March 14 |1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST
Dozens of books are published each year on leadership, but as pundits, scholars, philosophers and public intellectuals note, what is written is too often shallow and facile, oriented toward quick fixes for performance enhancement or internal organizational and personnel development. Drawing from a diverse range of literature, including history, philosophy, public administration, leadership, religion and spirituality, author Stephen King will discuss how this book fills an important gap, exploring what it means to be an ethical and moral leader. It looks closely at the many challenges of leadership, examining the continuing contrast between bureaucracy and democracy, the unique ethical and moral characteristics of nonprofit and faith-based organizations and the globalization of organizations and institutions.
King develops a more holistic and interdisciplinary understanding of ethical and moral leadership, required for more thoughtful theoretical and empirical research. He points students of leadership to the time-honored values of ethics and morality, reestablishes the ethical balance between bureaucracy and democracy and helps reorient the values' purpose of public, nonprofit and global institutions, providing hope of a better future for leadership.
Those who attend this webinar will:
- Have a broader understanding of the philosophical and theoretical depth of ethical leadership
- Better understand the current need for more attention by MPA programs on teaching courses covering ethical leadership
- Discover the many opportunities for how ethical leadership is practiced in a variety of contexts—public, non-profit and global
Speaker:
Stephen M. King,
Professor of Government, Regent University