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Ethical Leadership Development: High Level View

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton What is Ethical Leadership Development? Ethical leadership development is the ongoing process of guiding leaders to become ethical people and ethical leaders. It is not the same thing as compliance training or following legal requirements, although those are also important.

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Elements of Ethical Leadership Development

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leadership development is the ongoing process of guiding leaders to become ethical people and ethical leaders. It is not the same thing as compliance training or legal requirements, although those are also important.

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Ethics and Leadership Should Be Learned Together

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Preparing leaders for ethical leadership is a long-term process. For example, what message are we sending when we separate ethics training from other leadership training? It requires careful thought about the messages we are sending.

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Ethical Thinking: Sifting For Values

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Most people think about ethics, at least some of the time. Ethics comes to mind during ethics training, ethics conversations, when people are thrown into ethically complex situations, and when trying to understand current events. It is proactive, intentional and consistently applied.

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Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders (Part 1)

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Welcome to Part 1 in the series “Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders.” Welcome to Part 1 in the series “Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders.” Ethical decision-making is not simply a task. In each post in this series, I’ll explore one aspect of this complex, connected process.

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Recognizing Ethical Issues (Part 1)

Leading in Context

The instructions are clear, people know what to do, and it’s usually an orderly process. When people make decisions in their daily rounds, though, there is no external alert or audible alarm to signal that they are stepping into an ethical issue or an ethical gray area and need to carefully consider ethical issues.

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Who’s Accountable For Ethical Artificial Intelligence?

Leading in Context

By Linda Fisher Thornton Who is accountable for ethical artificial intelligence? I was recently invited to answer those questions in a guest blog post published on the EDUCAUSE Professional Development Commons and EDUCAUSE Review. There are ethical implications at every step of the process.

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