Titre : | Responsible Leadership: a double ethical alignment between values and CSR commitment |
Auteurs : | Catherine POURQUIER, Auteur ; Jacques IGALENS, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Année de publication : | 2021 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Sources : | Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings |
Concepts : | Entrepreneuriat et innovation |
Mots-clés : |
[Aciège 2017] LEADERSHIP [Aciège 2017] ETHIQUE PROFESSIONNELLE |
Résumé : | For more than fifteen years, the literature on Responsible Leadership (RL) has been trying to outline the contours of this concept, which is still under construction at several levels, micro, meso and macro. Our objective is to focus on the link between the leader's posture and that of his or her organization in terms of CSR commitment from an ethical perspective. To do this, we put forward the concept of alignment. In our view, this alignment is a ""marker"" for the embodiment of RL's ethical posture. We propose a new way of reading RL based on a double ethical alignment, alignment of the CSR values of the organization and the leader on the one hand, and alignment of the CSR commitments of the organization and the leader on the other hand. From an academic point of view, the concept of alignment makes it possible to embody the ethical commitment of responsible leaders and their organizations. From a managerial point of view, alignment makes it possible to measure the level of responsible and ethical commitment of the leader and the company. We illustrate this concept of alignment through two case studies of world leaders in their fields of expertise, Essilor and Danone, who are also considered CSR ""champions"". Through these two examples, as well as an interview with the former chairman of Grameen Danone Bank, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, we will show how alignment is both a generic concept that measures the strength of investing in an ethical commitment to CSR and also a contingent concept that takes into account the cultural specificities of the organization. We propose a theoretical and a managerial model of alignment to shed light on the concept of RL. |
Numéro : | 1 |
Volume : | 2021 |
Citation norme APA : | Pourquier, C., & Igalens, J. (2021). Responsible Leadership: a double ethical alignment between values and CSR commitment. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2021(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.14287abstract |