scholarly journals Responsible Leadership Competencies in leaders around the world: Assessing stakeholder engagement, ethics and values, systems thinking and innovation competencies in leaders around the world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Muff ◽  
Coralie Delacoste ◽  
Thomas Dyllick
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Understanding how best to engage recreationists in biosecurity to reduce the impacts of tree diseases: a review

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 531-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Hall ◽  
Mariella Marzano ◽  
Liz O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Tree Diseases ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Combining Information

Pests and diseases introduced from other countries are known to pose a threat to trees, woods and forests in many locations throughout the world. Once introduced they can be spread inadvertently by countryside visitors hiking, biking or riding along paths and trails through wooded areas. Engaging and communicating with these groups of countryside users to encourage and facilitate positive biosecurity behaviours is crucial for the future resilience of trees, woods and forests. This review draws on literature outlining principles for stakeholder engagement in forestry as well as evaluations of biosecurity campaigns from around the world. Key points are briefly presented for communicators aiming to encourage better biosecurity in the countryside. These include, the need to design campaigns based on the values and motivations of recreationists, using trusted information sources and understanding the importance of combining information with facilities so as to reduce the cost (in terms of effort and inconvenience) to hikers and other countryside users.

Ecologies by Humans for Humans

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswald J. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Environmental Stewardship ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Ethical Position ◽  
The World ◽  
Virtual Resources

This chapter discusses the potential of industrial and urban ecology to entwine humans and nature to achieve sustainability in ways that are respectful and ethical to both. Thinking about humans and nature linked as socio-ecological systems means appreciating the growing, inextricable connectedness between global locations where technology is manufactured and used, and locations that physically provide the key elements. An ethical position of environmental stewardship would obligate one to first question whether it is right to protect nature in one location and force resource extraction to be done in other parts of the world. Industrial ecology is an emerging field that enhances society's ability to maintain the functionality of related ecosystems, and is also now toying with using principles of evolutionary biology and resilience. Like industrial ecology, urban ecology is based on systems thinking and include the valuation of ecosystem services, telecoupling of real and virtual resources, and environmental stewardship.

Systems Thinking and the Internet

2005 ◽  
pp. 2719-2723
Author(s):  
Kambiz E. Maani
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Relation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Newtonian Physics ◽  
The World ◽  
Mechanistic View ◽  
The Way

Despite our most impressive advances in science and technology, our prevailing worldview and the way we work and relate are deeply rooted in the thinking that emerged during the Renaissance of the 17th century. This thinking was influenced by the sciences of that era and, in particular, by Newtonian physics. Newton viewed the world as a machine that was created to serve its master—God (Ackoff, 1993). The machine metaphor and the associated mechanistic (positivist) worldview, which was later extended to the economy, the society, and the organization, has persisted until today and is evident in our thinking and vocabulary. The mechanistic view of the enterprise became less tenable in the 20th century, partly due to the emergence of the corporation and the increasing prominence of human relation issues in the workplace. As the futurist Alvin Toffler (1991) declared, “the Age of the Machine is screeching to a halt” (Toffler, 1991).

scholarly journals How We Understand “Complexity” Makes a Difference: Lessons from Critical Systems Thinking and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK

Systems ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Michael C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Critical Systems Thinking ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Systems Thinking Approach ◽  
The Way

Many authors have sought to summarize what they regard as the key features of “complexity”. Some concentrate on the complexity they see as existing in the world—on “ontological complexity”. Others highlight “cognitive complexity”—the complexity they see arising from the different interpretations of the world held by observers. Others recognize the added difficulties flowing from the interactions between “ontological” and “cognitive” complexity. Using the example of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, and the responses to it, the purpose of this paper is to show that the way we understand complexity makes a huge difference to how we respond to crises of this type. Inadequate conceptualizations of complexity lead to poor responses that can make matters worse. Different understandings of complexity are discussed and related to strategies proposed for combatting the pandemic. It is argued that a “critical systems thinking” approach to complexity provides the most appropriate understanding of the phenomenon and, at the same time, suggests which systems methodologies are best employed by decision makers in preparing for, and responding to, such crises.

