Ethical Leadership

We know we don't want to be an unethical leader, but what does it take to be an ethical leader? In this episode, Dr. Sean Martin joins us to talk about what it means to be an ethical leader and how it can make your teams more resilient.

What psychological processes can influence you to make more unethical decisions? In this episode, we talk about how automaticity and motivated reasoning can undermine ethical decision-making.

As people, we want to maintain the belief that we are good and virtuous. How can people believe they are good, but still do bad things? In this episode, we discuss how moral disengagement and moral licensing allow good people to engage in bad behavior.

Does the context you are in influence your ethical behavior? Is it possible you could be more ethical in one part of your life than another? Could the team you are in make you more unethical? We will answer these questions on this episode of Ethical Leadership.

In this episode, we question what we should expect from business. Should we expect businesses to focus exclusively on making money, or should we expect them to pursue broader social goals? We consider two different perspectives organizations can take - the shareholder and stakeholder perspective.

What does it mean to be ethical? What frameworks can we use to understand ethical decision-making?