Leading Organizational Sustainability - Paperback

by Zuhair Hasan (Author), Cheryl Lentz (Editor)

Organizational sustainability strategies are increasingly becoming the core of business functions in private and public organizations. Consequently, organizational sustainability leadership has become more important as the means and forefront to successfully implement sustainability strategies, generating growth and maintaining organizations as good world citizens.

However, many corporate leaders remain hesitant to integrate sustainability into their organizational elements, as they do not understand what behaviors and values they must master to achieve organizational sustainability objectives. Because, there is inadequate research on practices incorporating sustainability into organizational operations and integrating sustainability strategies into business processes remains confusing. Dr. Zuhair Hasan delivers the first successful integrative approach starting with the four primary leadership styles. Through formal research, every leadership style used in this integrative approach is linked to sustainability leadership and management theory.

Throughout this book, the reader will learn about the appropriate leadership style for organizational sustainability, a new comprehensive definition of sustainability, and a new model for sustaining organization. Additionally, this book provides a new model for the organizational change process for organizational sustainability objectives.

Moreover, this book emphasizes the importance of organizational culture and provides insights into types of organizational culture and the characteristics of the sustainability-oriented culture. Furthermore, it includes detailed information about efficient leadership and how this concept might be misunderstood in sustainability applications. Finally, it provides insight into trust leadership with emotional intelligence, which is critical to organizational sustainability.