- Title
- Ethics and Leadership
- Creator
- Larkin, Roslyn; Burgess, John; Montague, Alan
- Relation
- Organizational Leadership p. 103-122
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The CEOs of sportswear multinational companies such as Nike, Adidas, Puma and Reebok have long been held responsible for some of the most unethical employment conditions in the world, coming under attack for social dumping (moving production from the home country to those with lower wages) and sweatshop employment abuses. After 20 years, relentless pressure from anti-sweatshop campaigners and global boycotts of products have finally convinced corporations such as Nike to recognize fair labour standards and re-think the level of transparency offered into their own and their suppliers' operations. Such practices pose questions about motive and rationality, but they also raise ethical issues about what constitutes ethical leadership. So, what does it mean to be a 'good' leader, where good is defined as both effective and ethical? Such questions have been the focus of enquiry into ethical or moral approaches to leadership over recent years (Lemoine et al., 2019). This chapter will consider questionable individual and organizational leadership practices from an ethical perspective. It begins by examining the meaning of the term 'ethical leadership' and explores the topic from a range of perspectives and rationales to present competing concepts concerning ethical leadership. Using international case studies, the chapter examines the presence or absence of ethical behaviours in organizations.
- Subject
- ethical leadership; philosophical approaches; responsible behaviour; millennial leadership
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1477015
- Identifier
- uon:49909
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781526460110
- Language
- eng
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