1st Edition
Responsible Leadership Essential to the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
With a range of well-respected voices from across the business, political, third sector and research spectrum, this important book provides an accessible insight into responsible leadership. It represents the most comprehensive and informed work on responsible leadership linked to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) produced to date.
This carefully edited volume, based on a collaborative partnership between the Institute for Responsible Leadership (IRL) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), contains twenty chapters in seven parts which address the relationship between responsible leadership and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These original and accessible contributions discuss progress in a variety of areas relevant to the goals, including climate change and biodiversity, global health, cybercrime, human trafficking, corporate social responsibility, gender, education and social cohesion. The world-leading expert contributors are drawn from a wide range of societies and continents and cover key aspects of responsible leadership in a lively and impactful fashion.
This book is for leaders at every level in the public, private and third sectors, students concerned with responsible leadership, academics and researchers studying leadership in different disciplinary fields, and all those committed to sustainable development and progressing the UN SDGs.
Part I: Challenges of Responsible Leadership in a National and International Context
1. Responsible Leadership: Following the Spirit of Nelson Mandela
Mike Saks
2. Responsible Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
Alex Mejía
Part II: Leadership and Social Responsibility
3. Constitutional Ethics, Human Rights and Responsible Leadership
James M. Durant III
4. Innovation and Responsible Leadership in Business and Industry
Sa’ad Sam Medhat
5. Cybercrime, Digital Technology and Responsible Leadership
Christiane Wuillamie
Part III: Responsible Leadership in the Private and Public Sector
6. Responsible Leadership and Good Governance
Colin Coulson-Thomas
7. Privatization, Poverty and Responsible Leadership
Guy Standing
8. Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Leadership
Michael Hopkins
Part IV: Communication and Responsible Leadership
9. Emotional Intelligence, Social Cohesion and Responsible Leadership
Mike Eldon
10. Intercultural Communication Competence for Responsible Leadership
Lixian Jin and Martin Cortazzi
11. Co-Responsible Leadership and Partnership
Rhiannon Lloyd and Brigid Carroll
Part V: Education, Professions and Responsible Leadership
12. School and College Education and Responsible Leadership
Julie Search-Whittaker and Adrian Sladdin
13. Responsible Leadership and Higher Education
Enver Yücel
14. Professions and Responsible Leadership
Mike Saks
Part VI: Responsible Leadership, the Environment and Global Health
15. COVID-19 and Global Human Health
Miwako Hosoda
16. Responsible Leadership, the Climate Crisis and Preserving Planetary Health
David Zakus
17. Biodiversity and Responsible Leadership
Edward Milner
Part VII: Diversity, Challenge and Change
18. Responsible Leadership Development: Gender, Diversity and the Route to the Top
Mahima Mitra, Andromachi Athanasopoulou, Sue Dopson and Michael Smets
19. Human Trafficking and Responsible Leadership
Louise Shelley
20. Youth, Social Media and Responsible Leadership
Sebastian Hofbauer
Biography
Mike Saks is Emeritus Professor at the University of Suffolk and Visiting Professor at the University of Lincoln and the University of Westminster, UK, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also Chair of the United Nations-endorsed Institute for Responsible Leadership. He has published extensively on health, professions, regulation and research methods.
