Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership

Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership explores the ethical demands of leadership by blending research and theory with practical application, helping students to increase their ethical competence and leadership abilities.

The Sixth Edition includes new and expanded coverage of key topics such as leader hypocrisy, moral identity, ethics of virtual teams and ethical decision making. There are also new self-assessment activities related to narcissism, apology, altruism, social loafing, moral foundations theory, and corporate Samaritans which can be found at the end of each chapter.

A new chapter on Exercising leader influence introduces students to the ethical issues surrounding leader influence tools, and a total of 17 new case studies, including Amazon, Volkswagen and Malala Youzarif, provide contemporary evidence of ethical (and unethical) leadership.

The book is complimented by a companion website featuring a range of tools and resources for lecturers and students, including PowerPoint slides, Testbank, teaching notes, sample course syllabi, an instructor’s manual and access to full-text SAGE Journal articles.

Suitable reading for students studying on leadership courses.