Overview
This book provides an authoritative, evidence-based understanding of the implications of climate change for organisations and offers valuable insights into how to craft and embed a sustainable purpose. The book draws upon the newly emerging cadre of ‘purpose professionals’ who are charged with shifting their organisation from being shareholder-driven to stakeholder-driven through the development and implementation of organisational purpose. It represents a unique collaboration between world-leading climate scientists and management experts, explaining in clear terms how organisations have been implicated in climate change, and the consequences of failing to act now. Based on science, it sets out the case for organisations to effect a radical shift away from a shareholder imperative to become purpose-driven, and provides actionable, evidence-based insights into how to achieve change successfully. In the first chapters, climate scientists outline the key scientific evidence about how the Earth’s climate has changed in the past 100 years, and use case studies to explain how this will affect policy, the public, and organisations across different geographical regions and sectors. Next, organisational experts explain the regulatory context and policy drivers for the shift to organisational purpose. We then focus on organisational actions and priorities, drawing on latest research findings to explain what purpose is, and how to lead change effectively to overcome the obstacles to becoming purpose-led. Written with a practitioner readership in mind, this book is an invaluable resource for senior leaders, corporate social responsibility practitioners, policymakers, and business and management students studying modules in purpose-driven leadership and climate change as well as a wider lay readership.
Full Product Details
Author: Katie Bailey ,
Katie Manning
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.630kg
ISBN: 9781032898964
ISBN 10: 1032898968
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 30 October 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
""By bringing purpose scholarship and climate scholarship together, the editors of this unique and important book offer help and hope to business organisations seeking to solve some of the most important challenges facing our world today and in the future."" - Professor Christopher Michaelson, author of Is Your Work Worth It? ""This ground-breaking work on the importance of organisational purpose and workplace culture is full of key insights that will help and support organisations through times of change."" - Nita Clarke OBE, Director, Involvement and Participation Association ""Balancing social, environmental and financial capital is the only way forward. As an entrepreneur, who has the privilege of leading a pioneering business that was born to deliver on this change, I highly recommend The Purpose-Driven Organisation in Times of Climate Crisis. Delivering purpose with authenticity, meaning and substance is worthwhile, rewarding and of paramount importance. This book brings to life the issues we face, and highlights the actions we all can take to make a lasting difference."" - John Steel, CEO, Cafédirect ""This timely and necessary book 'joins the dots' between the overwhelming evidence of climate crisis and the need for organisations to respond to this crisis, with renewed purpose and commitment. There is plenty here for leaders to think about and act on."" -Stefan Stern, Former FT columnist and Visiting Professor, Bayes Business School
""By bringing purpose scholarship and climate scholarship together, the editors of this unique and important book offer help and hope to business organisations seeking to solve some of the most important challenges facing our world today and in the future."" - Professor Christopher Michaelson, author of Is Your Work Worth It? ""This ground-breaking work on the importance of organisational purpose and workplace culture is full of key insights that will help and support organisations through times of change."" - Nita Clarke OBE, Director, Involvement and Participation Association
""By bringing purpose scholarship and climate scholarship together, the editors of this unique and important book offer help and hope to business organisations seeking to solve some of the most important challenges facing our world today and in the future."" - Professor Christopher Michaelson, author of Is Your Work Worth It? ""This ground-breaking work on the importance of organisational purpose and workplace culture is full of key insights that will help and support organisations through times of change."" - Nita Clarke OBE, Director, Involvement and Participation Association ""Balancing social, environmental and financial capital is the only way forward. As an entrepreneur, who has the privilege of leading a pioneering business that was born to deliver on this change, I highly recommend The Purpose-Driven Organisation in Times of Climate Crisis. Delivering purpose with authenticity, meaning and substance is worthwhile, rewarding and of paramount importance. This book brings to life the issues we face, and highlights the actions we all can take to make a lasting difference."" - John Steel, CEO, Cafédirect
Author Information
Katie Bailey is Professor of Leadership and HRM at Northumbria University and Emerita Professor of Work and Employment at King’s College London. She is a widely published, international award-winning scholar, focusing on meaningful work, employee engagement, temporality at work, and human resource management. She was the lead editor of Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice (2013, Routledge) and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work (2019) as well as the lead author of Strategic Human Resource Management (2nd Ed., 2018). Katie Manning is Lecturer in Climate Change, Business, and Society in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, UK. Her work focuses on cross-disciplinary, and systems approaches to climate change, drawing on the political, economic, and social dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation. Katie received her PhD from the University of Oxford, looking at the role of human adaptation to past climatic change and, having worked in the field of palaeoclimatology for over a decade, has more recently shifted her attention to the challenge of contemporary and future climate change.
