Those who advocate moving towards sustainability debate how change
can be achieved. Does it have necessarily to be top-down or can it
also be bottom-up? Can radical organizational and social change be
spread from "the middle"? Who can lead change when those with
seniority and credibility are necessarily embedded in currently
dominant mind-sets and power structures? This book focuses on what
it means to take up leadership for sustainability, from a variety
of organizational and social positions, and considers the
consequences of different strategies and practices for influencing
change. Leadership for Sustainability shows what an action research
based practice of leadership for sustainability looks like and
provides a sense of the personal and professional challenges this
involves; it demonstrates how people who are influencing change
draw on reflective practice strategically (to create a context in
which they can be influential) and also tactically (in
moment-to-moment choices about how to act). It also illustrates and
reflects on the kinds of outcomes that can be expected from this
work, both the specific and strategic achievements, and the
difficulties, challenges and disappointments. Thus the major part
of this volume consists of accounts by graduates of an innovative
master's programme, the MSc in Responsibility and Business
Practice, of their activities, projects, achievements and learning.
Accompanying sections from the editors overview, analyse and
reflect on these accounts and the issues they raise for notions of
leadership, practice, sustainability and change. One substantial
chapter offers ideas, frameworks and practices for people taking
leadership. One of the most dispiriting aspects of the
environmental challenges that beset us is the lack of agency that
many people experience: we do not know what to do or how to do it.
Many organizations espouse a sustainable approach. This may be lip
service or it may be a genuine attempt to integrate sustainability
into business strategy. Whatever form it takes, organizational
sustainability programmes need committed, intelligent, reflective
leadership at all levels to make them work. The examples in this
book show how people in very different contexts have seized the
opportunities open to them and acted with courage and initiative to
make a difference. This book will be relevant to a wide range of
people, including managers, consultants and others in commercial,
non-profit, public and intergovernmental organisations who want to
contribute to the development of a sustainable world. It will be of
particular interest to people working in organizations already
thinking about issues of sustainability and those who are seeking
to take on the role of change agents in organisations or
communities. In addition, the book will be a resource for those in
educational fields, primarily but not exclusively higher and
further education, who wish to work with their students to develop
leadership practices through action research based educational
approaches. All contributors to this book have been associated with
the MSc in Responsibility & Business Practice at the University
of Bath, School of Management, UK, either as tutors or
participants. This innovative degree course used action research to
engage with challenging issues in a wide range of business, public
service and civil society contexts.At the heart of this book are
stories from 29 people who are seeking to make the world more
environmentally sustainable and socially just. They report their
purposes, journeys, impacts, learning and disappointments. Their
accounts are diverse and from many different worlds, ranging from
fast moving consumer goods to international forestry and
conservation projects. They have in common that they are among the
254 graduates of an innovative Master's programme, the MSc in
Responsibility and Business Practice community, who in one way or
another are adopting action research as a practice of taking
leadership for sustainability, and believe their actions can be
significant contributions to the causes that matter to them.
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