Responsible Leadership

Essential to the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-65378-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

With a range of well-respected voices from across the business, political, third sector and research spectrum, this important book provides an accessible insight into responsible leadership. It represents the most comprehensive and informed work on responsible leadership linked to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) produced to date.

This carefully edited volume, based on a collaborative partnership between the Institute for Responsible Leadership (IRL) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), contains twenty chapters in seven parts which address the relationship between responsible leadership and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These original and accessible contributions discuss progress in a variety of areas relevant to the goals, including climate change and biodiversity, global health, cybercrime, human trafficking, corporate social responsibility, gender, education and social cohesion. The world-leading expert contributors are drawn from a wide range of societies and continents and cover key aspects of responsible leadership in a lively and impactful fashion.

This book is for leaders at every level in the public, private and third sectors, students concerned with responsible leadership, academics and researchers studying leadership in different disciplinary fields, and all those committed to sustainable development and progressing the UN SDGs.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saks, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Challenges of Responsible Leadership in a National and International Context 1. Responsible Leadership: Following the Spirit of Nelson Mandela; 2. Responsible Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations; Part II: Leadership and Social Responsibility 3. Constitutional Ethics, Human Rights and Responsible Leadership; 4. Innovation and Responsible Leadership in Business and Industry; 5. Cybercrime, Digital Technology and Responsible Leadership; Part III: Responsible Leadership in the Private and Public Sector 6. Responsible Leadership and Good Governance; 7. Privatization, Poverty and Responsible Leadership; 8. Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Leadership; Part IV: Communication and Responsible Leadership 9. Emotional Intelligence, Social Cohesion and Responsible Leadership; 10. Intercultural Communication Competence for Responsible Leadership; 11. Co-Responsible Leadership and Partnership; Part V: Education, Professions and Responsible Leadership 12. School and College Education and Responsible Leadership; 13. Responsible Leadership and Higher Education; 14. Professions and Responsible Leadership; Part VI: Responsible Leadership, the Environment and Global Health 15. COVID-19 and Global Human Health; 16. Responsible Leadership, the Climate Crisis and Preserving Planetary Health; 17. Biodiversity and Responsible Leadership; Part VII: Diversity, Challenge and Change 18. Responsible Leadership Development: Gender, Diversity and the Route to the Top; 19. Human Trafficking and Responsible Leadership; 20. Youth, Social Media and Responsible Leadership

Über Autor(innen)

Mike Saks is Emeritus Professor at the University of Suffolk and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln and the University of Westminster, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also Chair of the United Nations-endorsed Institute for Responsible Leadership. He has published extensively on health, professions, regulation and research methods.