Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

By Terry Price

Book Overview

Why do leaders fail ethically? In this book, Terry L. Price applies 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 nonetheless 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 articulates how leaders make exceptions of themselves, explains how the justificatory force of leadership gives rise to such exception-making, and develops normative prescriptions that leaders should adopt as a response to this feature of their moral psychology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521837243
• ISBN13: 9780521837248
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"