Coherency Management: An Alternative to Csr in a Changing World

This book presents a new approach to corporate responsibility based on the concept of coherency, permitting better understanding and management of the conflicting forces that strive to create value across the stakeholder spectrum. In doing so, it provides an alternative to the limited and ineffective role currently played by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and offers an approach more in line with the needs of a sustainable society. Hilliard introduces several new concepts in management philosophy and presents an innovative and original framework for managing organizational responsibilities in a coherent manner. Ivan Hilliard is Associate Professor at Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain. He received his PhD from Universidad Europea de Madrid. He has taught various aspects of business management for over ten years and his main research interests revolve around the field of CSR. Part I: Identifying the Limitations for Modern Management Chapter 1: The Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility Chapter 2: The Expansive Business - Understanding Organizational Interconnectivity Chapter 3: Organizational Autocracy Chapter 4: Stakeholder Politics Chapter 5: Wasted Resources and Lost Opportunities in Being Responsible Chapter 6: Reassessing Individual Contribution to Organizational Success Chapter 7: Organizational Structures and Objectives Chapter 8: Organizational Incoherency Part II: The Tool Set for Coherent Management Chapter 9: The Coherency Framework Chapter 10: Reassessing the Inputs that Drive Value Chapter 11: Reverse Engineering for Strategic Coherency - Looking to the Future to Organize for the Present Chapter 12: Systems Theory Feedback for Operational Coherency Chapter 13: Pillar Measurements - Evaluating Coherency Pillars Chapter 14: The 360 Organizational Analysis - Producing a Coherent Whole