Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership

Why do leaders fail ethically? In this book Terry L. Price applies a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of immorality in the public private and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders can know that a certain kind of behavior is generally required by morality but nonetheless be mistaken as to whether the relevant moral requirement applies to them in a particular situation and whether others are protected by this requirement. Price articulates how leaders make exceptions of themselves explains how the justificatory force of leadership gives rise to such exception-making and develops normative prescriptions that leaders should adopt as a response to this feature of their moral psychology.