Transformational Maturity

Bridging Adaptive Lag for Human-Centric Leadership
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-36567-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

This book offers a rigorous, multi-level empirical investigation into the adaptive lag - the systemic mismatch between exponential technological acceleration and linear human-organizational adaptation. Utilizing a robust multiple case study design and narrative synthesis of nine distinct datasets collected between 2020 and 2025 across higher education, vocational, and corporate sectors, the text synthesizes multi-level perspective with social change framework to build an innovative theoretical paradigm. It introduces the transformational maturity model and the strategic leadership 5.0 framework, reframing psychosocial competences as quantifiable human capital assets within contemporary Industry 5.0 literature. This book is primarily targeted at management scholars, behavioural scientists, educational theorists, managers, and institutional policymakers. Readers will benefit from an advanced methodological framework that mitigates declarative bias and operationalizes abstract cultural attributes into a verifiable metric: the transformational maturity index. By deconstructing the structural mechanisms of the corporate immune system, the text successfully bridges the knowing-doing gap, offering substantial value to the literature on strategic renewal, systemic governance, and organizational learning potential. Additionally, the book provides actionable frameworks and professional development plans to dismantle institutional inertia, avoid the trap of technological perfectionism, and master durable psychosocial skills such as advanced communication and stress optimization. Ultimately, it empowers leaders to build resilient, platform-based networks where technology serves a higher social purpose.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poszytek, Pawel

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: Waves of change: transformation and its measurement Chapter 2: The psychological aspects of adaptation and the linear trap Chapter 3: Culture as the foundation for strategic renewal Chapter 4: Beyond competences 4.0-based transformational leadership and toward transformational maturity Chapter 5: Research description Chapter 6: Leaders of adaptation: units of analysis and results Chapter 7: The convergence of change: a synthesis of leadership and organizational adaptability for the era of exponential technological growth Chapter 8: Transformational maturity framework and the model Chapter 9: Implementation of transformational maturity model Chapter 10: Transformational maturity and sectoral insights Conclusion: navigating the exponential frontier

Über Autor(innen)

Pawel Poszytek, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (PWr - Wroclaw Tech), Poland, is visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness (Stanford School of Engineering) (2023–2024), where he conducted research on the digital transformation of universities and businesses. His research and publications focus on management, organizational studies, digital transformation, and public policy - especially European educational and digital policies.