Ethical Maturity and Successful Leadership

Abstract

Ethical maturity is the ability not only to judge right from wrong, but to make the right choice when issues in conflict require the individual to weight competing values when making sociotechnical decisions. While a universal metric for describing ethical maturity does not exist, scales of professional moral development based on the work of Kohlberg are useful for analyzing subordinates' ethical maturity. To be professionally successful, leaders must themselves be ethically mature, and they must seek to increase their subordinates' ethical maturity. Mentoring on ethical issues is discussed, including specific programs that leaders can use to achieve moral maturity within their company.

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