The Role of Leadership Values and Communication in the Process of Change Towards Sustainability

Fairooz Hamdi and Nuno Guimaraes da Costa ()
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Nuno Guimaraes da Costa: ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: Literature has given significant attention to how leadership values relate to sustainability practices. However, it takes a holistic approach to investigate how leadership values can translate to employees achieving value congruence and influencing employees' sustainability-related change readiness. This article presents a framework that takes a holistic approach to examine the role of communication in the relationship between leadership values and employees' acceptance of change toward sustainability practices. The authors carry out a qualitative synthesis of the literature, including 111 articles revealing several findings. First, different leadership values influence various sustainability practices, including social, economic, and environmental. Second, communication-oriented to reaching understanding moderates the relationship between leadership values and change toward sustainability practices. Third, the ability of leaders to influence sustainability-related change through values depends on their organisation's cultural orientations, particularly power distance. This article adds value to change management literature directed at sustainable development by presenting a framework to guide leaders in reaching mutual understating and value congruence with their employees to influence their readiness and acceptance of the change toward sustainability practices.

Keywords: leadership values; communication; change towards sustainability; change management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2023, 1 (1), ⟨10.1504/IJMCP.2023.10060631⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2023.10060631

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