ABSTRACT

This chapter identifies two existing schools of socially responsible leadership: The individual, values-based model and the local stakeholder model. Ketola reported that consistency and coherency as a component of integrity is an important component of a leader's successful promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities at the firm, because it creates trust between the leader and the followers. Stakeholder integration is values-based; in other words it is guided by a sense of justice, a sense of recognition, a sense of care, and a sense of accountability for a wide range of economic, ecological, social, political, and human responsibilities'. In ancient Greece and Rome, as well as in the Christian medieval age, a natural theory' of culture for socially responsible leadership was espoused. The relational cultural theory is complemented with critical lenses offered by technical, political and postmodern theories, to promote transformative learning and democratizing the social relationships among different stakeholders, and with the organization and the society.