Responsible Leadership Systems

An Empirical Analysis of Integrating Corporate Responsibility into Leadership Systems
With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald
ISBN: 978-3-8349-2386-8
Verlag: Gabler Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Markt- und Unternehmensentwicklung Markets and Organisations

Not all managers in multinational corporations can be exceptional leaders. Hence, corporations provide their managers with a broad set of instruments, methods and tools to support them in achieving outstanding leadership. These instruments stem from various functions like human resources, controlling, corporate communication, strategic management, and knowledge management and present the building blocks of so called leadership systems. A key question is how leadership systems can be aligned with corporate strategy to reach “leadership excellence” — a question that has been subject to empirical research in the recent years. In 2003, a study at my institute at Technische Universität München has shown that most leadership systems are indeed “excellent” in the way they are derived from the overarching corporate strategy; however, the results have also indicated that leadership systems have only weak ties to topics such as values, ethics, and social responsibilities. The major ethical and environmental crises which many of the multinational corporations have been facing motivated the author to revisit the topic of leadership systems. He roots his understanding in new management concepts such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate sustainability and, more generally, corporate responsibility (CR) and has argued that leadership systems need to go beyond purely economic aspects to also integrate social and environmental aspects. Such a holistic leadership system, the author terms “Responsible Leadership System”. In 2007, the author designed an empirical study labelled “CSR Leadership Study”, whose results are at the core of the present research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hansen, Erik Gunnar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Point of Departure.- Research Gap and Research Objective.- Outline of Thesis.- Foundations of Corporate Responsibility.- An Introduction to Corporate Responsibility.- Motivation for CR.- Organisational Learning for CR.- Summary of Part I.- Towards a Responsible Leadership Systems Framework.- The Interface of CR, Leadership, and Organisational Culture.- Core Fields of the RLS Framework.- Contextual Fields of the RLS Framework.- Summary of Part II.- Responsible Leadership Systems in Multinational Corporations.- Method.- Results.- Discussion.- Summary and Outlook.- Summary and Major Findings.- Implications for Theory.- Implications for Management.- Limitations and Further Research.- Outlook.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Erik G. Hansen gained his doctoral degree at the Institute for Information, Organization and Management of Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald at Technische Universität München.