroad. The author revealed the increasing influence of the social («S-factor») as well as the creation and optimization of a new corporate culture on the quality of the management processes during the global financial, economic, and geopolitical crisis. The article provides recommendations on the use of techniques and practices of environmental and social management in the public and business sectors. The analysis revealed systemic interconnections between achieving the sustainable development goals, as a core concept promoted by the UN, and using progressive practices of environmental and social management in business and public administration.

The global problem of corruption needs an integrative understanding from psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, and cultural approaches. Corruption threatens national and global security, leads to the degradation of humanistic, moral values, and significantly reduces the level of social capital and the effectiveness of governance in a wide range of areas. The article considers the origins of corruption and its motivating factors based on ideas concerning the nature of man, the human psyche, based on an analysis of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious levels of consciousness and subconscious, instinctive impulses. The author discusses the possibility of preventing corruption in an ecosystem approach to civil service, which would allow a holistic presentation of internal and external factors that determine the essence of the civil service, the prerequisites, and conditions for its harmonization with the social environment. By understanding civil servants’ behavior, internal motives, and external incentives, it is possible to define a public service ecosystem that will ensure a symbiosis between the civil service, society, and the State. The creation of such an ecosystem can contribute to the qualitative improvement of public administration

The article reveals the main ethical problem of balancing freedom and security, which has become particularly acute in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The author highlights some other significant issues facing both individual states and the entire world community: the problem of choosing “who to save first”, “save the economy or the people”, as well as several moral and ethical problems related to individual responsibility of each person for the life and safety of fellow citizens. The article provides an overview of the main scientific theories (“Freedom is good, but security is better” by T. Hobbes, correlation of freedom and security by Ch. Montesquieu, the categorical imperative in ethics of I. Kant, the utilitarianism of I. Bentham and J. S. Mill, and the “trolley problem” by P. R. Foot) concerning the ethical problems faced by humanity in the “epoch of coronavirus”. Special attention is paid to the views of modern foreign philosophers and sociologists (P. Singer, J. Everett) on global society’s comprehension of the “a new reality” that has emerged as a result of the global economic shutdown and the unprecedented introduction of mass isolation and quarantine measures. The author analyzes from the point of view of ethics the actions taken by governments in different countries to ensure the safety of citizens and the guaranteeing of the basic right to live at the peak of a pandemic. The article notes the ambiguous nature of these measures, which can have far-reaching consequences for society and humanity.