Examining sustainable leadership in apparel industry.

Abstract

This thematic paper adopts Honeybee’s 23 sustainable leadership practices and examine in Thai apparel industry. Honeybee framework has 23 sustainable leadership elements, which are developing people, labor relations, retaining staff, succession planning, valuing staff, CEO and top team, ethical behavior, long and short term perspective, organizational change, financial markets orientation, responsibility for environment, social responsibility (CSR), stakeholders, vision, decision making, team orientation, culture, knowledge sharing, trust, innovation, staff engagement, and quality. Data collection is adopted from Avery & Bergstiener (2010), which obtained research from 50 companies in apparel industry. Honeybee Sustainable Leadership allows organization to study with a framework. These principles will help the organization to progress and maintain in the long run.