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The crucial role of the leader of an organization is explored in this book. Examining the various modal orientations of leadership and demonstrating that effective leadership is one in which the leader's behaviours and exercise of influence are consistent with ethical and moral values, the book argues for an end to the traditional separation of personal and public morality. It offers practical strategies for effective leadership, such as employee empowerment, together with suggestions about how leaders can prepare for ethical leadership. Account is also taken of nonwestern sociocultural environments.
Ethical Dimensions of Leadership Influence Processes
Ethical Dimensions of Leadership Influence Processes
A leader performs behaviors to influence the followers. The leadership phenomenon can, thus, be approached from the point of view of the leader's behaviors. What behaviors are typical of effective leaders? Why do leaders perform these behaviors? Answers to these questions provide information on leadership role behaviors and the motives that initiate, direct, and energize these behaviors. This approach to leadership focuses on the leadership phenomenon as a leader-centered construct. It emphasizes the leader's motivational dispositions that trigger and sustain leadership role behaviors. However, the leader's behaviors are designed to influence the followers' values, attitudes, and behaviors. This aspect of the leader role behavior provides the basis of another approach to understanding leadership, which ...
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