As a leader, you need to engage your organisation in the green transition and create the necessary capacity. At the same time, you must balance between the high ambitions and the reality your organisation is facing - including available resources. Because the green transition is an ambitious and broad agenda in Denmark: from the new climate law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to the goal of Denmark becoming a climate-neutral society by 2050.
In a new podcast, CBS Professor Susana Borrás and PhD student Rikke Rønholt Albertsen explain why they believe that public leaders are on their way to playing an even bigger role in the green transformation.
They also talk about the new course "Den grønne omstilling, organisatorisk kapacitet og ledelse" ("The green transition, organisational capacity and leadership in the public sector", taught in Danish 🇩🇰) at Master of Public Governance (MPG), which will help participants understand what green transition means for their organisation, strengthen their leadership of the green transition and understand what capacity their organisation has or lacks to implement green transition initiatives.
"With this subject, we connect the research results from the CAPACITOR project with practice. The project explores how public organisations build their capacity for the green transition. By bringing theory and practice together, we offer participants a unique, new and highly relevant perspective to benefit their management," says Susana Borrás. She adds: "One of the most important points from the research project is the connection between the roles and tasks the public organisation takes on and the resources and processes of the organisation. Public managers need to think about how their organisation can build capacity for the green transition by finding an appropriate connection between roles, resources and processes."
