1st Edition

A New Psychology for Sustainability Leadership The Hidden Power of Ecological Worldviews

By Steve Schein Copyright 2015
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

During the last decade, the sustainability position in multinational corporations has grown in influence. Much literature has explored how corporations can play an important role in solving the environmental challenges facing the planet. However, until now, there has been little research on sustainability leadership at the individual level. In this book, Schein explores the deeper psychological... Read more

Part 1: Introduction

1. Ecologically awake

2. The limits of “sustainability”

Part 2: Exploring the corporate eco-psyche

3. Perspectives on ecological worldviews

4. Life experiences that shape ecological worldviews

5. Anthropocentric blindness

6. The ecological self

7. Expressions of ecocentricism and ecological self in the corporate world

Part 3: How sustainability leaders think

8. Interior dimensions of leadership

9. Human development

10. Expressions of post-conventional worldviews

Part 4: The future of sustainability leadership

11. The collaborator-in-chief (with an ecologicalworldview)

12. Cultivating a new psychology for sustainability leadership

13. Multinational executives as human trim tabs

Appendix A: Ecological Sustainability Worldview Assessment Tool (E-SWAT)

Appendix B: Research methodology and description of participants

Biography

Steve Schein