Table Of ContentORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE,
LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS
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 organizations and societies.
As such, the book is written for everyone who wants to be MAD – to Make A
Difference – students, scholars, and practitioners alike.
Rune Todnem By is Professor of Leadership at the University of Stavanger,
Norway; UNESCO Chair on Leadership, Innovation and Anticipation; and the
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Change Management: Reframing Leadership and
Organizational Practice: Reframing Leadership and Organizational Practice.
Bernard Burnes is Professor of Organizational Change at the University of
Stirling Management School, Scotland.
Mark Hughes is a Former Reader in Organizational Change at the University of
Brighton, England.
Routledge Studies in Organizational Change &
Development
Series Editor: Bernard Burnes
Leadership and Digital Change
The Digitalization Paradox
Einar Iveroth and Jacob Hallencreutz
Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations
Thomas Calvard
Leadership, Organizational Change and Sensemaking
Ronald Skea
Organizational Change and Relational Resources
Edited by Karol Marek Klimczak, and Yochanan Shachmurove
Organizational Behaviour and Change Management
The Impact of Cognitive and Social Bias
Cornell Vernooij, Judith Stuijt, Maarten Hendriks, Wouter ten Have, and Steven ten Have
Organizational Cognition
The Theory of Social Organizing
Edited by Davide Secchi, Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, and Stephen John Cowley
Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics
Leading Organizations towards Sustainability, 2E
Edited by Rune By, Bernard Burnes, and Mark Hughes
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ORGANIZATIONAL
CHANGE,
LEADERSHIP AND
ETHICS
Leading Organizations Towards
Sustainability
2nd Edition
Edited by Rune Todnem By, Bernard Burnes,
and Mark Hughes
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Names: By, Rune Todnem, editor. | Burnes, Bernard, 1953- editor.
Title: Organizational change, leadership and ethics : leading organizations
towards sustainability / edited by Rune Todnem By, Bernard Burnes and
Mark Hughes.
Description: 2nd edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,
2023. | Series: Routledge studies in organizational change & development |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022021946 | ISBN 9780367477493 (hardback) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Organizational change‐‐Moral and ethical aspects. |
Leadership‐‐Moral and ethical aspects. | Social responsibility of business. |
Business ethics.
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003036395
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For being naïve. Believing in a better future and the best in humankind.
Rune Todnem By
Why are we jailing people who peacefully oppose the climate emergency instead
of those who are causing it? Bernard Burnes
In praise of quiet refusals and quiet revolutions. Mark Hughes
CONTENTS
About the Authors x
Introduction: Ethical Change Leadership 2.0 1
Mark Hughes, Rune Todnem By, and Bernard Burnes
PART I
Context and Theory 9
1 Leadership Ethics and Organizational Change: Sketching
the Field’s Challenges 11
Moritz Patzer and Christian Voegtlin
2 Perceptions and Development of Ethical Change
Leadership 30
Rebecca Newton
3 Mission Leadership: A Key Enabler for an Emerging
Leadership Model, Planned, and Emergent Change and
Ethical Clarity 51
Brian Howieson
4 Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethical Quality of Leadership 67
Carl Rhodes
viii Contents
5 Leadership as Care-ful Co-directing Change: A Processual
Approach to Ethical Leadership for Organizational Change 83
Christoffer Andersson, Lucia Crevani, and Anette Hallin
6 Leadership: The Collective Pursuit of Delivering on
Purpose 97
Rune Todnem By and Ben S. Kuipers
7 Making Purpose the Core Work of Business Leadership:
A Guiding Framework 115
Steve Kempster and Brad Jackson
PART II
Issues and Challenges 141
8 Courage to Strive: Hypocrisy Monitoring, Integrity
Striving, and Ethical Leadership 143
Ronald L. Dufresne and Judith A. Clair
9 ‘How Do We Make Sure They Don’t Get Fat and Lazy?’
Utopian Change and the Erosion of Compassion 159
Henrika Franck, Saku Mantere, and Henri Schildt
10 Leadership Narcissism, Ethics, and Strategic Change: Is It
Time to Revisit Our Thinking about the Nature of
Effective Leadership? 177
Malcolm Higgs
11 Organizational Leadership and Change in the Context of
Conflict 198
Joanne Murphy
12 Leadership for Sustainable Futures 215
Melissa Edwards, Suzanne Benn, and Dexter Dunphy
13 A Dualities Approach to Sustainable Organizational
Change Leadership 233
Aaron C.T. Smith, James Skinner, and Daniel Read
Contents ix
PART III
Conclusions 251
14 Leadership, Sustainability, and Ethics: Looking Back to
Move Forward 253
Bernard Burnes
15 Teaching Organizational Change Leadership and Ethics 271
Mark Hughes
16 Toward Intelligent Disobedience: Academics Leading by
Example 288
Mark Hughes, Bernard Burnes, and Rune Todnem By
Index 304
