Beyond Urgency: Expanding, Leveraging, and Renewing Academic Sustainability Management Actions
This proposed Professional Development Workshop is a follow-on to the Urgent Academic Sustainability Management Actions session that was successfully conducted as the ONE lead-off PDW at the 2014 Academy of Management meetings. That session attracted 40 attendees from multiple Academy divisions and interest groups and resulted in numerous small group discussions and a lengthy list of "urgent academic sustainability management" ideas and actions, which attendees were asked to consider for implementation after that session. The proposed PDW for the Academy 2015 meetings will expand, leverage, and renew those efforts in several ways. First, attendees from more Academy divisions and interest groups will be invited to participate in the session, going beyond "the usual suspects", to connect with any Academy members (and other meeting attendees) who have a sustainability action interest. Second, all attendees (which include nearly all of last year's session discussion leaders with a few additional co-organizers) will be asked to focus on the implementation and evaluation (including measurement, renewal, and communication) of both urgent sustainability actions from last year and those identified this year. Third, and related to the overall conference theme of "opening governance", both new and returning attendees will be encouraged to identify ways that multi-stakeholder joint actions could help advance progress on a selected set of urgent academic sustainability actions and to commit to monitoring, measuring, communicating, and upgrading the results of those actions. These actions could include various strategies to work with multiple Academy stakeholders to increase the Academy's overall positive sustainability impacts.