Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Price brings a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of why leaders fail ethically. Zusammenfassung Price brings a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of why leaders fail ethically in the public! private! and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders acknowledge moral requirements but are mistaken as to their applicability and relevance in particular situations! allowing themselves exceptions to this rule. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Volitional and cognitive accounts of ethical failures in leadership; 2. The nature of exception making; 3. Making exceptions for leaders; 4. Justifying leadership; 5. The ethics of authentic transformational leadership; 6. Change and responsibility; 7. Ignorance, history, and moral membership.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Price, Terry (University of Richmond) Price, Price Terry
• Assisted by: Douglas Maclean (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2005
• EAN: 9780521545976
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54597-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Business ethics & social responsibility, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Sociology & anthropology, Business ethics and social responsibility, Sociology and anthropology, العلوم الاجتماعية;الفلسفة ;حقوق الإنسان