Leadership and Organizational Sustainability: The Knowledge Management Approach

The book presents a new type of leadership focused on sustainable human development and organizational sustainability, which is based on the self-realization of the person of the leader, which means the satisfaction of their needs, according to the scale of Abraham Maslow, through integral human development in all aspects of life. Because the term "leader" appears to refer to anyone with the authority to confer a position with subordinates, the reality within organizations has shown that a leader must go further and demonstrate commitment, awareness, and concern for the common good. Which person has these characteristics? People who have had more opportunity to develop in different areas of their being, resulting in them being conceived as more educated. The qualities in a person are the basis of leadership. Education and practice are much more important than all hereditary and genetic codes. This volume explores the various ways of making explicit the dimensions of social, economic, and environmental sustainability through knowledge management that addresses the identification, collection, processing, circulation, use, exchange, and preservation of knowledge within operating systems and the context of organizations, considering issues that contribute to sustainability – human and organizational – where the leader is the main actor and the means is knowledge management.

Elia Socorro Díaz Nieto is a Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico, and holder of a PRODEP Profile (Program for Teacher Professional Development).

David Israel Contreras Medina is Research Professor at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and Member of the Mexican National System of Researchers.

Roberto Tuda Rivas is Professor in the School of Accounting and Administration at the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico.