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- Includes a comprehensive overview of ethical leadership theory
- Presents evidence supporting the practical adoption of ethical leadership in business organizations
- Introduces ethical leadership as a core concept in HR development
- Discusses how improved forms of leadership can be implemented
- Identifies leadership as the decisive and generally overlooked component for CSR and ethics implementation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance (CSEG)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book links ethical leadership theory to the implementation of improved leadership practices, particularly in highly operational environments. It builds on the recognition that bad forms of leadership lead to declining motivation and consequently to problems in the social climate and quality of work in organizations and the personal health of employees. It is based on a qualitative study from 100 in-depth interviews using inductive categorization, retrieving deep, rich and unprompted data from a highly developed and advanced production facility.
The book reviews the current state of research in this field and describes the setup of the underlying study, linking it to the author’s professional experience. It discusses the research design, its testing and its adaption to organizational practice. The book presents the findings of the study, introduces specific issues arising from the analysis, then critically discusses the interpretation of the findings and matches these with theoretical concepts. One finding of the study is that CSR and ethics are too often implemented with a focus on governance, process and reporting, without looking at leadership on all levels as the critical component. Finally it discusses the conclusions and implications derived from the findings. Overall, the book critically assesses how ethical leadership can be practically implemented in business organizations as a means of transforming organizations into better-governed institutions that exhibit ethical behavior. Foreword by Prof Dr James F. O'Kane, Dean of The Business School, Edinburgh Napier UniversityAuthors and Affiliations
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Eltville am Rhein, Germany
Bernhard Bachmann
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Leadership in Organizations
Book Subtitle: Concepts and Implementation
Authors: Bernhard Bachmann
Series Title: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42942-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42941-0Published: 15 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82700-1Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42942-7Published: 06 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2196-7075
Series E-ISSN: 2196-7083
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Strategy/Leadership, Business Ethics, Human Resource Management