Climate change and environmental issues have become recurring topics in current debates, leading to a heightened awareness of the need to preserve the planet and its species. To address these challenges, governments, businesses, social movements, and NGOs are actively engaging in a transition towards sustainable and nature-friendly lifestyles. In this critical context, academic research plays a crucial role by proposing concrete and applicable solutions to help managers confront these issues. The Covid-19 pandemic has further emphasized systemic dysfunctions, the interdependence of value chain actors, and resource scarcity. As a result, this special edition gives voice to researchers in organizational behavior to explore their potential contribution in the fight against climate change and environmental crises. Three research themes are prioritized. Firstly, they delve into the initiative of defining change, introducing transformations, and evaluating their impacts at various levels of analysis (individuals, groups, organizations, institutions). Scientific and cultural approaches are studied to better understand events related to this transformative period, especially in sectors like agriculture where sustainability is crucial. Secondly, the organized action in response to climate change and the environment is examined through public policies, corporate self-regulations, and choices regarding sustainable development. Ensuring alignment between discourse and actions becomes essential for decision-makers, raising questions about the radicality or reformist approach to policies. Lastly, the third theme explores the mentalities and behaviors of actors facing environmental transformations. In-depth research is conducted on representations and emotions related to climate change, which can generate resilient or traumatic behaviors. Reactions such as denial and organizational hypocrisy are also studied, as well as the engagement of active groups in reflection and knowledge creation. This special edition will welcome articles using different research methods and approaches to foster a better understanding of the challenges linked to climate change and the environment, aiming to promote effective and sustainable actions for a future that respects our planet.
Inclusion has become a central issue for organizations in terms of CSR, employer image and management (Kele et al., 2022). In this special issue, we will value all types of theoretical or empirical contributions, quantitative, qualitative or both. Several levels of analysis, micro-, meso- and macro-organizational (Adamson et al, 2021) can be proposed, the goal being to have a global but also fine understanding of the inclusive organization. First of all, contributions around the conditions that foster a sense of inclusion are expected. A second type of contribution is expected in a comparison of the concept of inclusion and organizational behaviors as well as the social performance of organizations. The contributions can also, to some extent, be articulated around the power dynamics at play around the inclusive organization. Through this special issue, we hope to promote research that evokes the discourse and practices of inclusion, but also to show how inclusive politics takes shape within organizational contexts and to what extent the integration of different singularities is feasible. We hope that this special issue will help answer many of the questions listed below: 1. How has the shift from diversity management to inclusion changed organizational perceptions, behaviors and practices? 2. How is the "all-inclusive" discourse relevant and what reality(s) does it represent? 3. What form(s) do the discourses and practices of inclusion take in different organizational, sectoral and cultural contexts? 4. How does the concept of inclusion question the notion of power within organizations? 5. How does inclusion manifest itself in different contexts for different singularities? 6. What are the paradoxes of inclusion? What are the contours of the exclusion/inclusion equation?
Health Behaviour, Personal and Organisational Health in the Age of Covid 19
Ann, Langley ; Anne-Laure,GATIGNON TURNAU
Ce numéro spécial a pour vocation de regrouper des contributions autour des enjeux de santé, en avoir une vue d’ensemble et réfléchir à la pertinence de structurer le champ des comportements organisationnels autour du thème de la santé. Les contribut...
Climate change and environmental issues have become recurring topics in current debates, leading to a heightened awareness of the need to preserve the planet and its species. To address these challenges, governments, businesses, social movements, and NGOs are actively engaging in a transition towards sustainable and nature-friendly lifestyles. In this critical context, academic research plays a crucial role by proposing concrete and applicable solutions to help managers confront these issues. The Covid-19 pandemic has further emphasized systemic dysfunctions, the interdependence of value chain actors, and resource scarcity. As a result, this special edition gives voice to researchers in organizational behavior to explore their potential contribution in the fight against climate change and environmental crises. Three research themes are prioritized. Firstly, they delve into the initiative of defining change, introducing transformations, and evaluating their impacts at various levels of analysis (individuals, groups, organizations, institutions). Scientific and cultural approaches are studied to better understand events related to this transformative period, especially in sectors like agriculture where sustainability is crucial. Secondly, the organized action in response to climate change and the environment is examined through public policies, corporate self-regulations, and choices regarding sustainable development. Ensuring alignment between discourse and actions becomes essential for decision-makers, raising questions about the radicality or reformist approach to policies. Lastly, the third theme explores the mentalities and behaviors of actors facing environmental transformations. In-depth research is conducted on representations and emotions related to climate change, which can generate resilient or traumatic behaviors. Reactions such as denial and organizational hypocrisy are also studied, as well as the engagement of active groups in reflection and knowledge creation. This special edition will welcome articles using different research methods and approaches to foster a better understanding of the challenges linked to climate change and the environment, aiming to promote effective and sustainable actions for a future that respects our planet.
Inclusion has become a central issue for organizations in terms of CSR, employer image and management (Kele et al., 2022). In this special issue, we will value all types of theoretical or empirical contributions, quantitative, qualitative or both. Several levels of analysis, micro-, meso- and macro-organizational (Adamson et al, 2021) can be proposed, the goal being to have a global but also fine understanding of the inclusive organization. First of all, contributions around the conditions that foster a sense of inclusion are expected. A second type of contribution is expected in a comparison of the concept of inclusion and organizational behaviors as well as the social performance of organizations. The contributions can also, to some extent, be articulated around the power dynamics at play around the inclusive organization. Through this special issue, we hope to promote research that evokes the discourse and practices of inclusion, but also to show how inclusive politics takes shape within organizational contexts and to what extent the integration of different singularities is feasible. We hope that this special issue will help answer many of the questions listed below: 1. How has the shift from diversity management to inclusion changed organizational perceptions, behaviors and practices? 2. How is the "all-inclusive" discourse relevant and what reality(s) does it represent? 3. What form(s) do the discourses and practices of inclusion take in different organizational, sectoral and cultural contexts? 4. How does the concept of inclusion question the notion of power within organizations? 5. How does inclusion manifest itself in different contexts for different singularities? 6. What are the paradoxes of inclusion? What are the contours of the exclusion/inclusion equation?