The trouble with transformational leadership: toward a federalist ethic for organizations
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Transformational leadership, which seeks to inspire the followers to work for a higher goal forgetting their factional differences, may fail if the interests of various groups and individuals are not taken into account. The possibility of motivating everyone toward collective goals which disregard factional interests in a heterogeneous group is remote, and the inability to do so may lead to authoritarianism. Transformational leadership, which fails to recognize that factional conflicts are endemic to organizations and communities, is compared with James Madison's federalist leadership ethics, which stresses the need to address factional interests in organizations.
Publication Name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 1052-150X
Year: 1995
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Continuing the social contract tradition
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Sophists (5 B.C.) were the first to give a social contract theory when they propounded that social arrangements were not a product of nature but a contract between human beings and that they were culture specific. Locke's proposition of establishment of positive law by mutual consent was meant to challenge the divine rights of kings to absolute power. Recent studies such as that of Donaldson and Dunfee utilizes classical social contract themes to understand the nature and working of organisations and employees.
Publication Name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 1052-150X
Year: 1995
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A "matter of opinion, what tends to the general welfare": governing the workplace
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The claim that a liberal-democratic approach will be best suited to corporate governance in the 21st century is argued. This approach is applied to debates over shareholder-stakeholder accountabilities, and an argument for special accountabilities to employees is made.
Publication Name: Business Ethics Quarterly
Subject: Philosophy and religion
ISSN: 1052-150X
Year: 2000
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