Leadership and Ethics: Virtue Ethics as a Model for Leadership Development

Leadership: Where organization studies meet ethics

Leadership Studies is a new interdisciplinary field of Organization Studies that is growing at a steady rate all over the world. Leadership studies are seen as a branch of Management and Organization Sciences despite its philosophical roots that can be traced back to Plato’s philosophical writings such as Laws, Politics, or The Republic. Starting from Burns’ seminal book, Leadership (1978), and...

Leadership, Ethics and Responsibility to the Other

Of recent time, there has been a proliferation of concerns with ethical leadership within corporate business not least because of the numerous scandals at Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat, and two major Irish banks – Allied Irish Bank (AIB) and National Irish Bank (NIB). These have not only threatened the position of many senior corporate managers but also the financial survival of some of the compani...

A Role for Business Schools in Leadership, Futures and Ethics

The essay first outlines the inclusion of futures in the programs at the author's business school, then sets out some of the arguments in favour of this practice, and what this might mean for the way business operates. Futures studies have become accepted and play a legitimate role in our programs. In these programs the foundation of futures thinking / futures studies is simple: What kind of wo...

Leadership in ethics: where is CDA?

Virtue Ethics for Christians

If one would tackle any major problem in life it is helpful to observe the comprehensive nature of the thing from an external vantage point before diving into the gritty details. This is also described as grasping the “big picture” or getting a birds-eye-view on the problem. I think that this holistic approach is helpful when dealing with ethical issues as well. In this paper I will first defin...