Open AccessMoral Implications of Leadership - Transformative Insights
Author(s) -
Feng Xu,
Cam Caldwell,
Verl Anderson
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of business and social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2164-2559
pISSN - 2164-2540
DOI - 10.18533/ijbsr.v6i3.940
Subject(s) - lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , transformative learning , morality , moral development , leadership development , moral reasoning , sociology , situational leadership theory , social psychology , ethical leadership , psychology , shared leadership , environmental ethics , leadership style , political science , public relations , pedagogy , law , philosophy
In this paper we examine the correlations between Lawrence Kohlberg’s six stages of morality and Transformative Leadership, a new morally-based approach to leadership. Using survey of students, faculty members, and staffs at a South Florida private university we present evidence that there is a clear relationship between an individual’s self-described leadership perspectives and the stages of Kohlberg’s moral development model. Our paper provides five significant contributions to the literature about leadership and its moral role and enables scholars and practitioners to understand more completely the relationships between leadership and moral behavior.