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Business Ethics in Practice
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Business Ethics in Practice

by Simon Robinson, Paul Dowson
March 2012
Beginner
320 pages
13h 15m
English
CIPD - Kogan Page
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05

leadership and governance

learning outcomes

When you have completed this chapter you will be able to:

  • describe, analyse and critique different theories of leadership

  • describe, analyse and critique different views of ethical leadership

  • describe, analyse and critique unethical leadership practice, as exemplified in the Enron case

  • describe, analyse and critique key ideas of governance and the place of ethics in governance.

introduction

In this chapter we explore what it means to be an ethical leader. A case study on Enron examines unethical leadership. We then look at the meaning of leadership and how ethics relates to it. In particular we examine the ethical problems around the trait theory of leadership, and the value-centred transformational, ...

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