Leadership ethics: mapping the territory

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An understanding of the ethics of leadership will greatly enhance leadership studies since ethics forms the core of good leadership. Good leadership means both ethically acceptable and practically effective leadership. Debates on good leadership thus require an examination of its ethical implications. Existing normative theories of leadership, such as transforming leadership and servant leadership, must be developed further through more empirical testing and by strengthening their philosophical bases. Guidelines for further research on leadership studies and an annotated bibliography on such studies are included.

Leadership

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Imagination, fantasy, wishful thinking and truth

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The arts can be used to demonstrate the importance of truth and develop an understanding of moral imagination. Furthermore, the arts provide insights into the relationship between fantasy and moral imagination. In many cases, the truth or falsity of statements about people's perceptions are significant to the morality of an action that they cannot be distinguished from the morality or immorality of the action itself. Therefore, truth is what makes moral imagination moral and differentiates it from fantasy and wishful thinking.

Analysis, Truth, Judgment (Ethics)

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On getting to the future first

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Issues regarding insecure job tenure, the inequality of wages in US business and the challenges for creating a new social and moral employer-employee compact are discussed. Business ethics scholars missed the inception of this problem, because they focused on current problems in business instead of questioning disturbing trends in management thinking.

Social aspects, Wage payment systems, Job security

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