Probing alignment of personal and organisational values for sustainability: An assessment of barrett's organisational consciousness model
| Autor: | Lindsay Berg, Paul Upham, Rita Klapper |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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human resources
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| Zdroj: | Klapper, R, Berg, L & Upham, P 2020, ' Probing alignment of personal and organisational values for sustainability : An assessment of barrett's organisational consciousness model ', Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 12, no. 18, 7584 . https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187584 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 7584, p 7584 (2020) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 18 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12187584 |
| Popis: | To what extent are the values of employees and employers aligned in the context of sustainability and how might this be assessed? These are the main research questions in a case study involving a Swedish Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) with ambitions to become more &lsquo sustainable&rsquo The wider context of the paper is the alignment of managerial and employee values for organisational sustainability. Specifically, the study applies and assesses Barrett&rsquo s concept of Organisational Consciousness as a level-based approach to sustainability values, which we argue is based on an integration of Maslow&rsquo s hierarchy of needs and Wilber&rsquo s Integral metatheory. Quantifying the incidence of references to various values elicited in interviews, the study demonstrates: the limited salience of Barrett&rsquo s themes (&lsquo attributes&rsquo ) for employees the divergent perspectives in participants&rsquo personal and organisational lives. While normatively affirming Barrett&rsquo s overall approach, we observe that most organisations are likely to be a considerable distance from Barrett&rsquo s higher levels. How one interprets this is debatable: it may be concluded that Barrett&rsquo s framework is overambitious or that organisations need to: (i) broaden their understanding of sustainability and (ii) nurture alignment between personal and organisational values. |
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