Leadership, Spirituality and Complexity: Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade — Peter Simpson

Spirituality in the workplace and theories of complexity are two emerging fields of research that are making an important contribution to the study of leadership practice.

Type:: Book Chapter
Author:: Peter Simpson; Clifford Hill
Published:: 2008
Publisher:: Palgrave Macmillan

Spirituality in the workplace and theories of complexity are two emerging fields of research that are making an important contribution to the study of leadership practice. In this chapter we take the opportunity of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the former British Empire to reflect on related ideas from these fields and apply them to a study of leadership in this movement. Our focus is the influence in Georgian society of William Wilberforce and the ‘Clapham Group’ from 1789 until the passing of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. This case study is chosen because of the extensive literature that details both the overt role of spirituality in the practice of this group and the issues of complexity in this social and political campaign.

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What is "Leadership, Spirituality and Complexity: Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade" about?: Spirituality in the workplace and theories of complexity are two emerging fields of research that are making an important contribution to the study of leadership practice.
Who wrote "Leadership, Spirituality and Complexity: Wilberforce and the Abolition of the Slave Trade"?: Peter Simpson; Clifford Hill