Many employees want a work life that aligns with their personal values. Employees who value the environment can feel increased workplace engagement when they believe their employer is genuinely working to reduce its environmental impacts. Better employee engagement can reduce labor costs through easier recruitment, stronger retention, and more productivity among employees. Some companies offer engagement programs that allow volunteer employees to work towards environmental goals as an additional feature of their employment. The case of Diana Glassman and TD Bank illustrates the challenges of developing and implementing effective environmental employee engagement programs. Important challenges for employee engagement programs include offering co-benefits that fit with employees and assuring employees that the environmental improvements and co-benefits are genuine. Glassman addressed these challenges by using employees’ peers to communicate about the engagement programs and aligning the engagement programs with TD Bank’s company culture.

This chapter first explains how the Chinese Communist Party is organized and controls the political system. Unlike the political parties in mature democracies, the Chinese Communist Party is a Leninist party that resembles a secret society, characterized by monopolistic communist ideology, strict hierarchy, exclusive membership, and two unique party organs: the Propaganda Department, and the United Front Work Department. In such a political system, the party eclipses the entire society, including the government, creating a unique party-state that imposes absolute rule over China. The chapter further shows that, leveraging its total control, the party-state creates a low human rights environment in China that enables the party-state to achieve its objectives with few costs and little resistance. In the past four decades, China’s economy grew rapidly, creating a large middle class. However, due to its total dependence on the party, the newly emerged middle class is in no position to push for democracy and the rule of law.