Rethinking Leadership

Book description

Presents a view on management ethics that is human-centered, provides insights on its practical implementation and recommendations on how to teach the topic in executive education.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The four perspectives of human centered management: a systemic interrelation
    1. 1.1 The four perspectives
    2. 1.2 Interrelating the four perspectives through multi-stakeholder dialogues
  9. 2 The ethical perspective
    1. 2.1 Introduction: morality, ethics and principles
    2. 2.2 The prerequisites: setting an adequate philosophical agenda
    3. 2.3 Enablers of human centered management
    4. 2.4 The effects
  10. 3 The social perspective
    1. 3.1 Corporate social responsibility
    2. 3.2 Equitability and social justice
    3. 3.3 Inclusiveness
    4. 3.4 Social business and the role of social entrepreneurs
    5. 3.5 Impacts of culture
  11. 4 The economic perspective
    1. 4.1 Market-based approaches to business ethics
    2. 4.2 Impacting the wider environment of markets and society
  12. 5 The institutional perspective
    1. 5.1 Policy agendas
    2. 5.2 Ethics in government and public office
  13. 6 Implementing human centered management
    1. 6.1 Arriving at a consensus on values
    2. 6.2 Ethics codes
    3. 6.3 Ethical obligations and the law
    4. 6.4 Fighting corruption and free riding
  14. 7 Conducting stakeholder relations responsibly
    1. 7.1 The employer–employee relationship
    2. 7.2 Relations with customers and consumers
    3. 7.3 Relations with suppliers and competitors
    4. 7.4 Relations with investors
    5. 7.5 Community relations
    6. 7.6 The natural environment: a multifaceted stakeholder relationship
  15. 8 Moral person, moral leader, moral organization
  16. 9 Recommendations for teaching human centered management
    1. 9.1 A principles-based education on business ethics
    2. 9.2 Two sets of exemplary business ethics curricula
    3. 9.3 Six teaching blocks
  17. Outlook
  18. References
  19. Index

Product information

  • Title: Rethinking Leadership
  • Author(s): Roland Bardy
  • Release date: April 2018
  • Publisher(s): Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781351107150