Topic: Organizational Culture

How can organizations build durable, enduring cultures of sustainability?

Sustainability initiatives are often led by a few key individuals - and typically people in leadership positions. What happens to the company's sustainability culture when those key individuals leave?

NBS conducted a systematic review of the world's best management research to determine how companies embed sustainability in their corporate cultures. The resulting report is a how-to-guide for executives that answers the following questions:

  • What tools or practical devices help embed sustainability in organizational culture (e.g. organizational design, incentives systems, etc)?
  • Which of these practices are most effective? What is the relationship between them?
  • What can be learned from the safety movement, which is now a core element of most extractive and manufacturing firms' corporate cultures?
  • How can we measure our progress towards a culture of sustainability?

Read Stephanie Bertels' new report Embedding Sustainability into the Culture of Municipal Government, which promises to help municipal change agents advance sustainability in their organizations and become role models for others in the community.

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Systematic Review: Organizational Culture

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Executive Report: Organizational Culture

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This report designed for executives and senior HR managers represents a framework for embedding sustainability in organizational culture. ... Read More »

Satisfied Employees Boost Your Stock Price

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The greater job satisfaction your employees experience, the higher your stock price will be. That’s the finding from Alex Edmans of The Wharton School at ... Read More »

Being Pals with the Boss Is Bad for Your Health

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Conventional wisdom suggests that small companies struggle to support employee health and safety because of their limited resources and access to information. A new study ... Read More »

For Employee Buy-In, Supervisors Trump the CEO

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If you’re struggling to engage employees in your CSR goals, focus on their immediate supervisors. Researchers David Cantor, Paula Morrow, and Frank Montabon discovered the ... Read More »

5 Rules for Becoming a CSR Leader

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For your company to be a sustainability leader, you need sustainability leadership inside your organization. NBS reviewed the best management research from around the world ... Read More »

Top 10 CSR Research Findings of 2012

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The following are the most popular Research Insights published in 2012: 1. Burned-Out Employees? Reduce Absenteeism with Workplace Interventions Michael Leiter shows weekly meetings and ... Read More »
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A Guide for Retailers: Engaging Employees in Going “Green”

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This guide presents 10 proven ways to engage employees in your company’s environmental and social goals. It is based on 30 years of academic and ... Read More »
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A Guide for Service Providers: Engaging Employees in Going “Green”

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This guide presents 10 proven ways to engage employees in your company’s environmental and social goals. It is based on 30 years of academic and ... Read More »
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A Guide for Manufacturers: Engaging Employees in “Going Green”

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Engaging Employees in Going Green

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The 5 Traits of Firms that Create Sustainability ROI

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New research reveals companies that integrate sustainability into their core business strategy financially outperform firms that don’t. And five key traits drive these companies’ increased ... Read More »
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Employees Want to Believe CSR is About “Doing the Right Thing”

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Employees assume their company’s environmental actions are motivated by a corporate desire to “do good”. However, research shows most environmental activities are actually motivated by ... Read More »
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Loyal Employees Can Make Unethical Choices

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A strong organizational identity helps improve group cohesion, increase job performance and decrease turnover. But are there dangers to a strong identity? Could employees who ... Read More »

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