Clarify Roles
Description
These resources will help you to translate your company's sustainability commitments into responsibilities that are assigned to appropriate roles and incorporated into personal goal-setting across the business, including the most senior leaders.
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The 8 Responsibilities of Chief Sustainability Officers
A growing number of companies are appointing chief sustainability officers, and there remains a lack of clarity about a CSO’s tasks and accountabilities. This article highlights eight distinct tasks and a visual framework that can help CSOs - and other senior leaders - ensure that each responsibility receives sufficient attention, effort, and allocation of resources.
Next-Generation Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Jobs
As industries embrace and embed sustainability into their planning, processes, and culture, a new imperative has emerged to transition the role and skills - and job description - of CSR and sustainability professionals from an operational to a strategic focus. This briefing provides ideas and examples that will help you to inform and adjust job description updates and performance and professional development plans, and will be particularly helpful for sustainability practitioners and recruitment professionals.
Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation
Kevin Wilhelm's book "Making Sustainability Stick" draws on his experiences working to make sustainability relevant to employees across 75 companies. The book offers a step-by-step approach that focuses on "how" companies can help make sustainability relevant to their employees. The book also offers a host of implementation checklists, resources, and exercises at the end of each chapter.
The Role of Human Resource Management in Corporate Social Responsibility
This is a useful resource if you are looking to partner with HR in your company. This guide provides helpful background research on the connection between sustainability and a variety of HR functions, including recruitment, onboarding, and employee development. It also lays out ten steps that HR managers can take to support embedding sustainability within their organisation, along with examples from leading companies.
Making Sustainability Count: How to embed sustainability in leaders’ objectives
Embedding sustainability into business strategy and operations depends on sustainability manifesting within the objectives and incentives of senior leaders. This report explores three aspects of objective-setting that will help you to ensure that sustainability is effectively integrated throughout your business: how priorities are set, how work gets done, and how leaders are rewarded.
Chapter 8 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective
This will be a valuable resource if your organisation is early on in its efforts to embed sustainability and is looking for ways to draft more precise and encompassing job descriptions. It will help you understand how your responsibilities may change over time as sustainability becomes more embedded at your organisation. The chapter is based on a 2013 study by authors Kathleen Miller from the Boston Consulting Group and George Serafeim from Harvard University.
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