عنوان مجله 2 Serial Number 5 2025 05 01 Leadership in Industry 5.0: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda for Future Organizations Leadership in Industry 5.0: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda for Future Organizations 11 21 EN Journal Article <p>This study aimed to explore how leadership is being redefined in the transition toward Industry 5.0 and to develop a research agenda for future organizations centered on human–technology collaboration, resilience, and sustainable value creation. This qualitative study used a systematic review-informed exploratory design based on semi-structured interviews with organizational leaders, digital transformation managers, human resource specialists, and innovation experts in Tehran. Participants were selected through purposive and theoretical sampling to ensure maximum variation in organizational sector, managerial experience, and exposure to advanced digital technologies. Data collection continued until theoretical saturation was reached after 22 interviews. Interviews were conducted face-to-face or online, lasted between 45 and 80 minutes, and focused on leadership capabilities, ethical challenges, employee adaptation, human–AI collaboration, resilience, and future organizational requirements in Industry 5.0. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis with the support of NVivo software. The analysis generated four main categories: human-centric digital leadership, collaborative intelligence and human–AI decision-making, ethical and responsible technology governance, and resilience-oriented organizational transformation. The findings indicated that leadership in Industry 5.0 moves beyond technology adoption and requires leaders to protect human agency, redesign work around collaboration between people and intelligent systems, build ethical safeguards into technological decision-making, and create adaptive organizations capable of responding to uncertainty. Participants emphasized that future leaders must combine technological literacy with emotional intelligence, systems thinking, participatory decision-making, and sustainability-oriented strategic judgment. Leadership in Industry 5.0 represents a shift from efficiency-centered digital leadership toward a human-centered, ethically governed, and resilience-based leadership paradigm. The study contributes to leadership theory by proposing an integrated agenda for examining how leaders can balance automation and augmentation, innovation and responsibility, and digital acceleration and human well-being in future organizations.</p> https://www.msels.com/index.php/msels/article/download/30/28