Dear Colleagues,

Corporate sustainability has emerged as an important area of study lately. It searches to contribute to a balance among the economic, social, and environmental areas of business activities with a strong focus on how to meet stakeholders’ interests. Some companies do not engage in corporate sustainability as an end in itself ―as integrated in corporate day-to-day functioning (does not walk its talk)―but as a means to an end―easily decoupled from corporate day-to-day functioning (i.e., public image, green and ethics washing). However, corporate sustainability must be definitively grounded on ethics to develop fair relationships with stakeholders. Thus, drawing on the 17 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, corporate sustainability should not ignore the promotion of aspects such as justice, responsible production, decent work, gender equality, good health, and well-being, among others, which lead businesses to truly consider stakeholders’ interests. In line with these arguments, employees, as important stakeholders not to be ignored by corporations, must be considered ends in themselves and not as means to achieve corporate goals. In doing so, corporate sustainability should promote high levels of employee satisfaction, including happiness and well-being. Furthermore, inasmuch as true corporate sustainability leads employees to adopt a sense of purpose and put ethics into practice, human flourishing can emerge and thus employee satisfaction, happiness, and well-being as well. This Special Issue hence welcomes papers on how corporate sustainability and ethics can lead to higher levels of satisfaction among employees, which includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Integrating employees in the corporation’s purpose and employee satisfaction;
• Employees’ perceptions of corporate ethics and employee satisfaction;
• Corporate sustainability, sense of purpose, and employee satisfaction;
• Ethics approaches (utilitarian, virtue, social contract) to corporate sustainability and people management;
• Corporate sustainability, ethics, and human flourishing;
• Ethical culture, ethical climate, and employee happiness, well-being, and satisfaction;
• Sustainable practices and employee happiness, well-being, and satisfaction;
• Corporate sustainability and Generation X, Y, and Z employee satisfaction.

Dr. Pablo Ruiz-Palomino
Prof. Dr. Rafael Morales-Sánchez
Dr. Ricardo Martínez-Cañas
Guest Editors

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• integrated and decoupled (corporate sustainability and ethics)
• ethical climate and culture
• people-focused orientation and practices
• employee satisfaction
• workplace happiness and well-being
• sense of purpose