Developing a Sustainability Mindset in Management Education

Kerul Kassel is faculty at Fielding Graduate University, author of The Thinking Executive’s Guide to Sustainability (Business Expert Press, 2014) and has been awarded year-on-year fellowships at Fielding’s Institute for Social Innovation. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and conferences around the world. Isabel Rimanoczy is Convener of the PRME Working Group on the Sustainability Mindset and author of Big Bang Being: Developing the Sustainability Mindset (2014) and Stop Teaching (2016). She is a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute and a Strategic Sustainability Adviser with One Planet Environmental Network.

Developing Sustainability Mindset in Management Education is relevant to students, educators, administrators, and leaders worldwide. It is a thoughtful, insightful, and purposeful book that breaks away from the traditional academic silos to allow educators to teach using systems thinking, self-awareness, and spirituality. The various authors present a re-conceptualization of education philosophies and objectives, new ways of developing a sustainability mindset in management students, and an opportunity to bring students into alignment with the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Margaret A. Goralski, PhD, Coordinator Capstone Business Experiences & Assistant Professor of Strategy, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, USA Over the last decade, business management has been involved in an active debate over several global problems facing humanity. At the center of the debate is the search for engaging leaders in the private sector to support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and The United Nations' Principles for Responsible Management Education. Key to success in this direction is opening the mindset of business leaders to a holistic global view. Developing Sustainability Mindset in Management Education, edited by two visionary researchers, focuses on the essential factor of developing this weltanschauung or world vision mindset and offers both theoretical and practical methods. A remarkable collection of articles by like-minded and engaged researchers from around the world to help prepare leaders for dealing with common problems.Mehdi Majidi, Ph.D., University Professor and international consultant, Sustainable socioeconomic DevelopmentThe book calls for holistic approach to management education that simultaneously addresses the "heads, hands and hearts" of future business leaders and the organizations they will create and/or work for. It also provides evidence and inspirational stories on how the possibility of developing the specific logos, pathos and ethos of sustainable mindset for the new role of business in society, sustainable development and responsible leadership could be turned into reality, both inside and outside the classroom. Milenko Gudić, Co-chair PRME Working Group on Poverty, a Challenge for Management Education.Founding Director, Refoment Consulting and Coaching, Belgrade SerbiaDeveloping "The Sustainability Mindset", what an important idea! We, as a species, are in urgent need of learning for sustainability in order to become native again on this planet. Holistic educational approaches like the ones promoted by this book- learning to know, to do and to be- have enormous potential to foster such learning.Oliver Laasch, Ph.D. Founder of the Center for Responsible Management EducationAssistant Professor in Strategy, Nottingham University Business SchoolIf business education intends to foster global prosperity, then we must be more purposeful about developing the values, attitudes, and beliefs of our students. This book is about doing that. It informs and inspires by drawing on the ideas and experiences of pioneering professors from more than a dozen countries.Dan LeClair, Chief Operating Officer, AACSB

• ForewordIntroduction PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONChapter 1: A Sustainable Mindset Model for Management Education Kerul Kassel, Isabel Rimanoczy, and Shelley Mitchell Chapter 2: Sustainability and the Being Dimension: The heart of the matter Isabel Rimanoczy and Karthyeni SridaranChapter 3: Values, Sustainability, and Implications for Management EducationMarta Sambiase, Silvia M. Russi De Domenico, and Janette Brunstein Chapter 4: Motivation for the Sustainability MindsetAngus Yip Chapter 5: A Value Centric Approach to Eudaimonia (Human Flourishing)Radha SharmaChapter 6: Cosmodern Education: Emotional, Spiritual, and Ecological Literacy to Develop a Sustainability Mindset Javier Collado-RuanoPART II: CURRICULAR EXAMPLES OF EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET WITHIN MANAGEMENT EDUCATIONChapter 7: Experiential Learning Methods for Teaching Entrepreneurship with a Sustainability MindsetHenrietta Onwuegbuzie and Ijeoma Ugwuanyi Chapter 8: Enhancing the Sustainability Mindset Through Real Life Business as a Flourishing Impact Project Amelia Januar Indrajaya Chapter 9: ‘I (do) not care what you think about my ideas’: Navigating Agripreneurship Through Sustainable Learning Processes From A Cross-Cultural Perspective Alexander Tetteh Kwasi NuerChapter 10: Making Sense of Mindfulness in Management EducationCharlie Yang Chapter 11: Holistic Education, Transformative Learning and Sustainability Mindset in a Business School: A Case Study of a Brazilian Jesuit UniversitySoraia Schutel, Janaína Pimenta Lemos Becker, Janaina Audino Chapter 12: Developing a sustainability mindset through service learning Mario Vázquez Maguirre and Consuelo García de la Torre PART III: INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY MINDSET IN PROGRAMMATIC LEARNING GOALSChapter 13: Consciousness-Based Education: Cultivating Sustainable Minds Dennis Heaton and Colin Heaton Chapter 14: Leapfrogging to the Fourth Mission in Higher Education: A New Ghanaian College Creates Sustainability Approaches and Community Engagement Helen Akolgo-Azupogo, Roland Bardy, and Arthur Rubens Chapter 15: Developing The Abilities For Tomorrow: What Liberal Arts Can Contribute To Management Education Mary Grace Neville