Purpose: Although much has been written about leadership, the concept of leadership vision is not widely understood, is far more complex than is commonly perceived, and is profoundly ethical in its normative and instrumental nature. The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the ethical implications of treating new employees with high consideration and respect for their needs and to explain how this expectation honors the psychological contract between employers and their incoming employees. By providing a specific...

Purpose: Humility as an important factor for leaders was identified by Collins (2001) and his colleagues in an extensive research project about the leadership qualities of the leaders of companies that transitioned from “good” to “great.” This paper is an empirical study of six factors...

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationships between organizational justice and the factors that characterize cultural differences. This paper begins by briefly summarizing the nature of organizational justice and by identifying how justice is perceived. Hofstede¡¯s five factors of...

This paper examines the Apostle Peter as a personification of the relatively new leadership model, Transformative Leadership, which focuses on the leader¡¯s role as an ethical steward who owes ¡°covenantal duties¡± to those whom (s)he serves. We begin by briefly explaining this new...

Individuals who demonstrate organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) contribute to their organization’s ability to create wealth, but they also owe their organizations a complex set of ethical duties. Although, the academic literature has begun to address the ethical duties owed by...

Unethical conduct has reached crisis proportions in business (Walker et al., Wall Str J East Edn, 258(37):A1–A10, <CitationRef CitationID="CR150">2011</CitationRef>) and on today’s college campuses (Burke et al., CPA J, 77(5):58–65, <CitationRef CitationID="CR21">2007</CitationRef>). Despite the evidence that suggests that more than half of business students admit to dishonest...</citationref></citationref>