Questions to help define ethical issues and appropriate leadership behaviors.

1. What are specific ethical behaviors that are required of all leaders? 2. What are the consequences if they don’t behave ethically? 3. What are the situations that people that people encounter that could lead them into a grey area? 4. How should grey areas be handled? 5. How should people make decisions when they…

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Why moral principles are in need of reinforcement.

1. Executives can be taught or encouraged to do more than analyze, to step out from behind the finanical analytical lens and come from an issue from the perspective of right and wrong and an appropriate balance of values. 2.A strong ethical leadership needs a strong moral compass.(which is really the right way to think…

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Why ‘Ethos Week’ makes me sleep better!

I had the privilege of being part of an exciting and unique event at Eastern Michigan University last week. The first event of its kind in the country, offered by a business school. “Ethos Week” was created, developed and implemented by undergraduate and graduate students of the College of Business. “Ethos Week is a week-long…

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Moral Leadership and the “Happy Dance”

A recent survey report by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)and the Ethics Resource Center (ERC), “The Ethics Landscape in American Business,” had me out of my desk chair, doing the ‘happy dance.’ The report stated that “ethics can be defined as a philosophy principle concerned with opinions about appropriate and inappropriate moral conduct or…

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