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Leadership Ethics - Module Reading List

Introductory / General

Core Reading

• Ciulla, Joanne B., ed. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership. 3rd edition. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2014. Chapter 1 – “Leadership Ethics – Expanding the Territory” Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva 

• Which is an updated version of: Ciulla, Joanne B. ‘Leadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory’. Business ethics quarterlyISSN: 1052-150X 5, no. 1 (1995): 5–28.

•  Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (2008) The powers to leadISBN: 9780195335620 (hardback : alk. paper); 0195335627 (hardback : alk. paper), New York: Oxford University Press. Ch 5 “Good and Bad Leaders”.

• Gardner, John W. On leadership : with a preface to the paperback editionISBN: 0029113121. New York, NY: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster Inc.), 1990. Chapter 7 - “The Moral Dimension”.

Additional

• Burns, James MacGregor. LeadershipISBN: 0061319759. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1978. Chapter 2 - “The Structure of Moral Leadership”.

• Gill, Roger (2006) Theory and practice of leadershipISBN: 0761971777 (pbk) : £22.99; 0761971769, London: Sage. Esp. ch. 5. (also ch.4 on Vision and Strategic Direction)

• Northouse, Peter G. (2007) Leadership: Theory and Practice, London: Sage. Esp. ch.14.

• Ciulla, Joanne B. (2002) The ethics of leadershipISBN: 0155063170, Wadsworth.

• Covey, S.R. (1990) Principle-centered leadership, New York: Fireside.

• Greenleaf, R.K. (1977) Servant leadership : a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatnessISBN: 0809125277, New York: Paulist.

• Kanungo, R.N. and Mendonca, M. (1996) Ethical dimensions of leadershipISBN: 0803957882 (pbk. : alk. paper ; cloth : alk. paper); 0803957874, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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Topic 1 – Legitimate Authority

Core Reading

• Wolff, Jonathan. An Introduction to Political Philosophy. 2nd Revised edition edition. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006. Chapter 2 - “Justifying the State”. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva    

• Jackson, Jennifer. Ethics in medicineISBN: 074562569x (pbk.) : £15.99; 0745625681: Virtue, Vice and Medicine. Polity, 2006. Chapter 6 - “The Duties to Obtain Consent, Give Information and Respect Autonomy”. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

• Greenleaf, Robert K. Servant leadership : a journey into the nature of legitimate power and greatnessISBN: 0809125277. 25th Anniversary Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2002 [originally published: 1977]. Chapter 1 - “The Servant as Leader”. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Additional

• Simmons, A. John. ‘Justification and Legitimacy’. Ethics.ISSN: 0014-1704 109, no. 4 (1999): 739–771.

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Topic 2 – Leaders, Organisational Culture and Responsibility.

Core Reading

• Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. 3.1, 1109b30-1111b3.

• Excerpt from Hart, HLA. Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

• Hartman, Laura P., Joseph R. Desjardins, and Chris Macdonald. Business ethics : decision-making for personal integrity and social responsibilityISBN: 9780078029455 (pbk.) : £86.99. 3 edition. Dubuque: McGraw-Hill Education, 2013. Chapter 4 - “The Corporate Culture—Impact and Implications” ;

  • OR Desjardins, Joseph R. An introduction to business ethics. 3 edition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008. Chapter 4 - “Corporate Culture, Governance, and Ethical Leadership”.

• Fischer, John Martin, and Mark Ravizza. Responsibility and control : a theory of moral responsibilityISBN: 0521480558. Cambridge university press, 2000. Chapter 4 - “Responsibility for Consequences”. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva  

Additional

• Baxter, Jim, James Dempsey, Chris Megone, and Jongseok Lee. ‘Real Integrity - Practical Solutions for Organisations Seeking to Promote and Encourage Integrity’. London: Institued of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Charitable Trust, 2012. https://www.icaew.com/~/media/corporate/files/technical/ethics/real%20integrity%20full%20report.ashx.

