Principles of General Management: A responsible approach for southern Africa responds to the need for a resource that provides students entering the fi eld of management for the fi rst time with fresh insights into responsible management. In particular, it is a resource that helps them to become responsible managers and leaders, to be change agents and to act as the human foundation for responsible businesses. It is currently the fi rst and only book written by South Africans for the South African and broader African market and that at the same time integrates the pillars of responsible management into the principal managerial functions.