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Good Dividends - Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose (Hardcover)
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Good Dividends - Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
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This book seeks to answer the question of 'leadership for what?'.
We shall outline an answer by focusing on responsible leadership of
purpose through an inter-disciplinary perspective. Responsible
leadership moves the axis of leadership from leader-followers to
leader-stakeholders; away from looking at leadership as
person-centric - the qualities, abilities, and effectiveness of the
leader, to a focus on the purposes, responsibilities and activities
of leadership. Leadership orientation is about realising value for
a range of constituencies, not just the shareholders of the
business. In this way this book offers up an alternative business
model to that of dominant neo-liberal approaches to capitalism and
its flow-on effect to the leadership project. This is a model that
draws on a most obvious assumption - if leaders maximise the use of
all the capitals of their business they will maximise their
dividends, and thus deliver their responsibility to the
shareholders as well as other relevant stakeholders. This book
explores how five dividends (based on five capitals) can be
developed through attention to a sixth dividend (and sixth capital)
- the dividend from our planet and communities. The planetary
dividend is the flourishing of humanity - but it is also a
significant dividend to the business. For example, by engaging the
business in a purpose-led orientation to enhance the planetary
dividend, the dividend from human resourcefulness becomes manifest
- employee sense of purpose, commitment, passion and energy. The
realisation of such can also connect with dividends from
innovation, operations and brands. For example, the business
benefits from a purpose-driven brand. In short, responsible
leadership of purpose outlines a case for leadership to focus on a
connected portfolio of 'good' dividends as an answer to the
question 'leadership for what?' The book is written by academics
and organisational leaders. It draws on a range of research with
leaders from a variety of contexts to illustrate the challenges but
also the benefits of this argument. It is an ambitious book:
ambitious, in terms of moving leadership towards realising purpose;
ambitious by seeking to align a range of business disciplines
around responsible leadership; and ambitious because it challenges
the dominant assumptions that shape business leadership. However,
it is based on a simple question: why would a business not wish to
generate good dividends for all its stakeholders?
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