Corporate Sustainability and Managerial Competencies
Keywords:
new strategic challenges, corporate sustainability, managerial competencesAbstract
This study deals with sustainability (a challenge to reshape conditions of company operations) and managerial competence principles. First, it provides a comparative review of the relevant and important international literature. In the next step, it summarizes six considerations that contribute mostly to the successful development of managerial competence compliance with sustainability requirements. These six interconnected specific guidelines are a common goal, long-range approach, emotional commitment, opening to the public, innovation and self - organization. Finally, it presents the major issues of the further research. This paper can make a contribution to put sustainable development into practice.
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