Ethics, Moral Agency and

Moral Leadership
 LEADERSHIP SKILLS
 Delegation
 Qualities of a good leader
 Ethical leadership
 Accountability
 Team building
 Ethics
 An inquiry into the justification of particular
actions as well as a search for traits of
moral character that promote human
flourishing

 A study of who we ought to be and how

we should make decisions in light of our
identity, who we say we are.
 Moral Agency?
Moral agency is the capacity to habitually act
in a manner consistent with moral integrity.
It entails a certain set of competencies
in matters ethical as well as
moral character and motivation

At the end of the day is our world, the lives of those we

encountered during the day, better for having met us?

Am I better or worse at the end of the day?

 Moral Agency
Moral Sensibility Moral Accountability

Moral Responsiveness Moral Character

Moral Reasoning Moral Valuing

 Moral Integrity
A condition or in which moral activity
(valuing, choosing, acting) is intimately
linked to a particular conception of the
Good, the Good Life.

Who are you when no one is looking?

“One becomes what one repeatedly does…”

Aristotle
 Moral Integrity
 Commitment to  What is reasonable for
developing and them to expect of me?
What are the promises I
owning a concept of
have made to them?
the GOOD.
 How well am I meeting
the expectations, being
 Reflection: faithful to the promises?
 Whom do I serve?  How is vision I have of
my mission consistent
with my behavior?
 Moral Integrity
 “Practicing” valuing,  Reflecting on the
choosing, acting consequences of
according to your honoring or
concept of what dishonoring one’s
fidelity to the integrity
good/good life
demands
 Moral Leadership
Leaderships is the ability to direct or
motivate an individual or group to achieve
set goals.
Institutional moral leadership is the ability to
direct or motivate an individual or group to
achieve moral integrity in the pursuit of
common institutional goals. Carol Taylor,2003
 Hallmarks of Successful
Institutional Moral Leadership
 Explicit and common  Leaders/managers
moral vision  Articulate rules
 Recognize & respond to
 Mission and core values challenges/threats to
are clearly articulated & integrity
communicated  Structures and policies
 Mission-focused facilitate moral integrity
practices  Institutional
ethos/culture supports
 Moral agency is a norm people doing the right
thing for the right reason