Organisational Change forCorporate Sustainability:A Guide for Leaders and ChangeAgents of the Future (2nd Edition)Dunphy DGriffiths ABenn SRoutledge(2007)RejectionNon-responsivenessComplianceEfficiencyStrategic pro-activity
Organisational Change for
Corporate Sustainability:
A Guide for Leaders and Change
Agents of the Future (2nd Edition)
Dunphy D
Griffiths A
Benn S
Routledge
(2007)
Rejection
Non-responsiveness
Compliance
Efficiency
Strategic pro-activity
The sustaining corporation
From Dunphy, D. , Griffiths, A. and Benn, S., Organisational Change for Corporate
Sustainability, Routledge, London and New York, 2003; revised edition 2007)
Ecological Sustainability Phases
Human
Sustainability
Phases
| THE C |
UNSUSTAI ORPORATI |
ABLE ON |
| THE CONCER |
ECOLOGIC NED COR |
ALLY ORATION |
| THE SUST CORPO |
AINABLE RATION |
|
| THE PEO CO |
PLE-CONC RPORATIO |
ERNED N |
The Sustainability Change Matrix (from Dunphy et al 2003)
| Rejection |
| Activism against sustainability Risk loss of business and reputation Inappropriate use of science |
NonResponse Compliance Efficiency Proactivity Organisation Sustaining
BAU
Risk loss of
business and
reputation
Greenwash
Implement
environmental
awareness
Minimise
risks
Image
building
Systematic
EMS/ HRM
Emphasis on
reporting
Risk
avoidance
Improved
efficiency and
engagement
Proactive and
strategic
High level
interpersonal/
soft skills
Structural
redesign for
flexibility
Stakeholder
management
Transformative
culture
Redefine
business
relationships
and context
© Source: The Phase Model – Dunphy,
Griffiths and Benn, 2007
Auditing
Reporting
Systems
design
Innovative
capacity
Partnering
for renewal
| 1st Wave 2nd Wave 3rd Wave | ||
| Opposition Ignorance Rejection Non responsiveness •Highly instrumental perspective on employees and natural environment •Culture of exploitation •Opposition to government and green activists •Community claims seen as illegitimate. •Financial and technological factors have primacy •More ignorant than oppositional. •Seeks business as usual, compliant workforce. •Environmental resources seen as a free good. |
Risk Cost Competitive Advantage Compliance Efficiency Strategic Pro-activity •Focuses on reducing risks of sanctions for failing to meet minimum legal and community standards. •Little integration between HR and environmental functions. •Follows route of compliance plus proactive measures to maintain good citizen image. •HR systems seen as means to higher productivity and efficiency •Environmental management seen as a source of avoidable cost for the organisation. •Focus on innovation •Seeks stakeholder engagement to innovate safe, environmentally friendly products and processes. •Advocates good citizenship to maximise profits and increase employee attraction and retention. |
Transformation The sustaining corporation •Reinterprets the nature of the corporation to an integral self renewing element of the whole society in its ecological context. |
Value
destroyers
Value
limiters
Value
conservers
Value
creators
Sustainable
business
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