Management Systems and Performance Frameworks for Sustainability

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Faith-driven quality and sustainability management

7.1 Introduction

In an era dominated by scepticism of political structures, financial systems, the exponential growth of crypto currencies and attempts to monetise charitable activities has created a dearth of trust in civic institutions which may seem as a contemporaneous phenomenon but also plagued early democracies. Aristotle, in his writings on the nature of man in Politics, surmised that rational men have an invested interest in the greater good of society that transcends the imperative of wealth creation:

Again, how immeasurably greater is the pleasure, when a man feels a thing to be his own; for surely the love of self is a feeling implanted by nature and not ...