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Title: Ethics, Moral Agency and Moral Leadership


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Ethics, Moral Agency andMoral Leadership
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LEADERSHIP SKILLS
  • Delegation
  • Qualities of a good leader
  • Ethical leadership
  • Accountability
  • Team building

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Ethics
  • An inquiry into the justification of particular
    actions as well as a search for traits of moral
    character that promote human flourishing
  • A study of who we ought to be and how we should
    make decisions in light of our identity, who we
    say we are.

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Moral Agency?
  • Moral agency is the capacity to habitually act in
    a manner consistent with moral integrity.
    It entails a certain set of competencies in
    matters ethical as well as
    moral character and motivation
  • At the end of the day is our world, the lives of
    those we encountered during the day, better for
    having met us?
  • Am I better or worse at the end of the day?

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Moral Agency
  • Moral Sensibility
  • Moral Responsiveness
  • Moral Reasoning
  • Moral Accountability
  • Moral Character
  • Moral Valuing

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Moral Integrity
  • A condition or in which moral activity (valuing,
    choosing, acting) is intimately linked to a
    particular conception of the Good, the Good Life.
  • Who are you when no one is looking?
  • One becomes what one repeatedly does
  • Aristotle

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Moral Integrity
  • Commitment to developing and owning a concept of
    the GOOD.
  • Reflection
  • Whom do I serve?
  • What is reasonable for them to expect of me? What
    are the promises I have made to them?
  • How well am I meeting the expectations, being
    faithful to the promises?
  • How is vision I have of my mission consistent
    with my behavior?

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Moral Integrity
  • Practicing valuing, choosing, acting according
    to your concept of what fidelity to the good/good
    life demands
  • Reflecting on the consequences of honoring or
    dishonoring ones integrity

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Moral Leadership
  • Leaderships is the ability to direct or motivate
    an individual or group to achieve set goals.
  • Institutional moral leadership is the ability to
    direct or motivate an individual or group to
    achieve moral integrity in the pursuit of common
    institutional goals. Carol Taylor,2003

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Hallmarks of Successful Institutional Moral
Leadership
  • Explicit and common moral vision
  • Mission and core values are clearly articulated
    communicated
  • Mission-focused practices
  • Moral agency is a norm
  • Leaders/managers
  • Articulate rules
  • Recognize respond to challenges/threats to
    integrity
  • Structures and policies facilitate moral
    integrity
  • Institutional ethos/culture supports people doing
    the right thing for the right reason
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