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Why Leaders Fail Ethically - A Paradigmatic Evaluation of Leadership (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Why Leaders Fail Ethically - A Paradigmatic Evaluation of Leadership (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Contrary to popular conceptions that ethical failures in leadership
are correlated with economic downturns and other stressful market
conditions, this book argues that such transgressions are an
intrinsic element of leadership, as it is defined under the current
prevailing paradigm. In recent years the crisis of failures in
ethical leadership across organizations, particularly corporations,
has been highlighted more than ever, both in academic discourse and
the public sphere. Psychological maladies leading to higher number
of sick leaves, general feelings of disillusionment among
employees, loss of motivation and employee loyalty, even suicide
(both in Western corporations and in other parts of the world) are
just a few examples of how ethical failures in leadership are
expressed. In order to gain original insight into the phenomenon of
ethical leadership, the author explores the origins and effects of
the current leadership paradigm along two dimensions: (1) a revisit
of the leadership construct from a historical and philosophical
perspective, with a focus on the relationship between theory and
practice; and (2) the theoretical roots of the ethical component of
leadership theories, identifying the reasoning behind the value
system in our paradigm. Subsequently, by linking these constructs
together, a meta-theory emerges suggesting that the three main
ethical departure points of virtue ethics, teleology and deontology
(all of which have emerged during the past three thousand years
through a confluence of the Abrahamic religions' and Greek
value-systems) are the basis for our reasoning about leadership,
its construct and the practice of leadership itself. Challenging
traditional views of ethical leadership, the author goes beyond
theory and philosophy to consider practical implications, including
alternative ways to improve executive recruitment, training, and
involvement of followers in decision-making; experiments like
rotating leadership; and a peek into other paradigms, such as the
Zoroastrianism, hence making an original contribution to the field
of leadership both for scholars and practitioners.
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