Leadership and Organizational Sustainability: The Knowledge Management Approach

The book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the leader's needs through integral human development. Education and practice are more important than hereditary and genetic codes, and knowledge management is the means to make explicit the dimensions of social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Format: Hardback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book introduces a novel approach to leadership, emphasizing sustainable human development and organizational sustainability. It revolves around the self-realization of the leader, fulfilling their needs based on Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs through comprehensive human development across various aspects of life. However, the concept of a leader being anyone with authority to delegate positions to subordinates has led to a realization that leaders must go beyond mere authority and demonstrate commitment, awareness, and concern for the common good. Who possesses these qualities? Individuals who have had the opportunity to develop diverse aspects of their being are often perceived as more educated. The qualities of a leader lie within a person, surpassing the influence of hereditary and genetic codes. This volume delves into various strategies for elucidating the dimensions of social, economic, and environmental sustainability through knowledge management. It encompasses the identification, collection, processing, circulation, utilization, exchange, and preservation of knowledge within operating systems and organizational contexts, considering factors that contribute to sustainability, both for individuals and organizations. The leader plays a central role. role, and knowledge management serves as the means to achieve sustainable outcomes.

The book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the person of the leader, which means the satisfaction of their needs, according to the scale of Abraham Maslow, through integral human development in all aspects of life. Because the term. term leader appears to refer to anyone with the authority. authority to confer a position with subordinates, the reality within organizations has shown that a leader must go further and demonstrate commitment, awareness, and concern for the common good. Who has these characteristics? People who have had more opportunity to develop in different areas of their being, resulting in them being conceived as more educated. The qualities in a person are the basis of leadership. Education and practice are much more important than all hereditary and genetic codes. This volume explores the various ways of making explicit the dimensions of social, economic, and environmental sustainability through knowledge management that addresses the identification, collection, processing, circulation, use, exchange, and preservation of knowledge within operating systems and the context of organizations, considering issues that contribute to sustainability – human and organizational – where the leader is the main actor and the means is knowledge management.

Weight: 630g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032442693