Justice-Based Leadership: Aligning Values with Social Justice

Defining Justice-Based Leadership

• Justice-Based Leadership (JBL) is a philosophy that aligns individual and group values, mission, actions, structures, and systems around universal principles of social justice and economic justice.

Key Components of JBL

• Develops an individual's and organization's values, mission, actions, structures, and systems around social justice and economic justice principles.
• Relates to individual business or organization development, as well as larger economic or political systems.

Paradox of JBL

• Values oneself while subordinating to higher purposes and principles, characterizing the essence of humanity and effective justice-based leadership.

Responsibilities of a JBL

• Understands the corruptibility of concentrated power, including within oneself.
• Institutionalizes checks-and-balances to prevent power concentration.

Incorporating Other Leadership Philosophies

• Encompasses concepts of servant leadership, transformational leadership, and principle-centered leadership.
• Recognizes the impact of personal and organizational values on behavior, performance, and development.

Servant-Leadership Aspects

• Trust
• Appreciation
• Empowerment of others

Transformational Leadership Components

• Charisma or idealized influence (leader as role model)
• Inspirational motivation
• Intellectual stimulation
• Consideration of the individual

Principle-Centered Leadership Components

• Personal character
• Competence
• Commitment to natural law principles

Goal of JBL

• Centers all aspects of life on correct principles.
• Enables every person to develop internal power and personal economic power through capital ownership.

Empowerment of Others

• Occurs when principles and practices of justice are understood and applied at all levels of an organization or society.

Justice-Based Management

• Justice-Based Leadership is a key part of Justice-Based Management.
• Recognizes the distribution of direct capital ownership and private property rights impact the distribution of economic and political power and social and economic justice.

Challenges of JBL

• Promotes a culture that develops, enriches, and empowers each member of the group, strengthening the whole.
• Drives a dynamic process that seeks to create decentralized power structures, teaching, empowering, and inspiring every person to become a justice-based leader.

Justice-Based Leadership is a philosophy that aligns individual and group values with universal principles of social justice and economic justice. It relates to the development of organizations and systems, as well as to a larger economic or political system.