Change Management for Sustainability: Driving Organizational Transformation through SDG Adoption

Abstract

The importance of sustainability is a principle that is rapidly becoming extremely crucial in any organization throughout the globe as an ethical and strategic need. Introduction of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the corporation strategies is associated with far reaching change management practices that will ensure the organizational culture, processes, and relations with the stakeholders are sensitive of the sustainability vision. The author of this paper will discuss the application of change management to adopt transformations that are inclined towards sustainability in organizations. The study takes the mixed format where literature review, case analysis and interview questions concerning specialists on the SDG adoption implementation focus are adopted in the fight to address the points, issues and the advantages of the implementation of the SDG. The evidence shows that effective sustainability integration will be based on an articulate leadership commitment, employee involvement, and responsive organizational systems to internal and external demands of sustainable practices. The practical issues are the imprecision of SDG priority indicators across sectors and the impossibility to measure the long-term effectiveness, and the next steps in research should be to establish the standardized guidelines of the SDG-based change management and determine the influence of the digital transformation on the sustainable organizational change.