Reconstructing Value: Leadership Skills for a Sustainable World by Elizabeth Kur

Description: Reconstructing Value by Elizabeth Kurucz, Barry Colbert, David Wheeler Reconstructing Value helps readers to build integrative thinking skills that can assist them with becoming successful sustainability champions within their organizations. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Reconstructing Value prepares contemporary business leaders for the increasingly important task of developing a sustainability vision and translating it across levels in an organization. The book is based on insights gained over the past decade from research involving hundreds of practitioners, front line managers to senior executives, who have been working to integrate sustainability within their organizations. It illustrates how building capacity for managing the complex issues of sustainability requires key process skills that leaders need to develop.This book equips readers to respond to the risks and opportunities presented by global sustainability issues and reinvent new ways of doing business that will enhance organizational effectiveness while also building a more sustainable world. Each chapter includes process questions to guide reflective practice and to build the requisite leadership capabilities for turning a sustainability vision into a value-added organizational strategy. Reconstructing Value helps readers to build integrative thinking skills - such as how to engage critical, complexity, strategic and design thinking capabilities to enable organizational change - that can assist them with becoming successful sustainability champions within their organizations. Author Biography Elizabeth C. Kurucz is an assistant professor of Organizational Behaviour and Sustainable Commerce in the Department of Business, College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph. Barry A. Colbert is an associate professor of Policy and Strategic Management in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. David C. Wheeler is Executive Dean of Business and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Plymouth. Table of Contents Chapter 1: IntroductionPart I: RethinkingChapter 2: Envisioning a New Way of Doing Business: Thinking Skills for Sustainable OrganizationsChapter 3: Transforming Organizations and Society: Learning our Way ForwardPart II: RelatingChapter 4: Complex Global Issues as the Context for Value CreationChapter 5: Managing for Stakeholders in a Complex WorldPart III: RespondingChapter 6: Sustainability ConversationsChapter 7: Wicked Problems and Complex Processes: The Social Dynamics of SustainabilityChapter 8: From Stakeholder Management to Social Integration: Building Collaboratively Competitive OrganizationsPart IV: ReinventingChapter 9: Reconstructing Value: Leadership in Reinventing Notions of Success Long Description Reconstructing Value prepares contemporary business leaders for the increasingly important task of developing a sustainability vision and translating it across levels in an organization. The book is based on insights gained over the past decade from research involving hundreds of practitioners, front line managers to senior executives, who have been working to integrate sustainability within their organizations. It illustrates how building capacity for managing the complex issues of sustainability requires key process skills that leaders need to develop. This book equips readers to respond to the risks and opportunities presented by global sustainability issues and reinvent new ways of doing business that will enhance organizational effectiveness while also building a more sustainable world. Each chapter includes process questions to guide reflective practice and to build the requisite leadership capabilities for turning a sustainability vision into a value-added organizational strategy. Reconstructing Value helps readers to build integrative thinking skills - such as how to engage critical, complexity, strategic and design thinking capabilities to enable organizational change - that can assist them with becoming successful sustainability champions within their organizations. Details ISBN1442611537 Author David Wheeler Publisher University of Toronto Press Year 2013 ISBN-10 1442611537 ISBN-13 9781442611535 Format Paperback Subtitle Leadership Skills for a Sustainable World Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada DEWEY 658.4092 Language English Media Book Pages 320 Short Title RECONSTRUCTING VALUE 2/E Edition 2nd Publication Date 2013-03-05 UK Release Date 2013-03-05 Illustrations 20 figures Alternative 9781442642768 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Rotman-UTP Publishing - Business and Sustainability AU Release Date 2013-03-04 Imprint Rotman/UTP Publishing We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161702033;

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