Compassionate Leadership: For Individual and Organisational Change

Compassionate Leadership is a finalist in the Leadership - Think Differently category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2023. It draws on new and established research in psychology, behavioral science, neuropsychology, and leadership theory to show that compassion is a formidable and sustainable force for positive leadership. It explores the common myths, pitfalls, and concerns about leading with a compassionate approach and provides evidence-based tools, appraisals, and frameworks for leaders to adopt.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 222 pages
Publication date: 04 July 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter

Experts increasingly recognize that our volatile, complex, and fragile world requires a new type of leadership. More than ever, we need leaders who understand how compassion connects them with their employees, stakeholders, and wider communities. Yet compassion in organizations is often misunderstood, with many leaders reluctant to embrace it lest they appear weak. Compassionate Leadership draws on new and established research in psychology, behavioral science, neuropsychology, and leadership theory to show that compassion, when correctly understood and applied, is, in fact, a formidable and sustainable force for positive leadership. This book explores the common myths, pitfalls, and concerns about leading with a compassionate approach. It discusses the leadership, organizational, and individual benefits of compassion and shows how leaders can design an organization that establishes, then reinforces, a compassionate culture. A practical guide, this book provides evidence-based tools, appraisals, and frameworks that emphasize everyday applications that leaders, managers, and business students can adopt both individually and for their organizations. Compassionate Leadership presents a new model of compassion, an approach based on multidisciplinary research in a variety of organizational settings. It gives leaders a theoretical and practical underpinning they can use for deeper reflection and personal growth to turn their new-found knowledge into action.

Weight: 398g
Dimension: 170 x 241 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783110763010