Sāttvika Leadership: An Indian Model of Positive Leadership

Kumar Alok ()
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Kumar Alok: XLRI Xavier School of Management, Circuit House Area (East)

Journal of Business Ethics, 2017, vol. 142, issue 1, No 8, 117-138

Abstract: Abstract I propose a leadership theory with moral concerns at its core. Sāttvika leadership (SL) is defined as a set of purposive leader actions comprising knowledge-driven cooperation that are initiated on the basis of positive and reasonably accurate assumptions and executed through morally responsible and sustainably fruitful means to secure the flourishing of followers and the collective. SL enhances psychological capital, psychological empowerment, and work engagement of followers while developing them into morally better persons. It enhances their trust on the leader and fellow followers. Further, it develops ethical climate of the organization.

Keywords: Action; Ethical; Indian philosophy; Sāttvika; Moral; Positive leadership; Spiritual (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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