Pressed,
In the US, it is unethical to REQUIRE donations. Additionally, make sure that your company is not giving charities your home address or phone number without your consent. Several ethical and legal breaches associated with that.
HR and management should know better than to pressure...
1) Procedures are meant to keep consistancy. If a procedure is outdated or not appropriate, get it changed or refreshed to be pertinent. Any VP worth their salt will agree and support that... especially if the current procedure takes up their valuable time unnecessarily.
2) I would strongly...
Denob,
It sounds like your group needs to embrace and institutionalize a mentoring program. At my company, mentoring has always been done informally and worked best for the hungriest proteges and willing/knowledgeable mentors. We have formalized that such that mentors and proteges are matched...