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Assessing and Acquiring Ethical Leadership Competence

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Leaders need the ability to handle any moral problem that may arise during their professional activities; they need ethical competence. Ethical skill is, in psychology and in accordance to the classical philosophical position, understood as the basis and the aim of ethical competence of leaders. Based on that, we can construct valid assessment tools and training programs that support the acquisition and use of ethical competence and skills.

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  1. Department of IT-VII, Uppsala University, 337, Uppsala, 751 05, Sweden

    Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos

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  1. , Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, 07030, New Jersey, USA

    Gregory P. Prastacos

  2. and Economics, Economic Cooperation and Development, University of International Business, Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District 10, Beijing, China, People's Republic

    Fuming Wang

  3. , Business Faculty, Higher Colleges of Technology, Women's Campus, Dubai, 16062, Utd.Arab.Emir.

    Klas Eric Soderquist

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Kavathatzopoulos, I. (2012). Assessing and Acquiring Ethical Leadership Competence. In: Prastacos, G., Wang, F., Soderquist, K. (eds) Leadership through the Classics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32445-1_26

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