The Management for Global Sustainability Opportunity: Integrating Responsibility, Sustainability, and Spirituality

• Main Authors: Mària SJ, Joseph F, Sroufe, Robert
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: Responsibility; Sustainability; Spirituality; Theory U; Jesuit Tradition; Management Education.
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/jmgs/vol10/iss1/8; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/jmgs/article/1156/viewcontent/the_management_for_global_sustainability_opportunity_integrating_responsibility_sustainability_and_spirituality.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This study reflects the necessity to incorporate spirituality into business practices while building on a foundation of responsibility and sustainability. The articulation between these three practices is necessary to respond to the three fundamental divides or wounds that our present world lives on: the wounds between the person and society; between the person and nature; and between the person and the best version of themselves. The Research Question guiding this paper is: How can responsibility sustainability and spirituality be understood and interconnected to address, from a Management perspective, the three fundamental wounds of our world? We answer it by comparing two conceptual worlds: Theory U, and the Jesuit Tradition. After presenting both conceptual worlds and comparing them, we discuss how they contribute to a better understanding of the relationships between responsibility, sustainability, and spirituality. We then propose practical implications for Management Education.