Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership : Casting Light or Shadow
ISBN: 9781412964814 | 1412964814
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 7/23/2008
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'Comprehensive and a must read.' - Dr. Patricia Mitchell, University of San FranciscoMeeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow, Third Edition identifies the unique ethical demands of leadership and then equips readers to meet these challenges. This new edition retains the elements of the text that have contributed to its success while broadening its appeal. Written in an informal, accessible style, author Craig E. Johnson takes an interdisciplinary approach to leadership ethics while blending research and theory wi... MORE
| The Shadow Side of Leadership | |
| Introduction | |
| Fallen Leaders | |
| Defining Terms | |
| Notes | |
| The Leader's Light or Shadow | |
| What's Ahead | |
| A Dramatic Difference | |
| The Leader's Shadows | |
| The Shadow of Power | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies: The Life and Death of People's Temple | |
| Self-Assessment:Brutal Boss Questionnaire | |
| The Shadow of Privilege | |
| The Shadow of Mismanaged Information | |
| Case Study: Hiding the Truth: Friendly Fire and the Death of Pat Tillman | |
| The Shadow of Inconsistency | |
| The Shadow of Misplaced and Broken Loyalties | |
| The Shadow of Irresponsibility | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics:The Dark Side of Followership | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case: Casting Shadows at Enron | |
| Chapter End Case: It Pays to Be an Executive: The Stock Options Scandal | |
| Notes | |
| Shadow Casters | |
| What's Ahead | |
| Shadow Casters | |
| Unhealthy Motivations | |
| Internal Enemies or Monsters | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics:Follower Motivations and the Dangers of Toxic Leadership | |
| Selfishness | |
| Faulty Decision Making | |
| Inactive or Overactive Moral Imagination | |
| Ethical Deficiencies | |
| Case Study: The Multiplied Missing Children | |
| Contextual Pressures | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies:The Devil Wears Prada | |
| Stepping Out of the Shadows: Expanding Our Ethical Capacity | |
| Self-Assessment:Ethical Self-Awareness Instrument | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case: Napoleon Marches Again: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal | |
| Chapter End Case: The Ethical Saga of Salomon, Inc. | |
| Notes | |
| Looking Inward | |
| The Leader's Character | |
| What's Ahead | |
| Elements of Character | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics: The Courageous Follower | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies: The Last King of Scotland | |
| Character Building | |
| Finding Role Models | |
| Case Study: The Hero as Optimist: Explorer Ernest Shackleton | |
| Hardship | |
| Telling and Living Collective Stories | |
| Habits | |
| Mission Statements | |
| Values | |
| Self-Assessment:Instrumental and Terminal Values | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case: "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and "Mensch" Aaron Feuerstein | |
| Chapter End Case:The Greatest Reformer in History | |
| Notes | |
| Combating Evil | |
| What's Ahead | |
| The Faces of Evil | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics:Resisting Pressures to Do Evil: A Ten-Step Program | |
| Making a Case for Forgiveness | |
| Breaking the Cycle of Evil | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies:Munich | |
| Case Study:To Forgive or Not to Forgive? | |
| The Forgiveness Process | |
| Self Assessment: Tendency to Forgive Scale | |
| Spirituality and Leadership | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case: Genocide in Slow Motion | |
| Chapter End Case: Covering Up Evil | |
| Notes | |
| Ethical Standards and Strategies | |
| General Ethical Perspectives | |
| What's Ahead | |
| Utilitarianism: Do the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics: Whistle Blowing: Ethical Tension Points | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies:The Guardian | |
| Kant's Categorical Imperative: Do What's Right No Matter What the Cost | |
| Fairness as Justice: Guaranteeing Equal Rights and Opportunities Behind the Veil | |
| Self-Assessment: Organizational Justice Scale | |
| Case Study 5.1: | |
| Equal Justice for All? The Jena Six | |
| Communitarianism: Shoulder Your Responsibilities/Seek the Common Good | |
| Altruism: Love Your Neighbor | |
| Ethical Pluralism | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case:The Battle Over the Cervical Cancer Vaccine | |
