ABSTRACT
Ethical and moral leadership is that exercised by an individual with a clear vision of a precise objective based on values solid enough to seek what is good in the society in which he lives, knows what kind of society is necessary to create and the ways to achieve it, and fights consistently to carry them out from the organizational environment under their responsibility. Ethical behavior, in its simplest terms, is knowing what is correct. The difficulty lies in deciding the parameters that a leader must consider to define “what is correct” under the set of norms and customs that society considers correct to direct and judge the behavior of individuals with. This work aims to analyze the main aspects considered as characteristics of the exercise of leadership, based on morals and ethics, from the etymological and historical basis of such terms to the analysis of outstanding exponents of moral leadership to understand their concern and actions for the world and not themselves alone.
