Ethics and Leadership

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Ethics and Leadership

• The Challenge of the 21st Century

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Definitions

• Ethics
• A system of moral principles or values
• The study of the general nature of morals and
  moral choices
• The rules of conduct

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Morals

• The principles of tight and wrong in relation to
  human behavior and character
• Teaching correct behavior
• Standards of right or just behavior
• A precept or general truth

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The Difference between Ethics and Morals

• Morality refers to standards of behaviors by
  which people are judged
• Ethics encompasses the system(s) of beliefs that
  support a particular view of morality

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Norms

• Written or unwritten laws, codes, regulations,
  customs, or standards created and maintained to
  control behavior constituting social order.

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Values

• Subjective evaluations of what one actually
  likes, esteems, desires, approves, enjoys, and
  regards as important.

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Culture

• A conceptual descriptor for shared norms and
  values

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Moral Theories

• Sets of assumptions that test and determine right
  and wrong behaviors

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Utilitarianism

• Ends based
• Whatever produces the greatest good for the
  greatest number is right
• Examine the possible results and pick the one
  that produces the most blessings over the
  greatest range
• Political Legislation

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The Categorical Imperative

• Rule based
• Immanuel Kant
• Follow only the principles that you want everyone
  else to follow
• Fixed rules, obligation, and duty
• Act in a way that your actions could become a
  universal standard

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Virtue Ethics

• Care based
• The Golden Rule
• Test your behaviors by putting yourself in
  anothers circumstances imagining how you would
  feel if you were the recipient rather than the
  perpetrator of your behaviors. Empathetic living

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Core Values

• Truth
• Loyalty
• Individual rights
• Community standards
• Short-term consequences
• Long-term consequences
• Justice
• Mercy

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Dilemmas

• Situations or circumstances that involve choosing
  between equally powerful core values

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Dilemma Paradigms

• Truth versus Loyalty
• Individual versus Community
• Short-term versus Long-term
• Justice versus Mercy

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Ethical/Moral Leadership

• What moral theory applies or informs the leader
  best how to decide or act?
• What core values are involved in the situation?
• Do the people, circumstances, and culture provide
  salience to making a choice