| Chapter End Case:Curing One Patient at a Time | |
| Notes | |
| Normative Leadership Theories | |
| What's Ahead | |
| Transformational Leadership: Leadership Ethics at the Movies:Coach Carter | |
| Self-Assessment:Perceived Leader Integrity Scale | |
| Servant Leadership | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics:Servant Followership | |
| Authentic Leadership | |
| Case Study:The Airline Executive as "Mom in Chief" | |
| Taoism | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case:Transforming Clear Lake College | |
| Chapter End Case:Betraying the Student Borrower | |
| Notes | |
| Ethical Decision-Making and Behavior | |
| What's Ahead | |
| Components of Moral Action | |
| Moral Sensitivity (Recognition) | |
| Moral Judgment | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies:The Lives of Others | |
| Moral Motivation | |
| Moral Character | |
| Decision-Making Formats | |
| Kidder's Ethical Checkpoints | |
| Case Study:The Terminal Patient | |
| Nash's Twelve Questions | |
| Self-Assessment:The Gift | |
| The SAD Formula | |
| The Case Study Method | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case:Ethical Scenarios for Analysis | |
| Notes | |
| Shaping Ethical Contexts | |
| Building an Effective, Ethical Small Group | |
| What's Ahead | |
| The Leader and the Small Group | |
| Case Study 8.1:Tougher Standards for All Terrain Vehicles? | |
| Fostering Ethical Accountability | |
| Resisting Groupthink | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics:Avoiding False Agreement: The Abilene Paradox | |
| Promoting Enlightening Communication | |
| Seeking Dialogue | |
| Comprehensive/Critical Listening | |
| Defensive vs. Supportive Communication | |
| Productive Conflict | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies:A Few Good Men | |
| Engaging in Effective Argument | |
| Self-Assessment:Argumentativeness Scale | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case:Incentives for Organ Donations | |
| Chapter End Case:Responding to Groupthink and Faulty Reasoning at NASA | |
| Notes | |
| Creating an Ethical Organizational Climate | |
| What's Ahead | |
| The Leader as Ethics Officer | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies: Breach | |
| Ethical Climates | |
| Signs of Healthy Ethical Climates | |
| Zero Tolerance for Destructive Behaviors | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics: The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse | |
| Integrity | |
| Process Focus (Concern for Means and Ends) | |
| Structural Reinforcement | |
| Social Responsibility | |
| Climate Building Tools | |
| Shared Values | |
| Core Ideology | |
| Self-Assessment: Mars Group Technique | |
| Adoption Process (VAP) | |
| Codes of Ethics | |
| Case Study: Cutting Corners at the University | |
| Continuous Ethical Improvement | |
| The Need for Ongoing Ethical Learning | |
| Enhancing Organizational Ethical Learning | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Chapter End Case: The High Cost or Ethical Neutrality | |
| Chapter End Case: Agenda for Change at the Air Force Academy | |
| Notes | |
| Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Diversity | |
| What's Ahead | |
| Promoting Diversity in the Organization: An Ethical Imperative | |
| Case Study 10.1: Diversity Pushback | |
| Self-Assessment:The Diversity Perceptions Scale | |
| Mastering the Ethical Challenges of Leadership in a Global Society | |
| The Dark Side of Globalization | |
| The Global Shadow of Power | |
| The Global Shadow of Privilege | |
| The Global Shadow of Deceit | |
| The Global Shadow of Inconsistency | |
| The Global Shadow of Misplaced and Broken Loyalties | |
| The Global Shadow of Irresponsibility | |
| Leadership and Ethical Diversity | |
| Leadership Ethics at the Movies: Letters from Iwo Jima | |
| Cultural Differences and Ethical Values | |
| Defining Culture | |
| Programmed Values Patterns | |
| Project GLOBE | |
| Focus on Follower Ethics: Follower Obligations in Cross-Cultural Leader/Follower Relationships | |
| Standing on Common Moral Ground | |
| A Global Ethic | |
| Eight Global Values | |
| The Peace Ethic | |
| The Global Business Standards Codex | |
| The Caux Principles | |
| Making Ethical Choices in Culturally Diverse Settings: Integrated Social Contracts Theory | |
| Implications and Applications | |
| For Further Exploration, Challenge and Self-Assessment | |
| Case Study: Google Meets the Great Firewall of China | |
| Case Study: Ethical Diversity Scenarios | |
| Notes | |
| Epilogue | |
| References | |
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