The Future for Responsible Leadership

  • Mario Fernando
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Abstract

The responsible leadership field is still in its formative years: current responsible leadership research focuses more on clarifying the attributes of the concept and process than on the outcome variables, such as its link to productivity and organizational performance. But if the claims regarding responsible leadership are valid, the benefits to be derived at the individual, organizational and societal levels in the Asian century are too vast to gloss over. Thus this concluding chapter will address the need to develop appropriate research designs to capture and apply the concept of responsible leadership. It will emphasize the need for scholars to contribute theoretically and empirically to the development of responsible leadership discourse as well as approaches to teaching responsible leadership in business schools, so that leaders have the necessary skills and tools to enact responsible leadership in the Asian century.

Keywords

Business Ethic Business School Ethical Leadership Organizational Citizenship Behavior Critical Reflection 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mario Fernando
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  1. 1.Faculty of BusinessUniversity of WollongongWollongongAustralia

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