ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a case study around ethical decision-making and leadership. It shows importance of developing ethical awareness as a leader and how the very nature and purpose of leadership involves developing and handling moral values and identity. Developed the ethical ideas of responsibility and integrity, viewing them as core to leadership. The chapter argues role of leadership is not to transform so much as to enable responsibility to be owned by the group or organisation and the members of that group, embodying core values of freedom, community and equality. Deontological theory argues that ethical meaning is found in absolute or general principles, such as Ten Commandments, applicable to all situations. Ciulla suggests that the one reason why this ethical identity has not been explored more is because of the stress on positivist approaches to leadership. Bauman argues that any ethics has to begin with the inclusive awareness and appreciation of the other, and, hence, responsibility for the other.
