Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Management Education

With an expanding awareness of the challenges of sustainability, featured more in the daily news than in higher education textbooks, scholars and faculty have been called to connect their syllabi to the ‘real world’. Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Management Education doesn’t just offer the ‘why’; it offers the ‘how’ through presenting the definition and model of the ‘sustainability mindset’ to help educators frame curricula to facilitate broad and deep systemic learning among current and future leaders.

A sustainability mindset is intended to help individuals analyse complex management challenges and generate truly innovative solutions. The sustainability mindset breaks away from traditional management disciplinary silos by integrating management ethics, entrepreneurship, environmental studies, systems thinking, self-awareness, and spirituality within the dimensional contexts of thinking (knowledge), being (values), and doing (competency).

This book is aimed at professors, faculty members, instructors, teaching assistants, researchers, and doctoral students in higher learning management education programmes. Chapter contributors are all teaching professionals from programmes around the world, who have been doing research and creating curricula, assessments, tools, and more for the students in their classes, and the book will be globally applicable.