Ubuntu and Responsible Leadership

African Ethics for Sustainable Development
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-43464-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in African Philosophy

This book re-imagines responsible leadership through Ubuntu ethics. It anchors responsibility as a foundational moral category in Ubuntu thinking. It shows how this theory can be applied to the Sustainable Development Goals. In doing so, it demonstrates the profound practical contribution African philosophy can make to humanity’s most urgent contemporary challenges.

The book develops a systematic Ubuntu moral anthropology, grounding human dignity in the capacity for empathy. It then shows how genuine, responsible leadership emerges from the convergence of Ubuntu and a threefold responsibility. Ubuntu is understood here as both an empathic capacity and a cultivated virtue. The threefold responsibility involves recognising umuntu (human dignity), realising oneself through moral self-cultivation, and building community. The book argues that contemporary leadership failures stem from three gaps: the absence of a robust moral anthropology, the neglect of responsibility as a foundational moral category, and the individualisation of leadership and ethics. It then applies this framework in two ways. First, to management education, through the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education. Second, to four Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education, Gender Equality, Reduced Inequalities, and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

This book offers an important alternative to prevailing Euro-American leadership frameworks. It will be essential reading for researchers across business, education, sustainable development, philosophy, and African studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Molefe, Motsamai

Muade, Elphus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Afrikanische Philosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  1. Ubuntu—Human Dignity, The Good Life, and Collective Obligation 2. Ubuntu and Responsibility 3. Ubuntu and Leadership: A Vision of Responsible Leadership 4. Ubuntu Ethics and Responsible Management: PRME, the Triple Context, and Responsible Leadership 5. Ubuntu Responsible Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Motsamai Molefe is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa. He is the Chair of Department of Intra-Africa Trade and Investment and Program Director for the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration and Master of Business Administration.

Elphus Muade is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.