Sustainability—balancing social, environmental, and economic factors for shortand long-term performance—is a critical issue for the world and for business. We interviewed key executives at nine of the world’s most “sustainable” companies to examine important issues about their sustainability journeys and the role Human Resources is playing. We confirmed that these companies exhibit first-class sustainability results on a variety of dimensions. We identified a pyramid of seven core qualities of sustainable enterprises that appear to be amenable to managerial intervention, and mapped out the specific HR-related actions to help develop these qualities: inculcating sustainability-oriented values, helping to elicit senior management support for making sustainability central to business strategy; supporting the development of metrics and systems alignment around sustainability; and enabling the organization to achieve broad stakeholder engagement and holistic integration.

Click on these online links to access the complimentary report, slides and Webcast:

“Creating a Sustainable Future” report http://view.fdu.edu/files/amawebcastreport.pdf

“Sustainability: An Evolving Business Paradigm” slides http://view.fdu.edu/files/amawebcastppt.pdf

“Sustainability: An Evolving Business Paradigm” Webcast http://www.amanet.org/editorial/webcast/2007/sustainability.htm


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