Being an Impact Champion

Social consciousness is neither corporate social responsibility (CSR) nor public relations but a mindset that understands and accepts the interconnectedness of an organization's economic, social, and natural environments. Socially conscious organizations come into existence when led by socially conscious managers. This book enables socially conscious managers to become Impact Champions through three pathways to successfully initiate and run socially responsible business innovations, CSR projects, and social entrepreneurial ventures. The book is organized into five parts. The first part sets the context and provides the readers with tools to reflect on contemporary social and environmental issues and orient themselves towards action. To develop the skills necessary to contribute 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 following four parts, the book progresses through three pathways: 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.
About the Author:

Priya Nair Rajeev (Author)
Priya Nair Rajeev is associate professor in Organizational Behavior and heads the Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. Trained in participant-centered 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 and 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 the Organizational Behavior and Human Resources area. She has more than twenty-one 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 and two co-authored books including Indian Cases in Organisational Behaviour published by Pearson (forthcoming). Her areas of interest include managing emotions, leadership and personal growth, social innovation and women in management.

Simy Joy (Author)
Simy Joy holds a PhD from Case Western Reserve University, USA and is a fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK. She served as a faculty member at the University of East Anglia, UK and as a faculty fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), where she was a founding member of the Centre of Excellence for Social Innovation. Her research interests include institutional and organisational sources of inequality, exclusion and injustice; and social innovations, social enterprises, socio-tech enterprises and micro-enterprises that attempt to engender equality, inclusion and justice. Her work has won awards from the Academy of Management, British Academy of Management, Academy of Management Learning & Education Journal, and the Family Firm Institute. Her co-edited and co-authored books include Socio-Tech Innovation: Harnessing Technology for Social Good, Managing for Social Justice: Harnessing Management Theory & Practice for Collective Good, Being an Impact Champion: Enacting Corporate Social Consciousness, and Indian Cases in Organisational Behaviour (forthcoming). Prior to her PhD, Simy Joy worked in the Indian finance sector in the areas of training and development, organizational restructuring, and change management.