Overview
- Explores the dynamics of leadership from philosophical, ethical and historical perspectives
- Analyses the evolution and shortcoming of the current western leadership paradigm
- Shows how to apply theory to practical aspects of leadership
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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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Book Title: Why Leaders Fail Ethically
Book Subtitle: A Paradigmatic Evaluation of Leadership
Authors: Cameron A. Batmanghlich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12733-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12732-3Published: 09 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37921-0Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12733-0Published: 25 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 144
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Human Resource Management, Ethics