Tired of trading your life for a paycheck that leaves your soul empty?Are you craving a career where professional growth meets personal fulfilment?Then this book is just the ticket for you. It shows you how to build a thriving career in the Nonprofit sector (NGOs) while serving a larger purpose. With compelling facts and riveting firsthand accounts, Sumathy Krishnan shines a light on the vibrant working culture in NGOs; a culture that embrace diverse skills and offer what m...

Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? offers a critical counterpoint to this received wisdom, challenging some of t...

Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility (CSR) - incorporating corporate responsibility, sustainable development, business ethics, corporate citizenship, business & society and corporate governance - has become a widely taught subject in business schools and practiced in companies around the world. For the first time, there is a comprehensive e-textbook that introduces students and practitioners to CSR theory and practice, looking at the past, present and future. The text begins with defi...

"The Sovereign Individual" by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg is a prophetic masterpiece. Now, Hugo Rowley's insightful study guide takes you on a fast and thought-provoking journey through the key ideas, vocabulary, and practical applications of this groundbreaking work.As the Information Age reshapes our society, economy, and politics, traditional power structures are crumbling. Nation-states find themselves increasingly irrelevant in a world where information ...

Making the most of business ethics requires taking some proactive steps on the part of your business, but lucratively pays off.Business ethics is essential for most businesses operating in today's society. Social responsibility for businesses facilitates relations with clientele and the public in general, but also promotes appropriate relations between coworkers and managers in the workplace. With the growing need for corporate ethics, this book is the most objective book on busine...

Introducing the key concepts in corporate social responsibility, the authors bring together the essential issues relevant to the responsible management of businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government.With detailed coverage and cross-referencing for each concept and over 50 concepts introduced, this guide to both the theory and implementation of CSR and sustainability, provides an indispensable reference for any student of the subject.Key concepts include: account...

Ethical Leadership shines a light on the role of both culture and ethics in organizations by making the issues more transparent, accessible and above all, connected. Business leaders are now accountable for showing that they have the correct ethical policies and culture in place. Andrew Leigh focuses on the fact that ethical culture is manifest in the actual behaviour and attitudes of all staff, rather than in policy documents. His book is full of practical strate...

'Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selecti...

This introductory textbook explores key issues and recent discussions within the field of corporate sustainability and social responsibility, through theoretical and practical perspectives. Written by an international team of experts, the chapters introduce the actors and corporate processes that shape firms' management of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Spanning strategy, communication, changing regulation and governance, the book grapples with critical issues such as a...

The single best description of the inside workings of contemporary universities.Witty and insightful, How Universities Work is destined to be an essential handbook for anyone wanting to understand universities in the United States. John V. Lombardi gives readers an insider’s view of the academy, describing the structure, logic, dynamics, and operational styles of both public and private institutions of higher education.Lombardi defines and describe...

D&I is no longer a passing fad. It’s not about legal compliance or HR box-ticking, in fact diversity and inclusion is a critical factor for success. #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter and the ballooning disparate consequences of Covid-19 on minorities brings renewed emphasis on D&I agendas, and the economic reality that diverse talent is good for business and good for sustainability.In Beyond D&I, Kay Formanek brings her more than twenty years’ experience working with the world’s l...

What is CSR?Can there be a single definition possible?What is CSR anyway?Until, last few decades of twentieth century, there was no explicit mention of the term Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR anywhere, though it was present. So this book will give in-depth overview of the theoretical aspects such as definitions, evolution, and philosophical impetus of the term CSR.