Ethics-Governance: Article: Moral Leadership and Business Ethics by Al Gini

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Moral Leadership and Business Ethics by Al Gini Moral Leadership and Business Ethics by Al Gini klsp: ethics & leadership: moral leadership and business ethics Moral Leadership and Business Ethics By Al Gini, Loyola University Chicago in Ethics & Leadership Working Papers (Academy of Leadership Press, 1996). Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation. -- Thucydides Conventional wisdom has it that two of the most glaring examples of academic oxymorons are the terms "business ethics" and "moral leadership." Neither term carries credibility in popular culture and when conjoined constitutes a "null-set" rather than just a simple contradiction in terms. The reason for this is definitional, but only in part. More significant is that we have so few models of businesses and leaders operating on ethical principles. Simply put, the cliché persists because of the dearth of evidence to the contrary. At best, both these terms remain in the lexicon as wished-for ideals rather than actual states of being. Full Article: http://www.academy.umd.edu/publications/klspdocs/agini_p1.htm


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