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Leadership in Catholic Social Teaching
The material subject of Catholic social science is man and his actions taken in the
fields of politics, the economy and society. According to its rules each person should
be engaged in building the world through the realization of his or her vocation. One
kind of vocation might be leading people by acting in accordance with the Gospel
and teachings of the Church. The most important values for the leader in this case
would be: respect for human dignity and human rights, freedom, justice, the subsidiarity principle and cooperation due to creating the common good. The listed rules
are realized by servant leadership, the idea functioning in the field of management
that derives its origins from Christ’s speech: whosoever will be chief among you,
let him be your servant (Mt 20:27)
Evolving IT management frameworks towards a sustainable future
Information Technology (IT) Management Frameworks are a fundamental tool used by IT professionals to efficiently manage IT resources and are globally applied to IT service delivery and management. Sustainability is a recent notion that describes the need for economic, environmental and social development with- out compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs; this applies to businesses as well as society in general. Unfortunately, IT Management Frameworks do not take sustainability into account. To the practitioner this paper demonstrates sustainability integration thereby allowing CIOs and IT managers to improve the sustainability of their organisation. To the researcher this paper argues that sustainability concerns need to be provided to IT Management through its integration into the mainstream of IT Management Frameworks. This is demonstrated through the high-level integration of sustainability in Six Sigma, C OBI T, ITIL and PRINCE2
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