scholarly journals TEACHER’S LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY IN MANAGING ONLINE INSTRUCTION DURING THE PANDEMIC DISRUPTION IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-445
Author(s):  
Sudarmo Sudarmo ◽  
Muslimah Muslimah
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Leadership Competencies ◽  
Teacher Instruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Learning Policies ◽  
Teaching Leadership ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Disruption Time

Since COVID-19 shocked the world, all business activities experienced an enormous impact, including in the field of education. UNESCO advised the world to ease the pandemic's impact on world education continuity with distance learning policies to overcome this disruption. Since then, pandemic affected countries experienced difficulties implementing that distance learning to respond to the policy. In this regard, this paper was carried out to identify additional instructional leadership competencies for teachers in managing learning in a pandemic. Evidence from the study of education shows that learning in disruption time is closely related to teachers' management in innovating such high technological virtual learning. To find answers, we conducted preliminary readings of the relevant literature. Next, we analyzed that information qualitatively by exploring what teacher instruction management is applicable during the pandemic. Then, we found that additional teaching leadership competencies can be adopted to support students learning in virtual approaches such as reflective opportunities, increasing truth among teachers and students, keeping curiosity habits, building productive communication, initiative habit, and more listening to understand others. Those additional teaching leadership competencies are useful to any party interested in supporting students learning in the pandemic disruption.

scholarly journals Crises and Systems Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Janos Korn
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Operational Model ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Crisis Situations

Tragedy, disaster or disorder precedes a situation labelled ‘crisis’, if it occurs. Tragedy, disaster or disorder is potentially present in all scenarios which function according to expectations or normally, they are dormant in any part of the world. A structural or linguistic model of a scenario reveals its constituents i.e. objects or agents, their properties and qualified interactions as seen by an investigator. Thus, objects and interactions are open to unravelling those features which are considered prone to tragedy or vulnerable to disasters or possibly incurring disorder, each to a varying degree. Therefore, new structures can be foreseen, planned, designed and introduced into a scenario to reduce chances of disasters occurring and possibly followed by crisis situations. A linguistic, operational model also allows the analysis and simulation of scenarios when real or imaginary crisis has occurred and crisis management has been introduced with effectiveness measured by ‘certainty factors’, for example. Currently workers in the field of crisis appear to concentrate on its nature and management and express their ideas in a descriptive manner. In this paper this is supplemented by showing how background scenarios can be operationally modelled in which potential tragedies, disasters or disorders are embedded. Crisis management is seen as a kind of problem solving and as such is amenable to being engineered by the method introduced here.

Demonstrating Responsible Leadership at SOS Villages- A Real Case

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. L. Hymavathi ◽  
Aditya Kasarabada ◽  
Sarma Avadhanam
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The World ◽  
Varied Degree ◽  
Complex Ecosystem ◽  
Social Leadership

Todays enterprises across the world realize that they are a part of a large complex ecosystem and they need to plan, act, perform, and realize their mission interacting with various groups of stakeholders. It applies to profit and not for profit organizations at varied degree of importance to make a positive contribution to society beyond the economic benefits that derive from the activities of enterprises. The need of the hour is to define, design, develop, and deliver on responsible or social leadership. The Center for Social Leadership defines social leadership as a means to devote ones life and talents to improving society regardless of social standing, wealth, or privilege. Considering the above context, to fully grasp and understand how the power of social leadership influences the society we considered the case of one such leader Tim Mckormick, CEO of SOS Villages, USA in understanding the style of his leadership, the motivational factors, the triggers for action, the challenges, and the dilemmas in living up to the organizational and personal values to make a positive impact to the society.

Role of Manufacturing Sector in the Forthcoming National Industrial Transformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Gerard Martorell ◽  
Liang Xu ◽  
Yong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Logical Reasoning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
The World

At the present time, various ambitious nations laid out their plans for maintaining or acquiring their leadership in the world by emphasizing innovations and by focusing on the manufacturing sector. To understand this phenomenon theoretically, this paper addresses the importance of the manufacturing sector in the overall development of a nation's economic strength. By employing systems thinking and such a logical reasoning that is commonly used in mathematics and natural science, this paper establishes three formal propositions on related issues and provides policy recommendations and open problems for future research.

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