Response to Chapter 13

I think morals and ethics should be used as a basis for how leaders interact with followers and the decision process. Leaders should also use ethics for a soundboard for previous decisions and use for future decision. I agree the some unethical situations are a result of a leader’s incompetencies. A leader should have the knowledge about the situation, the people involves, and if the decision would be morally permissible. The ethics course at St. Norbert College provides various ways to determine what actions are moral permissible or impermissible. These methods can be used to determine whether a leader’s actions are permissible, especially for political or business leaders. The understanding of virtues, actions, motives, and habits allows leaders to understand what is permitted in society and how to judge others as leader’s. Once again, I think Philosophy Ethics can be useful for leadership studies, but a business ethics would be more useful in understanding ethics and leadership.