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The Story Of Ethicus: India's First Ethical Fashion Brand, Ajith Sankar
The Story Of Ethicus: India's First Ethical Fashion Brand, Ajith Sankar
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Historically, cotton has played a significant role in India’s independence from British rule and continues to be a factor in that nation’s growth and recognition as a premier trading partner. Now, the Ethicus brand has provided the world with a template of how to create and develop an industry sustainably, giving due regard to the process and to each employee.
Redemption In The Dean’S Office, Christine Clements
Redemption In The Dean’S Office, Christine Clements
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Academic deans, like all leaders trying to create principled-based positions, are subject to the hubris of power and the often divergent demands of many stakeholders. Dean Clements discusses how a leader’s failures, as well as successes, are all necessary to properly cultivate this role.
Values-Based Leadership: A Shift In Attitude, Joseph Hester
Values-Based Leadership: A Shift In Attitude, Joseph Hester
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
To genuinely refer to leadership as “values-based,” a shift in attitude is required and the “ethics of care” must be embraced. This modification will ostensibly involve a subjective commitment to reason consistently and prudently, to care for others, and to dedicate oneself to reconsider his or her actions and behaviors.
Capital Budgeting And Sustainable Enterprises: Ethical Implications, Ron Sookram, Balraj Kistow
Capital Budgeting And Sustainable Enterprises: Ethical Implications, Ron Sookram, Balraj Kistow
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This article focuses upon the growing, universal influence of social, environmental, and economic factors in business decision-making and the possibility of developing sustainable enterprises through a triple-bottom-line, capital budgeting approach.
Business And Corporate Stakeholders Management: Interactions With An Eminent Expert From The Indian Banking And Finance Industry (Interview With Sanjiv Bhasin), Shashank Shah
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
A very insightful look into the evolving ethics of the emerging, sustainable business culture as derived from an interview with Mr. Sanjiv Bhasin, Managing Director of DBS Bank Ltd. India and former CEO and Managing Director of Rabo India Finance Ltd.
Lands' End And The Comer Foundation: A Legacy (An Overview Of Gary Comer, The Founding Of Lands' End, And An Interview With Stephanie Comer), Elizabeth Gingerich
Lands' End And The Comer Foundation: A Legacy (An Overview Of Gary Comer, The Founding Of Lands' End, And An Interview With Stephanie Comer), Elizabeth Gingerich
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
When a business is created by an individual who holds certain values as fundamental to its development, the customer, workforce, and management are all natural beneficiaries. This case study and interview exemplify how both community service and serving the customer can transcend, and even augment, the bottom line.
Principles For Accountable Leadership — The Aa1000 Series, Daniel Waistell
Principles For Accountable Leadership — The Aa1000 Series, Daniel Waistell
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Author Daniel Waistell, Standards Manager of London-based AccountAbility, has provided the most recent benchmarks of identifying stakeholders for businesses to pursue greater sustainability in their respective operations. These standards are often coupled with world protocol reporting guidelines, including Global Reporting Initiative headquartered in Amsterdam (a United Nations-based program voluntarily used by the majority of Fortune 1000 companies as well as myriad small and medium enterprises). Waistell demonstrates the need for more transparency in business operations and reporting activities to achieve greater accountability for a wider array of non-traditional stakeholders.
Workplace Bullying And Ethical Leadership, David Yamada
Workplace Bullying And Ethical Leadership, David Yamada
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
In order to increase business productivity, benefit packages and other financial incentives might not be adequate. Rather, the focus upon common respect for — and decent treatment of — all workers is discussed, with primary emphasis given to the endemic workplace problem of worker harassment. Simple courtesies, genuine team and individual service acknowledgement, and the dismantling of a counterproductive, hierarchical worker system, often lead to increased productivity, congenial relationships, and a happier and healthier worker.
Capitalism Revisited: The Interplay Of Motivation, Inspiration And Risk, Duncan Goose
Capitalism Revisited: The Interplay Of Motivation, Inspiration And Risk, Duncan Goose
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Business leaders who have effectively communicated their values by undertaking substantial philanthropic endeavors made fiscally possible through their own business successes, labors and investments, appear to all share a common thread. Influential social, environmental, work and religious backgrounds are studied and “epiphanal” experiences explored.
