As a historian, I would like to share this site, Falling Blossoms http://www.fallingblossoms.com/ethics/ , for insight into ethics from a long term view. The reason is it has an article, "all executives are unethical doing the right thing the moral case for rightshifting" links together two events separated in time. Both have ethical foundations at the root. The question the author poses to the reader is: If executives truly believe people are being as productive as possible – but that is not the case - do they have any right to believe it?
This really is a concern when you supervise men and women. You are ultimately responsible for everything that happens and you cannot assume or hope things are being done right. Hope is not a strategy! As a leader, you have an awesome responsibility to not only be true to yourself but for the ethics of others. The website author, Marshall Goldsmith, quotes Bertrand Russell:“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out,which is its exact opposite."
Another reason I am sharing this site is there are other articles such as "the ethics of transformational leadership" which allows you to enjoy reading about transformational leadership from an ethical perspective. There is also an underlying theme on the website stressing the role respect plays in ethical leadership.
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