This Caucus addresses this year’s Academy of Management “Innovating for the Future” conference theme as it brings the emerging topic of inclusive leadership and voice as a lens for rethinking conventional ways of leading and managing people and organizations towards innovation. The aim of this Caucus is to encourage the development of a community that creates new ideas about inclusive leadership and voice for driving organizational innovation across international boundaries. In this Caucus, we will: Firstly, discuss the challenges of the conventional ways of leading and managing people in organizations from a leadership and voice perspective. Secondly, introduce the concepts of inclusive leadership and inclusive voice. Thirdly, debate the role of organizational leaders and of HR in creating inclusive cultures directed at innovation through leadership and voice for all employees and workers. Fourthly, discuss research avenues that can progress this field by capturing data from an international comparative perspective.
