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The humanistic perspective on leadership has attracted an increasing interest in the past few years (e.g., Maak & Pless, 2009). Humanistic leadership is generally understood as a set of principles oriented to developing meaningful and purposeful human experience, guided by basic values and focused on the common good. At the individual level, the exercise of humanistic leadership takes a person-centered view of the leader-followers relationship and considers the individuals’ position and voice within each society (Davila & Elvira, 2012). In business organizations, humanistic leadership is becoming an important pillar to the view of sustainability that includes the stakeholder perspective of the organization (Pirson & Lawrence, 2010). At the societal level, humanistic leadership considers the roles played by businesses from which contextual factors demand diverse business roles, such as becoming part of the social support system (Davila & Elvira, 2012).
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Rodríguez-Lluesma, C., Davila, A., Elvira, M.M. (2014). Humanistic Leadership as a Value-Infused Dialogue of Global Leaders and Local Stakeholders. In: Lupton, N.C., Pirson, M. (eds) Humanistic Perspectives on International Business and Management. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137471628_7
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