Leadership Ethics
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics explores ethical issues in organizational leadership such as corporate governance, role-based ethics and tone at the top. We also address questions of personal ethical leadership.
Evaluating Culture for Ethics
Culture Assessment Practice recommends approaches to evaluating culture for ethics within companies and other types of organizations. The materials are primarily for members of an organization’s leadership team, including human resources and legal, but designed to engage a cross-section of leaders from various disciplines.
Benison: The Practice of Ethical Leadership
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Inspires Us to be More Ethical at Work and in Life
10 ways companies can be more attentive and responsive to people’s needs
Ethical Leadership Practices in a Pandemic
Ethical leadership is required from all of us during times of crisis.
Impeachment Brings New Ethical Dilemmas to Our Leaders, and to Voting Public
The impeachment process requires tremendous responsibility from our leadership, including several ethical dilemmas.
9 Things Companies Should Be Doing to Avoid Creating a Toxic Workplace
Shareholders must ensure that management builds employee morale and a company’s value.
Teaching Note: Interview of Theranos Whistleblower, Tyler Shultz
This teaching module for business ethics, leadership and management courses includes two videos, homework assignments, and class discussion, all designed to spark conversation about ethical issues associated with whistleblowers and corporate governance.
Leadership Ethics Resources
Articles
Leadership Ethics articles on corporate governance, ethical reasoning, diversity, mission and values, and culture.
Case Studies
Case studies on leadership ethics issues faced by organizations such as Apple, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo.
Customize Your Mission
A mission statement serves as a standard for ethical decision-making to guide individuals and organizations.
Media Commentary
Should Transgender Students Be Allowed To Compete In Women's Athletics?
Ann Skeet, senior director of Leadership Ethics, quoted on NPR Morning Edition.
Ethics Watchdog on S.F. City Hall Corruption Scandal
Ann Skeet, senior director of Leadership Ethics, interviewed on KPIX 5.
When Titles Are Tarnished by Cheating But Not Taken Away
From The New York Times
How Businesses Can Create an Ethical Culture in the Age of Tech
From World Economic Forum
A Model for Leadership Ethics
Leadership ethics explores the relationships between leaders and followers and provides tools for those in leadership roles to bring ethics forward in organizations. Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics, has developed a leadership model that encourages users to think of their leadership as a practice. It shows how leadership happens on a continuum from the personal to the formal, building from a leader’s character and including actions the leader takes, with elements combining to render the impact the leader has.
What Is Leadership Ethics?
Leadership ethics looks at the issues people face when they're in formal leadership roles. It can also be about personal leadership—people’s character and values and how they “show up” in life, which is central to the way they are able to have an impact as leaders.