Being both ethical and successful is challenging. The rewards of
unethical behavior are often greater than the price paid for
misbehavior. This book explains why leaders, seeking to run ethical and
successful organizations, cannot depend only on the law and their
organizations to make moral business decisions.
The authors explore why making ethical business decisions is harder than
is generally understood, and explores the difficulties leaders face as a
result of differences in context, circumstances, and other challenges to
ethical behavior, such as misleading rhetoric, inappropriate role
models, cognitive dissonance and motivated forgetting. They argue that
individuals need to establish ethical baselines that they will not cross
when making decisions and explain how to do this systematically.
The Challenge of Leading an Ethical and Successful Organization offers
ways of handling ethical dilemmas successfully. It explores the need to
determine in advance the potential areas of ethical conflict, and the
potential costs of such conflicts and provides leaders with a practical
ethical framework to reconcile ethics with business success. This book
is essential reading for professionals, consultants, and academics
interested in the ethics of leadership and management.