Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders and Change Agents of the Future

Dexter Colboyd Dunphy, Andrew Griffiths, Suzanne Benn

Psychology Press, 2003 - Business & Economics - 315 pages

The sustainability of business, both economically and ecologically, is one of this century's central debates. While corporations can have positive effects on society and the environment, they can also impact it negatively. This book raises important questions such as 'how do corporations become truly sustainable?'

Bringing together global issues of ecological sustainability, human resource management, corporate citizenship and community renewal, this book creates a unified approach to global sustainability. Outlining the long-term corporate benefits, it examines the changes required to achieve true sustainability.

This timely and novel approach to a very topical subject, has been written by a team of well-known and respected international authors. It includes case studies, critical vignettes, boxed features, chapter summaries, and will be of particular interest to anyone studying or working in the areas of management, environmental studies, sustainability or organizational studies.

Contents

• Setting the agenda for corporate sustainability: 3
• The evolution of the corporation: 6
• Phase models of sustainability: 13
• Change agent roles and the phase model: 17
• Phases in the development of corporate sustainability: 22
• The drivers of change: 29
• Emerging forces driving sustainability: 31
• External drivers of change: 32
• Internal drivers of change: 49
• Conclusion: 55
• The sustaining corporation: 62
• The third wave: 64
• Putting the jigsaw together: 67
• Conclusion: 83
• Managing the persistent past dealing with first wave corporations: 89
• Compliance and beyond: 91
• Making the structural changes needed for compliance: 99
• Moving to compliance plus: 105
• Phases in the development of compliance: 124
• The dominant current reality understanding and reconstructing second wave corporations: 131
• Achieving sustainable efficiencies: 133
• What is efficiency?: 135
• How can the search for efficiency contribute to sustainability?: 139
• Potential benefits of efficiency: 143
• high or low paths to competitive advantage?: 144
• Creating ecoefficiencies: 146
• Creating human efficiencies: 152
• integrating human and ecological efficiency: 160
• Moving beyond efficiency approaches: 161
• Sustainability the strategic advantage: 166
• The importance of strategy: 170
• What is strategic sustainability?: 173
• How strategic sustainability contributes to competitive advantage: 176
• Risks of the strategic approach: 179
• Beyond rhetoric and greenwash: 180
• The winning formula: 183
• The move from efficiency to strategy: 185
• Introducing new tools and techniques: 189
• Linking operational processes to sustainable strategy: 191
• Creating enabling structures and designs: 192
• Building employee knowledge and commitment: 193
• Building executive leadership and stewardship: 194
• Developing differentiated stakeholder strategies: 196
• Moving beyond strategic sustainability: 197
• Pathways to sustainability: 203
• The incremental path: 205
• Incremental versus transformational change: 207
• What is Incremental change?: 209
• Benefits of incremental change: 212
• Potential pitfalls of incremental change: 217
• Major issues in the movement between phases: 219
• Steps involved in incremental change: 226
• Conclusion: 231
• The transformational path: 234
• Know where you are now: 237
• Develop the vision the dream organization: 240
• Identify the gap: 245
• Assess the readiness for change: 247
• Set the scene for action: 249
• Secure basic compliance first: 251
• Move beyond compliance: 253
• Establish the performance criteria for compliance plus: 255
• Launch and manage the transformational change programme: 258
• Maintain the rage: 260
• Leading towards sustainability: 263
• Key factors in change agent competency: 265
• Achieving mastery: 267
• Starting with selfleadership: 269
• Seeking cosmocentric consciousness: 270
• Building or assembling the skills needed for diagnosis and action: 273
• Creating dialogue and shared scenarios: 276
• Identifying and dealing with resistance to change: 278
• Making it happen: 279
• Who are the leaderschange agents?: 281
• Building ailiances of change agents: 290
• Owning your power and changing corporate cuiture: 292
• Putting the jigsaw puzzle together: 293
• The corporate sustainability checklist: 296
• Further reading: 305
• Index: 307

Bibliographic information

• Title: Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders and Change Agents of the Future; Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders and Change Agents of the Future, Dexter Colboyd Dunphy; Understanding organizational change
• Authors: Dexter Colboyd Dunphy, Andrew Griffiths, Suzanne Benn
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0415287405, 9780415287401
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Business Ethics; Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development; Business & Economics / Entrepreneurship; Business & Economics / General; Business & Economics / Management; Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior; Business & Economics / Organizational Development; Business & Economics / Structural Adjustment