Sustainable Leadership in European Business Environment

Abstract

Sustainability leadership is a strategy approach that gives direction, alignment, and commitment while dealing with social, environmental and economic concerns in order to produce a better society. The focus of the paper is to highlight the sustainable leadership in the European corporate setting. To achieve this aim, two objectives have been formulated. The first objective is to ascertain the importance of integrating sustainability measures in organizations and the second one is to illustrate the connection between sustainable behaviours and sustainability values among managers. The current research paper focuses on conducting a statistical analysis of data gathered from the Sustainable Leadership in Europe Report. The data, deemed pertinent to the study, was accumulated, consolidated, and evaluated using Microsoft Excel and SPSS Statistical Software to derive conclusions aligned with the research objectives. To summarize the results, it seems that companies in Europe have implemented the sustainability measure of identify sustainability risks & opportunities the most, while the last measure of performance measurement and reporting has the lowest implementation percentage across all countries. Also, I found a strong and direct connection between the relationship between the self-identification with sustainable behaviors and sustainability values for managers. The reason choosing to do this article is that sustainable leadership is a current topic and probably those interested in this topic will find this valuable, especially PhD students and other people who want to learn more about this subject. Overall, the article contributes to the growing body of research on sustainable leadership and provides practical insights that can be applied in the European corporate setting. The intention to improve the statistical analysis and gather up-to-date and relevant data for all European Union countries in future studies further emphasizes the importance and relevance of this topic.