Mirror up to benevolent paternalistic leadership (BPL)
| dc.contributor.author | Rana Zamin Abbas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hasan Sohaib Murad | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ahmed F. Siddiqui | |
| dc.contributor.author | Muhammad Razzaq Athar | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-02T10:42:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-02T10:42:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper aims to address the fundamental questions: What is BPL? Why is the Quest for BPL? And how BPL can bring about positive change? ñ For this purpose, the paper reviews different definitions and perspectives of Benevolent Paternalistic Leadership (BPL) along with antecedents and outcomes to assess the current state of BPL literature. After reviewing current state of BPL literature, paper explores the quest for Benevolent Paternalistic Leadership along with the challenges faced by BPL at organizational as well as civilizational levels. To address how BPL can bring about positive change, it explores the ideas of political leaders, the role of courage and insights from the Holy Qurían and Sunnah. The paper finally emphasizes the need to incorporate these rich ideas into BPL literature. Using sources of BPL literature, sources of organizational literature, sources of civilizational literature specifically the ideas of political leaders, along with the sources of Quríanic literature and authentic Ahadith, this paper firstly explores the relevant literature of BPL and explores the challenges of BPL at different levels both at organizational and civilizational. Secondly, it highlights the ideas given by political leaders, their courage and Islamic guidance for setting the future directions for the management practice. World of management is facing multi-faceted crisis with reference to leadership. Signs of this crisis are clear indicators of something missing which needs to be filled to overcome this multi-faceted crisis. This study comes at a time of stock-taking at organizational and civilizational levels with reference to BPL. It addresses a timely need of the importance of BPL and by melting rich insights from different authentic sources into one place, paves way for peace, harmony and success in the world of management at both levels: organizational as well as civilization. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Abbas, R. Z., Murad, H. S., Siddiqui, A. F., & Athar, M. R. (2013). Mirror up to benevolent paternalistic leadership (BPL): An exploratory account. EKONOMIKA, 1(16), 42-60. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/908 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Benevolent Paternalistic Leadership | en_US |
| dc.subject | Challenges | en_US |
| dc.subject | Organizations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Civilizations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Leaders | en_US |
| dc.subject | Courage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quríanic Verses | en_US |
| dc.subject | Authentic Ahadith | en_US |
| dc.title | Mirror up to benevolent paternalistic leadership (BPL) | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | An exploratory account | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |