Moral leadership and cultural leadership

Here we discuss the moral dimensions of leadership and management. In education, effective managers do the right thing for the right reasons and in the right way, and it is in the search for what is ‘right’ that leadership acquires its morality. Moral leadership is about providing values and meaning for staff to live and work by, providing teaching and academic colleagues with the inspiration to act and the motivation to hold themselves accountable. The chapter discusses Greenleaf’s theory of servant leadership as a form of moral or ethical leadership, and cultural leadership and values management within schools and universities: Cameron and Quinn’s four basic competing values framework; Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions model; the Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner seven-dimension model; and culturally responsive leadership.