Responsible Leadership

Nicola M. Pless is Professor of Positive Business at the University of South Australia, and the recipient of the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award. Dr Pless is a former senior executive whose work focuses on the ideation and development of integrative responsible leadership. Thomas Maak is Professor of Leadership and Director of the Centre for Workplace Leadership at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has worked extensively with companies and governments at the interface of ethics, governance, and leadership.

1. Introduction: The ongoing quest for responsible leadership in business Part I: What is responsible leadership? 2. Why ethics is at the heart of leadership 3. Responsible leadership—A relational approach 4. Inclusive leadership for our global era 5. Reflections on the study of responsible leadership 6. Responsible leadership and societal purpose: Reframing the purpose of business as pursuing good dividends 7. Values, authenticity, and responsible leadership 8. Responsible leadership as virtuous leadership 9. A compass for decision making 10. Responsible leadership: A shift from individual leaders to leader relations 11. (Ir)responsible followership Part II: What makes a responsible leader? 12. Different approaches toward doing the right thing: Mapping the responsibility orientations of leaders 13. Exploring the paradoxical nature of responsible leadership 14. Servant leadership and virtues from an Aristotelian viewpoint 15. Moral intelligence: Leadership in a world of contested values 16. Developing responsible leadership: The case of Fabio Barbosa Part III: Responsible leadership in and across cultures 17. Leading responsibly across cultures 18. Towards responsible leadership through reconciling dilemmas 19. Leading responsibly in the Asian-led digital age: Towards a theory of virtuous responsible leadership 20. Responsible leadership in context: Four frames and two nations Part IV: How to develop responsible leadership 21. Principle-based leadership: Lessons from the Caux Round Table 22. Responsible leadership and transformative cross-sector partnering 23. The development of responsible leaders: A case study of a responsible leader in Colombia 24. The Ulysses Program and the development of globally responsible leaders in a VUCA world 25. Dialogarchitecture: An artistic co-creation process to enable responsible leadership learning and implementation Part V: Conclusion 26. Responsible leadership: New directions in the 2020s and beyond 27. Responsible leadership and the micro-foundations of CSR: Introducing a measure of CSR quality