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This book provides an authoritative, evidence-based understanding of the implications of climate change for organisations, and offers valuable insights into how to craft and embed a sustainable purpose.
List of contents
Introduction Chapter 1: The Science of Human-Induced Climate Change Chapter 2: The Impacts of Global Climate Change in the Context of Organisational Responsibility Chapter 3: The Global Context for Organisational Climate Action Chapter 4: The Shift from Shareholder Capitalism to Marginalised Stakeholder Capitalism Chapter 5: Defining and Developing Organisational Purpose Chapter 6: Effecting the Change to Become Purpose-Led Chapter 7: Purpose-Led Decision-Making Across the Organisation Chapter 8: Managing People in the Purpose-Led Organisation Chapter 9: Purpose-Led Communication: Practical Steps Towards Defining Your Organisation's Purpose and Communicating Meaningfully to Your Stakeholders Chapter 10: Measuring and Reporting on Purpose at a Time of Crisis and Unravelling Consensus
About the author
Katie Bailey is Professor of Leadership and HRM at Northumbria University and Emerita Professor of Work and Employment at King's College London. She is a widely published, international award-winning scholar, focusing on meaningful work, employee engagement, temporality at work, and human resource management. She was the lead editor of
Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice (2013, Routledge) and co-editor of the
Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work (2019) as well as the lead author of
Strategic Human Resource Management (2nd Ed., 2018).
Katie Manning is Lecturer in Climate Change, Business, and Society in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK. Her work focuses on cross-disciplinary, and systems approaches to climate change, drawing on the political, economic, and social dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation. Katie received her PhD from the University of Oxford, looking at the role of human adaptation to past climatic change and, having worked in the field of palaeoclimatology for over a decade, has more recently shifted her attention to the challenge of contemporary and future climate change.
