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Ethics is the heart of leadership, not an add-on.
Joanne B. Ciulla (b. 1952), a philosopher by training, was a founding faculty member of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond — the first school of its kind — and later directed the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers. Her central claim: ethics is not a topic within leadership studies; it is the heart of the subject.
Ciulla argued that ethics is constitutive of leadership itself — the leader–follower relationship is inherently moral. Good leadership means both effective and ethical.
The era: Dynamic Interaction — A dynamic, interactive influence process among individuals in groups; emphasis on managing environmental cross points.
Ethics is the heart of leadership, not an add-on.
This theory sits in the Dynamic Interaction era of the map: A dynamic, interactive influence process among individuals in groups; emphasis on managing environmental cross points.
Judge leadership by both effectiveness and ethics — refuse the trade as a false choice.
Examine the means your ends currently excuse.