Friends with benefits: interconnections between environmental sustainability and gender equality
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2023
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Sandhu, S.
Kulik, C.T.
Sanjeewa, P.
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Changing management values and practices for a sustainable future: 36th ANZAM conference, 2023, iss.273, pp.1-18
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Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) (5 Dec 2023 - 7 Dec 2023 : Wellington, New Zealand)
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Environmental sustainability and gender equality are two critical challenges of our time. Unfortunately, these issues are often siloed both within academia and practice. Employing a qualitative case study of an organisation with a formal commitment to both issues, we explore the interconnections between them. Our findings demonstrate that environmental sustainability and gender equality are interconnected and can support each other. But these interconnections do not necessarily start with organisational policies and programs. Instead, interconnections may first manifest in the shared understanding amongst employees and in the organisation’s reputation amongst external stakeholders; only then do they influence organisational policies and programs. Our findings highlight the critical role of internal shared understanding and external reputation in “breathing life” into formal policies and programs.
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Copyright 2023 ANZAM