Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Published in:
Leadership and Purpose Read chapter Read first chapter

2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Leadership and Moral Behavior

Author : Timothy Ewest

Published in: Leadership Today

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

Even though leadership theories are diverse, one notable commonality among leadership theories is that they inculcate the importance of moral behavior. This chapter explores moral leadership by providing brief contextual considerations regarding morals, outlines the most commonly used moral theories, examines each moral theory’s strength and weakness, discusses the connection between moral theories and leadership theories by examining contextual considerations for the discussion, and discusses the central role of pro-social values in both morals and leadership theories, and then the chapter resolves with a case study and a simple moral test. This chapter will promote the idea that moral leaders act in ways that seek the welfare of others, even at personal cost.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
previous chapter Leadership and Trust
next chapter Leadership and Values
Footnotes
1
Most regard social contract theory as a political philosophy.
 
2
With the possible exception of virtue moral theory
 
Literature
Avolio, B. J., & Locke, E. E. (2002). Contrasting different philosophies of leader motivation: Altruism versus egoism. The Leadership Quarterly, 13(2), 169–191.CrossRef
Beirhoff, H. W. (2002). Social psychology: A modular course (pro-social behavior). New York: Psychology Press.
Beirhoff, H. W., Klien, R., & Kramp, P. (1991). Evidence for the altruistic personality from data on accident research. Journal of Personality, 59, 263–280.CrossRef
Burford, N. (2014). Decolonizing pedagogy: Critical consciousness and its impact on schooling for black students (Doctoral dissertation). Toronto: University of Toronto, College of Humanities.
Burns, J. M. (1978). Leadership New York. NY: Harper and Row Publishers.
Cahn, S., & Markie, P. (2011). Ethics: History, theory, and contemporary issues. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ciulla, J. B. (2001). Carving leaders from the warped wood of humanity. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 18(4), 313–319.CrossRef
Ewest, T. (2015a). Transformational leadership practices and global social responsibility. Journal of Leadership Studies, 9(3), 19–27.CrossRef
Ewest, T. (2015). Christian identity as the primary foundation to workplace ethics. Religions, (2015), 12.
Fry, L. W. (2003). Toward a theory of spiritual leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 14(6), 693–727.CrossRef
George, B. (2003). Authentic leadership: Rediscovering the secrets to creating lasting value. New York: Wiley.
Gill, R. (2014). A textbook of christian ethics. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Grant, A. (2012). Leading with meaning: Beneficiary contact, prosocial impact, and the performance effects of transformational leadership. Academy of Management Journal, 55(2), 458–476.CrossRef
Greenleaf, R. K. (1997). The servant as leader. University of Notre Dame Press.
Hastings, P. D., Zahn-Waxler, C., Robinson, J., Usher, B., & Bridges, D. (2000). The development of concern for others in children with behavior problems. Developmental Psychology, 36, 531–546.CrossRef
Hernaandez, M., Eberly, M., Avolio, B., & Johnson, M. (2011). The loci and mechanisms of leadership: Exploring a more comprehensive leadership theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 22, 1165–1185.CrossRef
Irwin, T. (1999). Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Johnson, C. E. (2013). Meeting the ethical challenges of leadership: Casting light or shadow. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Kanungo, R. N. (2001). Ethical values of transactional and transformational leaders. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 18(4), 257–265.CrossRef
Kidder, R. M. (1995). How good people make tough choices: Resolving the dilemmas of ethical living. New York: Fireside.
Komives, S. R., & Wagner, W. (2012). Leadership for a better world: Understanding the social change model of leadership development. New York: Wiley.
Northhouse, P. (2015). Leadership: Theory and practice. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Omoto, A. M., & Snyder, M. (1995). Sustained helping without obligation: Motivation, longevity of service, and perceived attitude change among AIDS volunteers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 671–686.CrossRef
Patron, H. (1971). The categorical imperative: A study in Kant’s moral philosophy. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Rokeach, M. (1973). The nature of human values. New York: Free Press.
Russell, D. (2013). The Cambridge companion to virtue ethics (Cambridge companions to philosophy). New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Schwartz, S. (1994). Are there universal aspects in the structure and contents of human values? Journal of Social Issues, 50(4), 19–45.CrossRef
Skyrms, B. (1996). Evolution of the social contract. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Stackhouse, M. (1995). Introductions foundations and purpose. In M. Stackhouse, D. McCann, S. Roels, & P. Williams (Eds.), On moral business: Classical and contemporary resources for ethics in economic life. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans.
Treviño, L. K., Brown, M., & Hartman, L. P. (2003). A qualitative investigation of perceived executive ethical leadership: Perceptions from inside and outside the executive suite. Human Relations, 56(1), 5–37.CrossRef
Ulrich, P. (2002). Ethics and economics. In L. Zsolnai (Ed.), Ethics in the economy. Handbook of business ethics (pp. 9–36). Bern: Peter Lang Academic.
Warburton, N. (2012). Philosophy: The basics (5th ed.). London, UK: Routledge.
Yukl, G. A. (1989). Managerial leadership: A review of theory and research. Yearly Review of Management, 15(4), 251–289.
Metadata
Title
Leadership and Moral Behavior
Author
Timothy Ewest
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Leadership Today

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-31034-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-31036-7

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31036-7_3