A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Employee Activism.

This article, titled "A Leader's Guide to Navigating Employee Activism," discusses the challenges faced by leadership teams in engaging with employee activism on various issues such as sustainability, diversity, and supply chain ethics. The authors present a taxonomy of leadership responses to activism, ranging from obliviousness to proactive engagement, and emphasize the importance of dialogic engagement and stimulating activism. They also introduce the ACT IF framework, which considers factors such as authority, concern, theory of change, identity, and the field to guide leaders in their response to employee activism. The article concludes with recommendations for leaders, including acknowledging biases, engaging with curiosity, and incorporating activist intentions into strategic planning. [Extracted from the article]