How Do Corporations Embed Sustainability Across the Organization?

Abstract

Company action to implement sustainable management solutions implicitly assumes that managers and employees are aware of and implement corporate sustainability policies and procedures. However this assumption can be a leap of faith—many employees may be unaware of sustainability issues beyond their immediate work responsibilities. We explore how technical, action, and social learning are used by large corporations to embed sustainability across the organization. We illustrate eight training and development tools with examples drawn from global companies and complement these with deeper insights from companies within the Indian business conglomerate, Tata Group.