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To achieve impact, academics need to create personal impact development plans (PIDPs), focused on what and on whom to have an impact and the necessary competencies to do so. This article in Business & Society introduces the concept of PIDPs—including why they’re needed, their content, activities, and the role of university leaders in their successful implementation.

Download the free research report from AACSB and SAGE Publishing which contains an action plan for business schools to produce research that has real-world impact.

This report includes three common components of research that creates societal impact and a five-part roadmap that schools can use to engrain societal impact goals throughout their research efforts.

In this webinar, Financial Times journalist Andrew Jack led a discussion with Dr. Renate Meyer, Dr. Maura Scott, Dr. Usha Haley, and Mike Taylor as they analyzed the issue of societal impact within Business and Management. Participants discussed what impact is, why we should strive for it, how to achieve it, and how to measure it.

In this new edition of Power, Politics, and Organizational Change by David Buchanan and Richard Badham, find the chapter It Is Different for Women. In this excerpt, they explore the degree of gender differences in positions of power and explain why women are under-represented in personal, organizational, and institutional practices.

This excerpt from Employee Engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the lens of gender. See key ways in which gender overlaps with CSR at both the organizational and institutional level.

Do women promote other women? This study in the Journal of Management investigates the question through the lens of gender role theory and managerial discretion. It explores the influence of women CEOs on gender representation in the top management team (TMT) and the role of managerial discretion at the individual, organizational, and task environment levels.

This research in the Journal of Marketing Research documents systematic gender performance differences (GPD) at a top business school using a unique administrative data set and survey of students. Read the full article to see their findings (which did show deviations), their discussion of and test for different reasons to explain this, and several important implications of these findings for business schools and for society.

In this Sage Video, Women & Leadership: The Case of HackNY, Diana Navarro, HackNY fellow, discusses her experience and challenges as a woman in a STEM field.

This excerpt from Gender and Leadership by Gary N. Powell includes practical steps toward achieving a workplace in which all employees can reach their leadership potential and ends with a call for research that focuses on practices that contribute to the shattering of the glass ceiling.

This chapter from Women and Leadership by Lisa DeFrank-Cole and Sherylle J. Tan includes definitions of inequality and discrimination, organizational barriers to leadership, how intersectionality applies to an individual, and a framework for promoting gender equity.

Blaise Simqu of Sage and Barbara Ritter of Jacksonville University discuss the critical role of academic research and publishing in business school efforts toward societal impact goals.

In this new edition of Studying Leadership by Doris Schedlitzki and Gareth Edwards, find a chapter on Leadership, Ethics and Toxicity. This chapter discusses the relationship between leadership and ethics, responsibility, leadership and toxicity, sustainability, altruism, and authenticity.

From Debbie Haski-Leventhal’s Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: A Holistic Approach to Responsible and Sustainable Business, you can find this chapter on responsible leadership. It includes a case study on Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, and the importance of leadership for strategic CSR.

While virtual working became the norm for many organizations since March 2020, we know little about its impact on managerial behavior. This article in California Management Review presents the results of three surveys conducted before and during lockdown to understand what changed.

In the new edition of Managing Diversity by Michalle E. Mor Barak, this sample chapter contains an overview of diversity legislation in a global perspective. Here you can see legislation related to equity and fairness in employment around the world.

In this new edition of Coaching and Mentoring: Theory and Practice by Bob Garvey and Paul Stokes, find a chapter on Coaching and Mentoring and Diversity. This chapter takes a critical perspective on the issue of diversity and its relationship to coaching and mentoring.

Through a case study of khwajasiras, a community of male-to-female transgender people in Pakistan, the authors of this article in Human Relations explain how competing and conflicting body ideals of hyper-eroticism, spirituality, and hybridity set by these regimes, allow khwajasiras to transgress the binary gender norm.

This special issue of Organization contributes to ongoing efforts worldwide to decolonise management and organisational knowledge. It brings together a set of papers which advance different decolonising projects and grapple with the nuances of what it means to ‘do’ decolonising in a diversity of empirical and epistemic settings.

This article from Group & Organization Management integrates insights from two complementary perspectives on leadership and diversity—inclusive leadership and leadership for diversity mindsets—to advance a more integrative perspective on how team leadership can stimulate both inclusion and synergy from diversity.

An article in AACSB Insights by Maureen Adams, publisher for Business at Sage, on creating curricula that reflect the complexity—and, some believe, the social responsibility—of the modern business world.

As well as these resources, see how Sage is undertaking work within Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to build a company that is more equitable and representative of the communities we serve and of which we are part.

This business case involves the charges that Oracle Corporation was facing from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and from stakeholders of the corporation that alleged gender, pay, and reverse discrimination. It examines different types of discrimination and explores ways to minimize gender and pay discrimination in an organization.

This chapter from the new edition of Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development by authors Robert N. Lussier and John R. Hendon discusses ethics and common ethical issues that managers face in business, reviews the concepts of diversity and inclusion, and ends with strategies you can use to recruit and hire a diverse workforce.

In this excerpt from The Cultural Mindset: Managing People Across Cultures, author Afsaneh Nahavandi defines diversity and its challenges and opportunities, outlines the research and data, compares global approaches, considers the historical contexts, and details organizational responses to diversity.

In Business, Ethics and Society, author John G. Cullen writes about Business as a Social Good. In this excerpt, he details the key benefits that business brings to society, various approaches that comprise the field of business and society, and ‘populism’ and what it means for business.

Lisa Spiller starts her new book, Selling & Sales Management, with the chapter Introducing Ethical Relationship Selling. In this chapter, learn how to employ ethical behavior in selling and review an ‘ethics in action’ section with a case study, further resources, and more.

This chapter, Ethically Engaging and Empowering Employees, is from the third edition of Denis Collins and Patricia Kanashiro’s new text, Business Ethics: Best Practices for Designing and Managing Ethical Organizations. The authors discuss the benefits of employee engagement and the different ways to ethically engage employees with their work.

In this 22-question self-assessment, taken from Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach, Fifth Edition by Craig E. Johnson, you can gage how you relate to cultures in different parts of the world.

Taken from the Sage Handbook of Marketing Ethics, this chapter looks at the ethical issues involved in marketing to the LGBT+ community, with a review of literature and suggestions of areas for future research.

In this post, you can find free mini cases from Colin Combe’s new book, Introduction to Global Sustainable Management, which are tied closely to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and offer insight into how sustainable management can tackle some of the most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges.

One of the themes of David Beirman’s Tourism Crises and Destination Recovery is environmental crises. In this excerpt he explores the theme and includes case studies on topics such as the 2020 Australian bush fires and the threat to the Great Barrier Reef.

This chapter from Sustainable Marketing by Mark Peterson highlights important topics for sustainable business practices — especially those related to new ventures led by entrepreneurs. It includes green opportunities, pathways to sustainable business, and a number of real-world case studies.

Find the full chapter on Sustainable Management in the new edition of Oliver Laasch’s Principles of Management: Practicing Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability. In this chapter he explores the rise of sustainable development, its tools, and how to manage the triple bottom line.

This excerpt from the new edition of Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice describes how to manage ethically and sustainability. The authors review CSR, corporate greening, making business sustainable, and greenwashing.

This chapter from Strategic Management, Ninth Edition by Richard Lynch, examines the importance of having a green strategy, how an organization changes as it adopts one, and the potential implications and impact.