Leadership and ethics. Neutrality does not exist
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Leadership an ethics, ethics in leadership, negative leadership, unethical leadershipAbstract
The aim of this work is to review the neutral way of how certain leadership models are designed, transmitted, accepted and practiced in organization management fields. Such neutrality implies a framework that suspends the definition and assessment of principles and values as well as their impacts. This apparent neutrality extends through all description and normative of models and naturally leads to a practice with no ethical assessment or social responsibility. In largely management bibliography, the aim of leadership study is the performance by more and better results. Equifinality makes the leader's form of influence to remain in the background while leading to the desired results. From the analysis of a widely spread leadership model, it will be proposed below the study of ethical risks from several authors’ work striving to discuss the apparent neutrality of principles and values.
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