Sustainable Leadership: Honeybee and Locust Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780415891387 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Gayle C. Avery; Harald Bergsteiner

Opis

The business case for operating along sustainable principles is becoming very clear. Sustainable organizations outperform their peers on many criteria, including corporate social responsibility, employee satisfaction and -- surprising for some -- even financially. Sustainable Leadership: Honeybee and Locust Approaches presents an evidence-based view of how 23 leadership practices facilitate outcomes that go beyond what is commonly referred to as the triple bottom line -- environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility and financial success. The book centers on a powerful metaphor of honeybee and locust behaviors, which illustrate two leadership philosophies with very different outcomes for a business and its viability. Gathering evidence from scholars combined with observations from successful firms around the world, the book presents a bundle of principles, behaviors and beliefs that forms a sustainable leadership system. This engaging, insightful book offers a set of principles that can be adapted in many ways to underpin sustainable leadership in different situations. It provides evidence and a rationale for building a business case to change towards more sustainable practices.

Spis treści

1. Sustainable Enterprises  2. Elements of Sustainable Leadership  3. Foundation Practices  4. Higher-level Practices and Key Performance Drivers  5. Performance Outcomes as Leadership Practices Interact  6. Epilogue: After the Global Financial Crisis