What is it about?
Confucian value system is an insightful heuristic to understand leadership and governance in Asia. Junzi leadership has inspired Singaporean leaders for many generations from Lee Kuan Yew, a self-confessed Confucianist. This article investigates the Confucian-inspired Junzi leadership translating into human capital development initiatives in Singapore.
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Our paper provides lucid insights on how Confucian value system informs the moral economy of the Singaporean corporatist model and inherently comes to impact upon the conception and significance of human capital. Not discussed previously, the paper investigates how Junzi leadership molds Tripartism governance that became instrumental to the development of Human Resource Development (HRD) strategies.
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Our paper brings about a unique Asian perspective of Junzi leadership toward Tripartism governance. Through a longitudinal observation of Singapore’s industrial relations and HRD policies over the last 10 years, our findings reveal that governance in Singapore displays an institutionalized form of Confucian Junzi leadership. Professor Adrian Kuah has taught at Manchester Business School, Bradford University School of Management and James Cook University over the last 20 years. He was named by the UK Financial Times as Professor of the Week and has published more than 60 papers, with his work appearing in prestigious outlets such as the Journal of Cleaner Production, European Journal of Marketing and R&D Management. He read his PhD from Manchester, ITP from Bocconi, and MBA from Strathclyde.
Adrian T. H. Kuah
James Cook University
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This page is a summary of: 君子 Junzi leadership in Singapore: governance and human capital development, The Journal of Management Development, April 2020, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jmd-05-2019-0194.
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