Social consciousness is neither corporate social responsibility (CSR) nor public relations but a mindset that understands and accepts the interconnectedness of the economic, social and natural environments that can cause internal disruptions in an organization. Socially conscious organizations do not come to existence without socially conscious managers. The book will enable socially conscious managers to become impact champions through three pathways so that they can successfully initiate and run socially responsible business innovations, CSR projects and social entrepreneurial ventures.
The book is organized into five parts. Part 1 sets the context and provides the readers with tools to reflect on contemporary social and environmental issues and their own personal orientations for action. For developing the skills necessary to be capable of contributing to the triple bottom line, young managers need to deepen their understanding of social problems, developmental issues, threats to the environment and long-standing issues of sustainability and environmental management, all of which are woven into various chapters. In the next four parts, the book progresses through three pathways, namely, socially driven business innovation, CSR, and social entrepreneurship. Being an Impact Champion hopes to instill confidence in new managers to talk about socially and environmentally sensitive issues facing the corporate world and thereby expand their capacity to influence.
Priya Nair Rajeev is associate professor in Organizational Behavior and head, Center of Excellence for Social Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. Trained in participant centred learning from Harvard Business School, she is PhD in management studies from IIT Madras. She is a recipient of the Highly Commended Award 2011 in the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Management and Governance category. She is a gold medallist and university rank holder at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. Earlier, she was the chairperson of Executive Education programs including the satellite campus at Kochi and the chairperson of organizational behaviour and human resources area. She has more than 18 years of research and teaching experience in her field. A prolific trainer, she has conducted several management development programmes for corporates like Reliance Industries, RPG Group, John Deere, Bharat Electronics Limited, Defence Research and Development Organisation, as well as for the Ministry of Ayush, Indian Army and Naval Officers Wives Association. She has to her credit several published articles in international journals. Her areas of interest include managing emotions, leadership and personal growth, social innovation and women in management.
Simy Joy is faculty fellow, Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources. She holds a PhD from Case Western Reserve University, USA. She has previously worked in the Indian finance sector in the areas of training and development, organizational restructuring and change management, and been a faculty in the organizational behaviour and HR area in University of East Anglia, UK.
She currently works with the Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. Her research focuses on social innovation and social enterprises that target inclusion and empowerment of marginalized and underserved groups and spans public, private and nonprofit sector organizations in India, Africa, the UK and the US. Her research has been published in reputed international journals and has attracted awards from international journals and international bodies such as Academy of Management, British Academy of Management and Family Firm Institute. She is a co-editor of the book
Socio-tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good.
