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Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition
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Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

by Montgomery Van Wart, Paul Suino, Pamela S. Medina
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
15h 22m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 6Ethics-Based Leadership Theories

DOI: 10.4324/9781003261896-7

Ethics-based approaches generally provide a stark contrast to many traditional approaches in leadership studies that focus on either the descriptive realities of leader-centric systems or the importance of leaders influencing others through their personal charisma, vision, and skill. Such power-based or “heroic” approaches assume that the primary source of wisdom is the leader or that knowledge is for the leader's benefit; that the leader is implicitly the most critical and important decision-maker; and that the leader's success is the principal consideration. In contrast, ethics-based approaches assume that the leader is not likely to have all wisdom. Frequently, they ...

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