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Moral Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume essays from leading scholars in law, leadership, psychology, political science, and ethics to provide practical, theoretical policy guidance. The authors explore key questions about moral leadership such as: How do leaders form, sustain, and transmit moral commitments?Under what conditions are those processes most effective?What is the impact of ethics officers, codes, training programs, and similar initiatives?How do standards and practices vary across context and culture?What can we do at the individual, organizational, and societal level to foster moral leadership?Throughout the book, the contributors identify what people know, and only think they know, about the role of ethics in key decision-making positions. The essays focus on issues such as the definition and importance of moral leadership and the factors that influence its exercise, along with practical strategies for promoting ethical behavior. Moral Leadership addresses the dynamics of moral leadership, with particular emphasis on major obstacles that stand in its way: impaired judgment, self-interest, and power. Finally, the book explores moral leadership in a variety of contexts?business and the professions, nonprofit organizations, and the international arena.
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Moral Leadership The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgment, and Policy
Deborah L. Rhode Editor Foreword by Warren Bennis
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Praise for Moral Leadership
“This collection of essays takes a fresh look at one of today’s most urgent concerns: moral leadership in the public domain. The book is important reading for anyone who believes that moral leadership may still be possible, even during a time of ethical degradation in many key social institutions.” —William Damon, professor of education, Stanford University
“A stellar group of well-known thinkers. A topic of commanding importance. Articles that make hard ideas fascinating and readable. What’s not to like in this striking new collection of essays? It is hands-down the best anthology on practical ethics to appear in many years.” —Thomas Donaldson, Mark O. Winkelman Professor, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
“The heavy hitters in business ethics are well represented in this timely volume. Their message is of compelling interest to scholars and business leaders alike.” —Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and professor of economics, Cornell University
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A WARREN BENNIS BOOK This collection of books is devoted exclusively to new and exemplary contributions to management thought and practice. The books in this series are addressed to thoughtful leaders, executives, and managers of all organizations who are struggling with and committed to responsible change. My hope and goal is to spark new intellectual capital by sharing ideas positioned at an angle to conventional thought—in short, to publish books that disturb the present in the service of a better future.
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