Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Building more effective organizations
- Part II Enhancing individual health and performance
- Part III Enhancing organizational health and performance
- Part IV Transforming organizations
- 12 Making it better – achieving outstanding performance in manufacturing organizations
- 13 Culture change in a financial services organisation
- 14 Building the sustainable organization through adaptive, creative coherence in the HR system
- 15 Be in to Win – from absence to attendance in Royal Mail Group
- 16 Transforming a company into a community
- Index
14 - Building the sustainable organization through adaptive, creative coherence in the HR system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Building more effective organizations
- Part II Enhancing individual health and performance
- Part III Enhancing organizational health and performance
- Part IV Transforming organizations
- 12 Making it better – achieving outstanding performance in manufacturing organizations
- 13 Culture change in a financial services organisation
- 14 Building the sustainable organization through adaptive, creative coherence in the HR system
- 15 Be in to Win – from absence to attendance in Royal Mail Group
- 16 Transforming a company into a community
- Index
Summary
Introduction
“Without the private sector, sustainable development will remain only a distant dream. We now understand that both business and society stand to benefit from working together. And more and more we are realizing that it is only by mobilizing the corporate sector that we can make significant progress. The corporate sector has the finances, the technology and the management to make all this happen. The corporate sector need not wait for governments to take decisions for them to take initiatives”.
– Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, 2002“More and more now we're looking at the concept of global sustainability, and what that means for the fundamental global drivers that are going to change the nature of our business. What implications is that going to have on us and our businesses, and how will we go about doing our business, in terms of closed systems and re-circulation systems and other sorts of things? And how can we impact some of the social problems facing the planet?”
Canadian Manufacturing Executive, 2005These words from United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and an executive from heavy manufacturing industry illustrate the growing alignment of global and organizational leaders regarding the potential for positive transformation in the relationship between business and society. Over the past decade, scholars in the field of organizational sustainability have identified significant opportunities for value creation by firms that pursue the goal of sustainable development (Hart 1997; Hart and Milstein 2003; Kurucz, Colbert and Wheeler 2008; Wheeler, Colbert and Freeman, 2003).
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- Building More Effective OrganizationsHR Management and Performance in Practice, pp. 310 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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