Ethics, Moral Agency and Moral Leadership

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Ethics, Moral Agency andMoral Leadership
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LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• Delegation
• Qualities of a good leader
• Ethical leadership
• Accountability
• Team building

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Ethics

• An inquiry into the justification of particular
  actions as well as a search for traits of moral
  character that promote human flourishing
• A study of who we ought to be and how we should
  make decisions in light of our identity, who we
  say we are.

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Moral Agency?

• Moral agency is the capacity to habitually act in
  a manner consistent with moral integrity.
  It entails a certain set of competencies in
  matters ethical as well as
  moral character and motivation
• At the end of the day is our world, the lives of
  those we encountered during the day, better for
  having met us?
• Am I better or worse at the end of the day?

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Moral Agency

• Moral Sensibility
• Moral Responsiveness
• Moral Reasoning

• Moral Accountability
• Moral Character
• Moral Valuing

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Moral Integrity

• A condition or in which moral activity (valuing,
  choosing, acting) is intimately linked to a
  particular conception of the Good, the Good Life.
• Who are you when no one is looking?
• One becomes what one repeatedly does
• Aristotle

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Moral Integrity

• Commitment to developing and owning a concept of
  the GOOD.
• Reflection
• Whom do I serve?

• What is reasonable for them to expect of me? What
  are the promises I have made to them?
• How well am I meeting the expectations, being
  faithful to the promises?
• How is vision I have of my mission consistent
  with my behavior?

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Moral Integrity

• Practicing valuing, choosing, acting according
  to your concept of what fidelity to the good/good
  life demands

• Reflecting on the consequences of honoring or
  dishonoring ones integrity

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Moral Leadership

• Leaderships is the ability to direct or motivate
  an individual or group to achieve set goals.
• Institutional moral leadership is the ability to
  direct or motivate an individual or group to
  achieve moral integrity in the pursuit of common
  institutional goals. Carol Taylor,2003

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Hallmarks of Successful Institutional Moral
Leadership

• Explicit and common moral vision
• Mission and core values are clearly articulated
  communicated
• Mission-focused practices
• Moral agency is a norm

• Leaders/managers
• Articulate rules
• Recognize respond to challenges/threats to
  integrity
• Structures and policies facilitate moral
  integrity
• Institutional ethos/culture supports people doing
  the right thing for the right reason