This book brings together a wide range of topics in leadership ethics and business ethics. It approaches these topics from the perspective of the humanities as well as the social sciences. About half of the book is on leadership and the other half on topics in business ethics. Besides these general areas of research, the book explores how to teach and study ethics in both business ethics and leadership studies. Specifically, it examines issues ranging from the nature of ethical leadership, to studies of authenticity, virtue, and the public and private morality of leaders. In business ethics, the subjects covered span from moral imagination, to casuistry, meaningful work, and workplace ethics. The book includes a section on the importance of liberal arts for studying and teaching ethics in business and professional schools. It concludes with a reflection on the ethical challenges of leaders and followers in a world where some leaders have inverted moral values.

Discusses one of the most pressing issues of our times: the quality of leaders' ethics in business and all areas of society

Introduction.- About the author.- Acknowledgments.- Part I: The Ethical Challenges of Leadership.- 1 Ethics and Effectiveness: The Nature of Good Leadership.- 2 Habits and Virtues: Does it Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog?.- 3 Did Nero Fiddle While Rome Burned? Why 'Being There' is Essential to Leadership.- 4 Searching for Mandela: The Saint as the Sinner Who Keeps on Trying.- 5 Conversations and Correspondence with James MacGregor Burns on the Ethics of Transforming Leadership.- 6 Dangerous Liaisons: Adultery and the Ethics of Presidential Leadership.- Part II: Business Ethics, and Work.- 7 Business Ethics as Moral Imagination.- 8 Moral Imagination and Truth.- 9 Casuistry and the Case for Business Ethics.- 10 The Importance of Leadership in Shaping Business Values.- 11 Is Business Ethics Getting Better? Business Ethics and Business History.- 12 Leadership and the Problem of Bogus Empowerment.- 13 The Moral Conditions of Work.- Part III: The Liberal Arts and the Humanities.- 14 Liberal Arts and Leadership: How to Design a School of Leadership Studies.- 15 The Two Cultures: The Place of the Humanities in Leadership Studies.- Part IV. Leaders and Followers Today.- 16 Leadership and the Power of Resentment.- 17 Afterword.