The Use of Benevolent Leadership Development to Advance Principles of Responsible Management Education

This paper proposes benevolent leadership development as a framework to incorporate principles of responsible management education to mainstream management curriculum, specifically within the context of leadership courses. This paper makes three contributions. The first is the development of a practical framework for benevolent leadership as a means to impart the principles of responsible management. The second contribution is the review and integration of four anchors of benevolent leadership: ethical sensitivity, spiritual depth, positive engagement, and community responsiveness. The third contribution is sharing knowledge about pedagogical strategies including implementation of the benevolent leadership model in leadership development courses through use of individual and team projects and exercises, which attempts to respond the challenges about teaching leadership (Hay and Hodgkinson, 2006). The illustrative processes and projects in this paper come from leadership development courses offered in Turkey and in Canada