Ethical Responsibility - An Arendtian Turn

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita A. Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Leadership Ethics ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
Leadership Responsibility ◽  
Collective Judgment

ABSTRACT:This article contends that Hannah Arendt’s writing can add value to current discussions on responsible leadership. Specifically, considering responsibility through an Arendtian lens offers insights that deepen our understanding of the interconnections among leadership, responsibility, and ethical action. Turning to Arendt can, therefore, increase our grasp of the complexities of leading responsibly. She shows how acting responsibly requires not only ethical forethought but also a willingness to judge for ourselves. Her emphasis on judgment enriches discussions on responsible leadership, encouraging us to think more deeply about what it might mean to act responsibly, and how such action connects with ethics. Examples of irresponsible action are explored as they concern individual and collective judgment in particular political and corporate contexts. Thus, it is by engaging with the messy realities of everyday life that an Arendtian turn can help us rethink leadership, ethics, and responsibility in new and productive ways.

Responsible Leadership Ethics

Diversity ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 276-293
Author(s):  
Kurt April ◽  
Amanda April
Keyword(s):  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Leadership Ethics

The Relationship Between Leadership Ethics and Organizational Success

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-137
Author(s):  
Phillip M. Randall ◽  
Susan Saurage-Altenloh ◽  
Enoch T. Osei
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Leadership Ethics ◽  
Global Organizations ◽  
Leadership Responsibility ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
The Relationship

Over the last few decades, business fraud and examples of scandalous management behaviors have sparked a lot of attention among several interested stakeholders. These increasing scandals have necessitated the question on the necessary steps required to prevent their frequent occurrence. The lack of commitment to strong ethical standards by management has been underpinned as the cause of ethical misconducts in organizations. The fiscal crisis of 2007-2009 witnessed many leadership misconducts and abuse of leadership responsibility. The fiscal crisis revealed the loss of about $11 trillion in household wealth, 26 million Americans losing their jobs, and 4.5 million Americans who could not afford their mortgages. These events and statistics show the prevalent lack of ethical leadership in organizations. While leadership ethics is a concern for all stakeholders within business organizations in the United States, only a few segments of the industry are taking steps to incorporate ethical awareness within their global organizations.

The Relationship Between Leadership Ethics and Organizational Success

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enoch T. Osei ◽  
Velmarie K. Swing
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Leadership Ethics ◽  
Leadership Responsibility ◽  
Lack Of Commitment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Management Behaviors

Over the last few decades, business fraud and examples of scandalous management behaviors have sparked a lot of attention among several interested stakeholders. These increasing scandals have necessitated the question on the necessary steps required to prevent their frequent occurrence. The lack of commitment to strong ethical standards by management has been underpinned as the cause of ethical misconducts in organizations. The fiscal crisis of 2007-2009 witnessed many leadership misconducts and abuse of leadership responsibility. The fiscal crisis revealed the loss of about $11 trillion in household wealth, 26 million Americans losing their jobs, and 4.5 million Americans who could not afford their mortgages. These events and statistics show the prevalent lack of ethical leadership in organizations. While leadership ethics is a concern for all stakeholders within business organizations in the United States, only a few segments of the industry are taking steps to incorporate ethical awareness within their organizations.

scholarly journals Ethical (responsible) leadership

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Ivan Nisavic
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
The Status ◽  
Corporate Social

The paper, from the perspective of ethical theories, presents and analyzes the aspects of morality that fall under responsible leadership in the field of business ethics. It is an assumption that the idea of responsible leadership is derived from the aspect of morality that is governed by interest, which can be disguised for the sake of personal and/or material profit. In addition, answers are offered to questions concerning the importance and relevance of corporate social responsibility, as well as the status of corporations as moral agents. Those activities that go beyond purely business interest, such as socially responsible work or philanthropic work, are very useful and profitable and, in addition, understand companies as entities who, indirectly, have a specific dose of ethical responsibility, which ultimately makes them moral agents.

Hospitalitas Kepemimpinan Kristen Sebagai Tindakan Etis di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo paundanan
Keyword(s):  
Human Values ◽  
Christian Leadership ◽  
Leadership Ethics ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
God's Love ◽  
Leadership Process ◽  
Christian Leaders

Hospitalization of Christian leadership as ethical action in the midst of a pandemic is the focus of this study. By looking at the polemic and the crunch that has occurred in the community as a result of the spread of Covid-19, it is very necessary to have an attitude of vitality. Christian leadership hospitality as an ethical action in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic is a form of ethical attitude to build empathy as an effort to instill human values in the midst of the pandemic. The goal is to instill service motivation based on love as well as an effort to build empathy as an effort to maintain a sense of humanity in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic through the leadership process. In achieving this study, the method used in this study is the literature method, namely the development of several studies as material contributions in this paper. This study concludes that Christian leadership hospitality as an ethical act in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic is an implementation of the motivation for loving service which aims to build empathy in society about the importance of maintaining a sense of humanity in undergoing social distancing. Christian leadership hospitality must be viewed as an effort to reveal God's love for this world through a leadership process in the context of a pandemic. Motivation from Christian leadership is a form of hospitality that Christian leaders can expect in taking ethical action in the midst of polemic and in the community about the covid-19 outbreak.Keywords: Hospitalization, Christian Leadership, Ethics, Pandemic, Covid-19.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

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