• Fischer, John Martin, and Mark Ravizza. Responsibility and control : a theory of moral responsibilityISBN: 0521480558. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Haji, Ishtiyaque. Moral appraisability : puzzles, proposals, and perplexitiesISBN: 0195114744 (cloth : alk. paper). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

• Swinburne, Richard. Responsibility and atonementISBN: 0198248490. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1989. Chapter 2 - “Moral Responsibility and Weakness of Will”.

• Gardner, John. ‘Review of: Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age by Kutz, Christopher’. Ethics.ISSN: 0014-1704 114, no. 4 (2004): 827–30. doi:10.1086/420729.

• Kutz, Christopher. Complicity : Ethics and law for a collective ageISBN: 0521039703; 9780521039703. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Topic 3 – Theories of Good Leadership

Core Reading

• Keeley, Michael. ‘The Trouble with Transformational Leadership: Toward a Federalist Ethic for Organizations’. Business ethics quarterlyISSN: 1052-150X 5, no. 1 (1995): 67–96; reprinted in Ciulla, Joanne B., ed. Ethics, the Heart of Leadership. 3rd edition. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2014.

• Northouse, Peter G., ed. Leadership: Theory and Practice. Fourth Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2006. Chapter 1 – Introduction. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

Additional

• Goleman, Daniel. ‘Leadership That Gets Results’. Harvard business review.ISSN: 0017-8012 78, no. 2 (3 April 2000): 78–90.

• Lewin, Kurt, Ronald Lippitt, and Ralph K. White. ‘Patterns of Aggressive Behavior in Experimentally Created “social Climates”’. The Journal of Social Psychology.ISSN: 0022-4545 10, no. 2 (1939): 269–299. (The original source for the distinction between “autocratic”, “democratic” and “laissez-faire” leadership styles.)

• Beer, Michael, and Nitin Nohria. ‘Cracking the Code of Change’. Harvard business review.ISSN: 0017-8012 15 (2000): 133–41.

• Mayer, Robert. ‘What’s Wrong with Exploitation?’ Journal of applied philosophy.ISSN: 0264-3758 24, no. 2 (2007): 137–150.

• Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica IIa IIae Q77. Available online at: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3077.htm

• Walsh, Dr Adrian, and Dr Tony Lynch. The morality of money : an exploration in analytic philosophyISBN: 9780230535435 : £50.00; 0230535437 : £50.00; 9780230227804 (ebook). Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Chapter 5 - “The morality of pricing”.

• Senge, Peter, Hal Hamilton, and John Kania. ‘The Dawn of System Leadership’. Stanford social innovation reviewISSN: 1542-7099 Winter 2015 (2015): 27–33.

• Kanungo, Rabindra N. ‘Ethical Values of Transactional and Transformational Leaders’. Canadian journal of administrative sciences = Revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration.ISSN: 0825-0383; 1936-4490 18, no. 4 (2001): 257–265.

• Aronson, Edward. ‘Integrating Leadership Styles and Ethical Perspectives’. Canadian journal of administrative sciences = Revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration.ISSN: 0825-0383; 1936-4490 18, no. 4 (2001): 244–256.

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Topic 4 – Trust, Credibility and Charisma

Core Reading

• Hawley, Katherine. Trust : a very short introductionISBN: 9780199697342 (pbk.); 0199697345 (pbk.). Vol. 325. Oxford University Press, 2012. Chapter 2 - “Why Trust and Trustworthiness Matter”. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

• Onora O’Neill’s Reith Lectures 2002 – “A question of trust”. Audio and text transcription both available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/

  • Published in book form: O'Neill, Onora, A question of trustISBN: 0521529964(pbk) : No price; 0521823048 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).  

