Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

by Terry Price

• ISBN13: 9780521837248
• ISBN10: 0521837243
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Why do leaders fail ethically? In this book, Terry L. Price applies a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of immorality in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders can know that a certain kind of behavior is generally required by morality but nonetheless be mistaken as to whether the relevant moral requirement applies to them in a particular situation and whether others are protected by this requirement. Price articulates how leaders make exceptions of themselves, explains how the justificatory force of leadership gives rise to such exception-making, and develops normative prescriptions that leaders should adopt as a response to this feature of their moral psychology.

Author Biography

Terry L. Price is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(11)
1 Volitional and Cognitive Accounts of Ethical Failures in Leadership	12	(16)
2 The Nature of Exception Making	28	(31)
3 Making Exceptions for Leaders	59	(32)
4 Justifying Leadership	91	(32)
5 The Ethics of Authentic Transformational Leadership	123	(24)
6 Change and Responsibility	147	(32)
7 Ignorance, History, and Moral Membership	179	(22)
Works Cited	201	(12)
Index	213

Excerpts

"Why do leaders fail ethically? In Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership, Terry L. Price uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand leader immorality in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders often know that a certain kind of behavior is generally required by morality but are nonetheless mistaken as to whether the relevant moral requirement applies to them in a particular situation and whether others are protected by this requirement." "Price shows how leaders make exceptions of themselves, explains how the justificatory force of leadership gives rise to such exception making, and develops normative prescriptions that leaders should adopt as a response to this feature of their moral psychology."--BOOK JACKET.