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Moral Leadership

The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgment and Policy

Rhode, Deborah L. (Editor)

J-B Warren Bennis Series

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1. Edition June 2006
400 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-7879-8282-9
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Moral Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume
essays from leading scholars in law, leadership, psychology,
political science, and ethics to provide practical, theoretical
policy guidance. The authors explore key questions about moral
leadership such as:

* How do leaders form, sustain, and transmit moral
commitments?

* Under what conditions are those processes most effective?

* What is the impact of ethics officers, codes, training
programs, and similar initiatives?

* How do standards and practices vary across context and
culture?

* What can we do at the individual, organizational, and societal
level to foster moral leadership?

Throughout the book, the contributors identify what people know,
and only think they know, about the role of ethics in key
decision-making positions. The essays focus on issues such as the
definition and importance of moral leadership and the factors that
influence its exercise, along with practical strategies for
promoting ethical behavior. Moral Leadership addresses the
dynamics of moral leadership, with particular emphasis on major
obstacles that stand in its way: impaired judgment, self-interest,
and power. Finally, the book explores moral leadership in a variety
of contexts?business and the professions, nonprofit organizations,
and the international arena.

Introduction; Where is the Leadership in Moral Leadership? Deborah L. Rhode; Making Sense of Moral Meltdowns, David Luban; Three Practical Challenges of Moral Leadership, Josh Margolis and Andrew Molinsky; Ethical Judgment and Moral Leadership: Three Barriers, David Messick; Morals for Public Officials, Russell Hardin; The Psychology of Power: To the Person? To the Situation? To the System? Philip G. Zimbardo; Taming Power, David Winter; Power and Moral Leadership, Dacher Keltner; Orchestrating Prosocial Motives, Daniel Batson;
Self-Sacrifice and Self-Interest: Do Ethical Values Shape Behavior in Organizational Settings?, Tom R. Tyler
Strategic Philanthropy and its Malcontents, Paul Brest;
Ethics and Philanthropy, Bruce Sievers; Moral Leadership: A Development Agenda for Future Managers, Linda Hill;Perspectives on Global Moral Leadership, Kirk O. Hanson
"Material that needs to be widely read - urgently." (Long Range Planning, 40/2007)

"The role of ethics in the conduct of business, the professions,
and politics is very properly receiving increased attention in a
world characterized by relations among distant and disparate
agents. This pushes to the forefront the moral obligations of
leaders. This book draws together the leading analysts
of moral leadership, and the many aspects of moral leadership are
synthesized in a masterful introduction by the editor."

--Kenneth J. Arrow, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and
professor of operations research, Stanford University; winner
of the Nobel Prize in Economics

"Deborah Rhode and colleagues take aim at the vacuous platitudes
that pass for moral insight in much of today's writing on
leadership. Anyone with a serious interest in moral
leadership will appreciate this headlong dive into its complexities
and challenges."

--Lynn Sharp Paine, John G. McLean Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School; author, Value
Shift

"I am struck by the ability of this collection to tell
us about aspects of human behavior that are surprises to
most of us and aid our understanding of moral
leadership."

--Max H. Bazerman, Straus Professor, Harvard Business School;
author, Predictable Surprises and Judgments in Managerial
Decision Making

"An unusually sophisticated and informative analysis of
the formidable challenge of promoting ethical leadership in
organizations. It deserves to be widely read by both those
who teach and study ethics, and those who aspire to lead and
create more responsible organizations."

--David Vogel, Solomon L. Lee Distinguished Professor
of Business Ethics, Haas School of Business, University of
California, Berkeley; author, The Market for Virtue

"This collection of essays takes a fresh look at one of today's
most urgent concerns, moral leadership in the public domain. The
book is important reading for anyone who believes that moral
leadership may still be possible, even during a time of ethical
degradation in many key social institutions."

--William Damon, professor of education, Stanford
University

"A stellar group of well-known thinkers. A topic of
commanding importance. Articles that make hard ideas
fascinating and readable. What's not to like in this striking
new collection of essays? It is hands-down the best anthology
on practical ethics to appear in many years."

--Thomas Donaldson, Mark O. Winkelman Professor, the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

"The heavy hitters in business ethics are well represented in
this timely volume. Their message is of compelling interest
to scholars and business leaders alike."

--Robert H. Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of
Management Professor of Economics, Cornell University
Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and director of the Stanford Center on Ethics. She is the former director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford University School of Law, the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the former president of the Association of American Law Schools.