MGT 544 - Ethical Leadership

Graduate standing. (3).

Introduction to ethics, central to leadership, and ethical issues that arise in managerial leadership situations. Identification, explanation and discussion of dominant approaches to ethical leadership, including leader-centric approaches (relativism and exceptionalism, reason and amoralism, power and self-interest, traits and virtues) and group-centric approaches (permission and consent, situations and circumstances, membership and moral particularity, the greater good, everyday leadership ethics). Students apply these approaches, both individually and in teams, in ethical leadership exercises. Graded ABCDE. [“”]