• Green, Adam. ‘Monitoring, Testimony, and a Challenge from Social Psychology’. American philosophical quarterly.ISSN: 0003-0481 51, no. 1 (1 January 2014): 27–38. - Available online: http://apq.press.illinois.edu/51/1/green.html

Additional

• Williams, Bernard (1978) “Politics and Moral Character” in ed. Hampshire, Stuart (1978) Public and private moralityISBN: 0521293529; 052122084X, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, reprinted in Williams, Bernard (1981) Moral luck : philosophical papers 1973-1980ISBN: 0521286913 (pbk ; cased) : £5.95; 0521243726, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Swaine, Lucas (2013) “Moral Character for Political Leaders: A Normative Account”, Res publica.ISSN: 1356-4765 19.4, 317-33.

• Mawer, Sir Philip (2010) “Public trust in the professions : Ethics, trust and integrity.” published online at: https://www.actuaries.org.uk/documents/professionalism-resource-material-public-trust-professions-ethics-trust-and-integrity-0 retrieved 5/1/2017.

• Goldman, Alvin I. ‘Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust? ’ Philosophy and phenomenological research.ISSN: 0031-8205 63, no. 1 (2001): 85–110. doi:10.2307/3071090.

• McLeod, Carolyn. ‘Trust’. Edited by Edward N. Zalta. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/trust/.

• Hawley, Katherine. ‘Trust, Distrust and Commitment’. Noûs.ISSN: 0029-4624 48, no. 1 (2014): 1–20.

• Baier, Annette. Trust. Vol. 13. Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992. - Available online: http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/b/baier92.pdf

• O'Neill, Onora, Autonomy and trust in bioethicsISBN: 0521894530 (pbk.) : £14.95; 0521815401, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

• Hardin, Russell, TrustISBN: 9780745624655 (pbk.) : No price; 0745624650 (pbk.) : No price; 0745624642 (cased) : No price, (Cambridge: Polity, 2006).

• Keohane, Nannerl O. 2005. On leadership. Perspectives on politics.ISSN: 1537-5927 3: 705–722.

• Keohane, Nannerl O. 2010. Thinking about leadershipISBN: 9780691142074; 0691142076. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

• Nagel, Thomas (1978) “Ruthlessness in Public Life”, in ed. Hampshire, Stuart (1978) Public and private moralityISBN: 0521293529; 052122084X, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (reprinted in Nagel, Mortal Questions. )

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Topic 5 – Persuasion and Manipulation

Core Reading

• Plato Gorgias 451d-461c.

• Mills, Claudia. ‘Politics and Manipulation’. Social Theory and Practice 21, no. 1 (1995): 97–112. Available as an Online Course Reading in Minerva

• Bourgeois, Denis. ‘The Ethics of Organizational Change (2)’. Quests.fr, January 2012. https://www.yatesweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bourgeois-The-ethics-of-organizational-change-2.pdf  

Additional

• Coons, Christian, and Michael Weber, eds. Manipulation : theory and practiceISBN: 9780199338214 paperback; 9780199338207 hardback. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.

• Gorin, Moti. ‘Towards a Theory of Interpersonal Manipulation’. In Manipulation : theory and practiceISBN: 9780199338214 paperback; 9780199338207 hardback, edited by Michael Coons and Christian Weber. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

• Gorin, Moti. ‘Do Manipulators Always Threaten Rationality? ’ American Philosophical Quarterly 51, no. 1 (2014): 51–61. - Available online: https://philpapers.org/archive/GORDMA-2.pdf

• Greenspan, Patricia. ‘The Problem with Manipulation’. American philosophical quarterly.ISSN: 0003-0481 40, no. 2 (1 April 2003): 155–64.

• Bourgeois, Denis. ‘The Ethics of Organizational Change (1)’. Quests.fr, December 2010. https://www.yatesweb.com/crj/bibliography/bourgeois-the-ethics-of-organizational-change-1/   

• Bourgeois, Denis. ‘The Ethics of Organizational Change (3)’. Quests.fr, June 2012. https://www.yatesweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bourgeois-The-ethics-of-organizational-change-3.pdf  

This list was last updated on 25/02/2022