Over the past few months we have attended three
exciting sustainability conferences that we’d like to share with you: the SIOP
Leading Edge Consortium (LEC), Environmental
Sustainability at Work: Advancing Research, Enhancing Practice; the
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE);
and Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC). These were packed with sessions
that merit reporting, but we will limit ourselves to 1 highlight per conference
– we’ve included links below to their programs, should you want to peruse them
for more detail. This is a rather long blog – it’s been a busy few months!
The SIOP Exchange crew would like to thank the blog's recent guest
blogger and LEading Edge Consortium speaker, Anna Clark, for her time Thursday, August 30. Clark answered
questions and comments from several SIOP members on the topic of environmental sustainability in the workplace as part of the
SIOP Electronic Communications Committee's "Guest Blogger" series.
If you would like to read the questions and answers, view Clark's post here. If you would like to learn more about environmental sustainability at work, including a full presentation by Anna Clark, register for the SIOP Leading Edge Consortium. You can get a full agenda, list of speakers and presentations, and other information on the LEC homepage.
The committee plans to invite more live blogging guests in the coming
months to be available for questions and comments from readers on
various topics important to the I-O community. Stay tuned for more guest
posts!
As a sustainability practitioner, I am glad to facilitate a
discussion today about the value of I-O psychology in embedding sustainability
into organizations, particularly mainstream companies. Based on my six-year practice in
sustainability consulting, and my combined 18 years of experience in management
consulting and communications, I recognize a great need for organizational
development expertise in this arena.
Leadership is the key determinant of whether sustainability becomes
rooted as a core value in any given organization. For sustainability to flourish, it must be
embedded into human resources. Even projects based on good intentions and
credible tools will flounder without engaging influencers and managers at all
levels in the process. The upcoming SIOP
Leading Edge Consortium on
environmental sustainability is a rare opportunity to explore the human element
in all the depth it deserves. As we
exchange ideas for how to use I-O psychology to create a culture of
sustainability, it is helpful to also consider the ways that a burgeoning green
ethos can be acted up and expressed to maximize bottom-line or “triple-bottom
line” benefits.
Join the Virtual Dialogue August
30 with LEC Speaker Anna Clark
The SIOP Electronic Communications Committee will be
hosting a special online guest on the Exchange Thursday, August 30. One of SIOP's 2012 Leading Edge Consortium speakers, Anna
Clark, will be online live from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. CST to answer questions and respond to comments in response to her blog post regarding environmental sustainability in
the workplace. Anyone interested in the topic of environmental sustainability at
work is invited to read the post, which will be published Thursday morning, and leave comments or questions for Clark.
The summer is flying by, and we’re hoping that many SIOP members have headed to the Academy of Management Meetings in Boston this week. The program is loaded with sustainability-related sessions! Whereas the notion of environmental sustainability made its debut at SIOP in 2009, it had been lively within AOM for more than a decade prior. The online program brings up the following sessions with use of ‘sustainability’ as a search term: 9 Professional Development Workshops on Friday and Saturday, the ONE (Organizations and the Natural Environment) doctoral consortium on Saturday, 9 sessions on Sunday, 39 sessions on Monday, and 27 sessions on Tuesday.
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