Corporate social responsibility trends in Lithuania

The aim of the paper is to analyse Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) development trends in Lithuania, examine publicly disclosed information on corporate social responsibility different sectors enterprises, the regulation of corporate social responsibility in Lithuania, to summarize the research on CSR in Lithuania. With the development of economy and society, people are paying more and more attention to CSR, and the contents of CSR are constantly expanding and extending as well. Practice shows, that integrating CSR in the core of business and making it a part of everyone’s daily job is the best way to progress. In Lithuania socially responsible are mostly international companies and especially banks, they prepare and publish reports. Most of the Banks in Lithuania observes the Global Compact's ten principles. In the bank reports, we find human resource management system, which deal with all the issues related to employees that includes employment, compensation, performances, and development of organization, health issues, motivation, administration and training. Reports confirm importance of human capital for successful sustainable development. Banks is strongly committed to social issues and especially invested in educational, entrepreneurial and innovation initiatives