The Purpose-Driven Organisation in Times of Climate Crisis

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Katie Bailey and Katie Manning

Chapter 1: The science of human-induced climate change

Mark Maslin

Chapter 2: The impacts of global climate change in the context of organisational responsibility

Anita Wreford and Katie Manning

Chapter 3: The global context for organisational climate action

Duncan Russel and Nick Kirsop-Taylor

Chapter 4: The shift from shareholder capitalism to marginalised stakeholder capitalism

Rashedur Chowdhury

Chapter 5: Defining and developing organisational purpose

Victoria Hurth and Charles Ebert

Chapter 6: Effecting the change to become purpose-led

Craig V. Robinson and Luis D. Torres

Chapter 7: Purpose-led decision-making across the organisation

Catherine Tilley

Chapter 8: Managing people in the purpose-led organisation

Na Fu

Chapter 9: Purpose-led communication: practical steps towards defining your organisation’s purpose and communicating meaningfully to your stakeholders

Joep Cornelissen and Mirjam Werner

Chapter 10: Measuring and reporting on purpose at a time of crisis and unravelling consensus

David Aikman and Marc Lepere

Index

Biography

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.

"By bringing purpose scholarship and climate scholarship together, the editors of this unique and important book offer help and hope to business organisations seeking to solve some of the most important challenges facing our world today and in the future."

- Professor Christopher Michaelson, author of Is Your Work Worth It?

"This ground-breaking work on the importance of organisational purpose and workplace culture is full of key insights that will help and support organisations through times of change."

- Nita Clarke OBE, Director, Involvement and Participation Association

"Balancing social, environmental and financial capital is the only way forward. As an entrepreneur, who has the privilege of leading a pioneering business that was born to deliver on this change, I highly recommend The Purpose-Driven Organisation in Times of Climate Crisis. Delivering purpose with authenticity, meaning and substance is worthwhile, rewarding and of paramount importance. This book brings to life the issues we face, and highlights the actions we all can take to make a lasting difference."

- John Steel, CEO, Cafédirect

"This timely and necessary book 'joins the dots' between the overwhelming evidence of climate crisis and the need for organisations to respond to this crisis, with renewed purpose and commitment. There is plenty here for leaders to think about and act on."

-Stefan Stern, Former FT columnist and Visiting Professor, Bayes Business School