leadership

1. Ethics and Leadership
The Challenge of
the 21st Century

2. Definitions
 Ethics
 A system of moral principles or
values
 The study of the general nature
of morals and moral choices
 The rules of conduct

3. Morals
 The principles of tight and wrong in
relation to human behavior and
character
 Teaching correct behavior
 Standards of right or just behavior
 A precept or general truth

4. The Difference between Ethics
and Morals
 Morality refers to standards
of behaviors by which people
are judged
 Ethics encompasses the
system(s) of beliefs that
support a particular view of
morality

5. Norms
 Written or unwritten laws,
codes, regulations, customs,
or standards created and
maintained to control
behavior constituting social
order.

6. Values
 Subjective evaluations
of what one actually
likes, esteems, desires,
approves, enjoys, and
regards as important.

7. Culture
A conceptual
descriptor for
shared norms and
values

8. Moral Theories
Sets of assumptions
that test and
determine right and
wrong behaviors

9. Utilitarianism
 Ends based
 Whatever produces the greatest good
for the greatest number is right
 Examine the possible results and pick
the one that produces the most
blessings over the greatest range
 Political Legislation

10. The Categorical Imperative
 Rule based
 Immanuel Kant
 Follow only the principles that you want
everyone else to follow
 Fixed rules, obligation, and duty
 Act in a way that your actions could
become a universal standard

11. Virtue Ethics
 Care based
 The Golden Rule
 Test your behaviors by putting yourself
in another’s circumstances imagining
how you would feel if you were the
recipient rather than the perpetrator of
your behaviors. Empathetic living

12. Core Values
 Truth
 Loyalty
 Individual rights
 Community standards
 Short-term consequences
 Long-term consequences
 Justice
 Mercy

13. Dilemmas
 Situations or circumstances
that involve choosing
between equally powerful
core values

14. Dilemma Paradigms
 Truth versus Loyalty
 Individual versus Community
 Short-term versus Long-term
 Justice versus Mercy

15. Ethical/Moral Leadership
 What moral theory applies or
informs the leader best how to
decide or act?
 What core values are involved in
the situation?
 Do the people, circumstances,
and culture provide salience to
making a choice