Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics: Leading Organizations Towards Sustainability

Organizations and societies are facing extreme challenges that require action (IPCC, 2021). The UN’s sustainability goals, demographic change, and the green shift are knocking on the door, while traditional education, and ways of leading and managing this development, often fail to keep up. Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics challenges leadership orthodoxy, assumptions, and myths currently preventing the further development of theory and practice. It encourages intelligent disobedience in support of greater leadership capabilities and capacity in organisations and societies.

As such, the book is written for everyone who wants to be MAD - to Make A Difference - students, scholars, and practitioners alike.

Chapter 5 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Rune Todnem By is Professor of Leadership at University of Stavanger, Norway; UNESCO Chair on Leadership, Innovation and Anticipation; and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice.

Bernard Burnes is Professor of Organisational Change at the University of Stirling Management School, Scotland.

Mark Hughes is a Former Reader in Organisational Change at University of Brighton, England.