Dynamic Leadership: Toolbox For The Values-Based Entrepreneur, Chun Guo, Sinéad G. Ruane, Alexandra Galli-Debicella, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Charles C. Manz
Dynamic Leadership: Toolbox For The Values-Based Entrepreneur, Chun Guo, Sinéad G. Ruane, Alexandra Galli-Debicella, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Charles C. Manz
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Four entrepreneurship models are proposed which lend guidance in the development of a business, from birth to exit, each examining ways to maintain the business founder’s initial vision and to continue to infuse values and ethical decision-making at each stage of development.
The Making Of A “Philanthropreneur” (Interview With Trevor Field And Mark Melman, Playpumps International)
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
“Be mindful of taking care of yourself without excesses.” In the case of Playpumps® International, an NGO based in Johannesburg, South Africa, coupling a not-for-profit with a for-profit company produced the needed incentive to bear truth to the idiom that one person, one simple idea can really change the world. Trevor Field and his partner, Mark Melman, former executives in the outdoor advertising industry, have done just that. With the invention of the PlayPump® water system, government agencies, NGOs and for-profit business have converged to address the disturbing reality that over one billion people lack access to clean water. According …
A Lack Of Willpower May Influence A Leader’S Ability To Act Morally, Tom Karp
A Lack Of Willpower May Influence A Leader’S Ability To Act Morally, Tom Karp
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Acts of moral leadership do not come without risks of loss of employment, a lessening of personal stature, and compromised mental and physical wellbeing. Thus, the quest to act as a values-based leader necessarily commands the exercise of unfettered willpower and a tenacious willingness to assume such risks.
Secrets Of Your Leadership Success: The 11 Indispensable E’S Of A Leader, M. S. Rao
Secrets Of Your Leadership Success: The 11 Indispensable E’S Of A Leader, M. S. Rao
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Professor Rao has used his experiences in organizational systems to produce a “recipe” for true leadership. In developing the 11 E’s — from Enthusiasm to Ethics —this author attempts to identify the traits characteristically and uniformly found in great leaders. While each component may be descriptive of a recognized head of a particular organization, successful principled leadership mandates the amalgamation of all of these enumerated traits.
The Conscious Organization: Prospects For A Self-Actualized Workforce, John Renesch
The Conscious Organization: Prospects For A Self-Actualized Workforce, John Renesch
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Values-based leadership is not something that is readily attainable without an individual and collective commitment to a lifelong course of self-evaluation. The “Conscious Organization” model is re-introduced by Renesch who describes it as “a group of people who are constantly examining their individual and collective consciousness.” Thus, the conscious organization is not a stagnant goal, but perpetually a work-in-progress.
Appalachian Farmers: Building Value From Values, Natalie Shubert, Amy Taylor-Blanco, Ana L. Rosado Feger
Appalachian Farmers: Building Value From Values, Natalie Shubert, Amy Taylor-Blanco, Ana L. Rosado Feger
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This trio of authors has presented a microcosm of values-based shared business practices, involving local food production and distribution in a small, rural Appalachian region in the United States. They focus upon the collective activities of a group committed to advancing local business practices while eliminating unnecessary transportation costs, boosting the region’s economic infrastructure, and most importantly, bringing people together to share experiences and pass along knowledge designed to benefit their communities and generate a sustainable agricultural-based economy.
Ethical Governance In The Indian Construction Industry: A Case Study Of Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Shashank Shah
Ethical Governance In The Indian Construction Industry: A Case Study Of Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Shashank Shah
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Governance has moved beyond mere fulfilment of legal requirements. The corporate debacles of the last decade and more have indicated how very respectable corporate organisations across the globe succumbed to greed and compromised on ethics and organisational value systems. Corporate Governance is mainly concerned with the intrinsic nature, purpose, integrity, and identity of an organisation. It encompasses the entire gamut of organisational stakeholders. While a lot of literature is available in the field of Corporate Governance, an analysis of corporate organisations in terms of their stakeholder-related initiatives has hitherto not been attempted. In this paper, the author has used the …
Leadership Shortcomings: A Values Deficit, Ritch K. Eich
Leadership Shortcomings: A Values Deficit, Ritch K. Eich
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Eich shapes his personal definition of principled leadership by examining several modern-day leaders. He examines the impetus and motivation that characterize successful, exemplary leaders and explains why their actions exude integrity, spawn followers and emulators, and generate widespread respect.
