Leadership Ethics An Introduction

Name: Leadership Ethics An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521699112

ISBN-10: 0521699118

ISBN-13: 9780521699112

Edition: 2009

Authors: Terry L. Price

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Are leaders morally special? Is there something ethically distinctive about the relationship between leaders and followers? Should leaders do whatever it takes to achieve group goals? Leadership Ethics uses moral theory, as well as empirical research in psychology, to evaluate the reasons everyday leaders give to justify breaking the rules. Written for people without a background in philosophy, it introduces readers to the moral theories that are relevant to leadership ethics: relativism, amoralism, egoism, virtue ethics, social contract theory, situation ethics, communitarianism, and cosmopolitan theories such as utilitarianism and transformational leadership. Unlike many introductory…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.82" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Terry L. Price is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond. He has contributed to American Philosophical Quarterly, The Encyclopedia of Leadership, and The Journal of Political Philosophy, and is editor, with J. Thomas Wren and Douglas A. Hicks, of the three-volume reference set The International Library of Leadership.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Leader-Centric Approaches



Relativism and Exceptionalism



Reason and Amoralism



Power and Self-Interest



Traits and Virtues



Group-Centric Approaches



Permission and Consent



Situations and Circumstances



Membership and Moral Particularity



The Greater Good



Everyday Leadership Ethics


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Works Cited


Index