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Prosocial Leadership Grounding Leaders in Empathetic Concern

In: Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership

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  • Timothy Ewest

    (Houston Baptist University)

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This chapter endeavors to aid the reader in understanding the role that leadership can play in addressing incivility within global communities to help mitigate corresponding social and environmental problems. Globally, incivility and social unrest engender an antagonism toward environmental concerns demonstrated in resource hoarding and entitlement regarding resource utility, thus, social unrest and environmental degradation have a symbiotic relationship. To this end, this chapter will explore how leadership needs to be reconceptualized because of its problematic neglect of intrapersonal values. The neglect of intrapersonal values is seen in three historically accepted limits of fostering others-directed leadership, which in turn prohibits leaders from connecting leadership behaviors to ethically based actions. Therefore, leadership, to build social equity and build trust to move communities forward, must also be centered on prosocial values and understand group behaviors and the developmental process and growth of leaders as well as the groups they lead. Finally, the paper resolves by outlining Ewest’s (Prosocial leadership: Understanding the development of prosocial behavior within leaders and their organizational settings. Springer, 2017) prosocial leadership development process as one example of this new leadership paradigm.

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  • Timothy Ewest, 2023. "Prosocial Leadership Grounding Leaders in Empathetic Concern," Springer Books, in: Joan F. Marques & June Schmieder-Ramirez & Petros G. Malakyan (ed.), Handbook of Global Leadership and Followership, chapter 25, pages 637-656, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-21544-5_39
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-21544-5_39
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