Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

Author/Contributor(s):	Price, Terry ; MacLean, Douglas
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	08/22/2005
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Why do leaders fail ethically? In this book, Terry L. Price uses a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of immorality in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders can know that a certain kind of behavior is generally required by morality but still be mistaken as to whether the relevant moral requirement applies to them in a particular situation and whether others are protected by this requirement. Price demonstrates how leaders make exceptions of themselves, explains how the justificatory force of leadership gives rise to such exception-making, and develops normative protocols that leaders should adopt.