ABSTRACT
These organizational leaders along with their partners in fraud acted in blatant disregard for others, including their employees, shareholders, and investors. Many news and other outlets have claimed these scandals to be due in part to the excessive hubris, arrogance, and sense of entitlement possessed by the leaders involved (see Owens & Hekman, 2012; Owens, Johnson, & Mitchell, 2013). This led to a “crisis of leadership,” or fundamentally questioning what leadership is about and what kind of leaders we are producing in business schools compared with the kind of leaders we should be producing. Among other things, luminaries in organizational and leadership study have said that humility is a vital characteristic for business leaders in the new millennium (Weick, 2001). Furthermore, movements in positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship are legitimizing the study of the history of virtues like humility in contemporary contexts. Cameron, Bright, and Caza (2004) said that humility is one of the important “organizational virtues” that forms the foundation for moral action within the workplace.