Corporate Political Spending: Why Shareholders Must Weigh In, Julie N.W. Goodridge, Christine Jantz
Corporate Political Spending: Why Shareholders Must Weigh In, Julie N.W. Goodridge, Christine Jantz
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This article focuses upon the growing problem confronting companies and their shareholders: the use of general treasury (i.e., shareholder money) to propagate political agendas which are not only contrary to companies’ policies of employment, but are committed without the input or knowledge of the shareholder, leading to an aura of distrust, alienation, and diminution of both shareholder value and principled leadership.
Value Shifts: Redefining “Leadership” A Narrative, Joseph Hester
Value Shifts: Redefining “Leadership” A Narrative, Joseph Hester
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
This article provides a historical narrative documenting the major rifts and shifts in the concept of “value” in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is the author’s contention that these shifts have confused the conceptualization of value, making it a rather broad and meaningless term. Thus, to define “leadership” as “values- or ethically-based,” one must first provide a substantial defense of a particular moral view upon which leadership is want to be situated. This task is made arduous because “value” and “morals” have become confused in the morass of postmodernism and its political correlate, political correctness.
Notes Toward A Definition Of Values-Based Leadership, James O'Toole
Notes Toward A Definition Of Values-Based Leadership, James O'Toole
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
O’Toole distinguishes values-based leaders from other types of leadership by citing to various examples of both historical and present day leaders. In the end, as O’Toole notes, the values defining the leader are the values that leader holds dear.
Values-Based Leadership: How Our Personal Values Impact The Workplace, Katherine W. Dean
Values-Based Leadership: How Our Personal Values Impact The Workplace, Katherine W. Dean
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
As an individual’s personal values ostensibly impact others and influence their actions, values-based leaders can benefit greatly by exercising their own values to develop vision and to inspire others.
Positively Deviant Organizational Performance And The Role Of Leadership Values, Kim S. Cameron
Positively Deviant Organizational Performance And The Role Of Leadership Values, Kim S. Cameron
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Cameron cites the infusion of collaborative values and restructuring of relationships as a primary reason for the successful clean up and closure of Rocky Flats, one of U.S.’s most hazardous and controversial toxic dumps. Success was contingent upon mutual trust and respect of and between traditionally adversarial groups by adopting a mutual proactive, sharing orientation and empathetic attitudes. The true leaders in this venture shifted from a profit-first stance to changing organizational culture, ensuring that individuals (especially leaders and influencers) pursued an abundance-based vision.
Turn Your Values Into Value, Mark S. Albion
Turn Your Values Into Value, Mark S. Albion
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Business is about the creation of values. The quintessential bottom line is not so much monetarily defined as it is related to heart and passion and making a unique contribution to the world. In this article, Albion debunks well-rooted myths of the development and placement of business values by stressing the importance of engaging people and migrating toward – not away from – one’s own values.
Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Business, Dane Starbuck
Spiritual Enterprise: Doing Virtuous Business, Dane Starbuck
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
While textbooks and other non-fiction works concerning modern-day business practices are replete with detailing the endless stream of corporate scandals, reviewer Starbuck looks deeply into this writing of T.R. Malloch and finds something quite hopeful and inspiring: the plethora of enterprises that do follow virtuous practices – and succeed.
Citizen Engineers: Leaders In Building A Sustainable World, Joseph "Bud" Ahearn
Citizen Engineers: Leaders In Building A Sustainable World, Joseph "Bud" Ahearn
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
As with the “citizen soldiers” of World War II, the engineering industry must produce “citizen engineers” who will accept the leadership challenge necessary to deliver a combination of technical, economic, social, and environmental values to its stakeholders that will truly improve people’s quality of life.
We Lead From The Inside Out, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
We Lead From The Inside Out, James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Business leaders we must clarify and effectively communicate their values before expecting others to follow. To identify values requires thorough and often intense self-examination.
Succeeding Through Collaborative Conflict: The Paradoxical Lessons Of Shared Leadership, Rebecca Paulson, Habibullah Wajdi, Charles C. Manz
Succeeding Through Collaborative Conflict: The Paradoxical Lessons Of Shared Leadership, Rebecca Paulson, Habibullah Wajdi, Charles C. Manz
The Journal of Values-Based Leadership
Facing serious challenges that may dictate the complete overhaul of business mindset and industry must be directed by sound leadership. But is it possible to lead alone or is collaboration necessary to confront these challenges? These authors tackle the well-known idiom “two heads are better than one” and extract from its meaning the inherent dichotomy in shared leadership, mediating differences of direction, and preserving the integrity of individual perspective in this new age.