Leadership and Cultural Change

<p>Contemporary confluences of leadership decision-making and citizenship behavior often unintentionally contribute to the depletion of the world’s resources – escalating health education and social crises as well as community societal and cultural struggles – to adapt to emerging global shifts. Leadership and management practices in this context affect the wellbeing of organizational members (e.g. their safety health financial security etc.) but also entail positive or negative impacts on consumer practices and collective community well-being (e.g. education obesity cancer safe or green driving energy conservation diversity based health care etc.). </p><p></p><p>Decision-making in most businesses and organizations is largely responsive to demands for short-term profit or cost minimization. On the consumer side both cultural values and the corporate marketing practices that sustain them encourage high levels of consumption necessary to sustain corporate practices. In exploring the emerging applications of behavior science to these challenges this book showcases emerging work by internationally recognized scholars on leadership and cultural change. The book will aid organizations and leaders in creating new models of stewardship and will open opportunities for innovation while adapting and responding to growing social upheaval technological advances and environmental concerns as well as crises in the global economy health education and environment. This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. </i></p>