What is it about?
The focus of this study was to explore the moral identity influences of two former leaders to determine how these influences contributed to positive or negative moral identity development and reveal how these influences could affect ethical or unethical decision making.
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Why is it important?
Because of the increase of unethical leadership behavior, it is becoming more important for scholars, researchers, and other professionals to understand the motivating factors that cause leaders to act in an ethical or an unethical manner. This research explored a new area of consideration involving the deeper psychological influences evolving from an individual's education, family, peers, and religion.
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In this research, I am striving to understand the underlying influences that help shape ethical and unethical behavior in modern leaders. While this is a new area of research, the concepts that emerged helped to underscore the need to understand how early influences of education, family, peers, and religion can contribute to positive or negative moral identity development.
Dr Sandra G Nunn
University of Phoenix
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This page is a summary of: How Moral Identity Influences Leadership Ethics: A Historical Case Study, Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture, October 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/jpoc.21200.
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