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Ethical Leadership and a
Pro-Integrity Approach to
Good Governance
Chloe Schwenke, Ph.D.
7-28-2011
Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex
moral relationship between people, based on trust,
obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the
good.
Ethics lie at the heart of all human relationships and hence
at the heart of the relationship between leaders and
followers.
Joanne Ciulla
Defining ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
• Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders
and followers who intend real changes that reflect their
mutual purpose
• Leadership has two characteristics:
– Multidirectional - influence flows in all directions and not just
from the top down; and
– Noncoercive - not based on authority, power, or dictatorial
actions but is based on persuasive behaviors
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Defining ETHICAL LEADERSHIP, continued
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Claim a sense of the public good
Build a deliberative society
Bridge across deep divisions
Offer hope
• Success directly linked to moral character and integrity
of leaders, and their ability to build strong institutions
– Institutions with leaders who articulate and model moral values
– Checks and balances (against periods of weak leadership)
– Measured by the quality of life enjoyed by citizens
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Defining INTEGRITY
All leading anti-corruption assessment initiatives
focus on corruption, or “integrity systems”
• The immoral presumption ~ if people think they can get ahead
(or get by) through corrupt means, they’ll do so.
• Are human beings – and their institutions - morally deficient, if
not degenerate, by nature?
• Do people aspire towards integrity and virtue?
• Do people “accept” corruption?
Question: Why do we concentrate on constraining
corruption and not also on fostering (and celebrating)
integrity?
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Leadership ≠ Management ≠ Rule
• Leaders exert influence to transform the status quo in a
way that reflects the purposes that they hold mutually
with their followers
• Managers are responsible for efficient and effective
transactions, and operate in relationships based on
authority.
– Managers maintain the status quo
• Rulers exert their will through force, fear, intimidation,
exploitation, or deceitful manipulation to coerce others
to achieve the ruler’s goals
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A PRO-INTEGRITY approach
Creating the environment for integrity
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Linking moral ideals with good governance
Seeking out and celebrating integrity in leadership
Moral and civic education ~ ethical citizenship
Moral dialogue ~ tapping in to public concern
Ethical tools ~ developing better tools for normative
analysis
• Orientation ~ integrity is not just a set of rules
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A PRO-INTEGRITY APPROACH to fighting corruption
Pursuing justice, virtue, and caring
• Shaming ~ “frying the big fish”
• Political will ~ commitment to rule of law
• Integrity ~ Setting and modeling high ethical
standards of leadership
• Retributive justice ~ making the penalty for
corruption fit the crime
• Restorative justice ~ healing the wounds of victims,
offenders and communities
• Compassion ~ caring for the victims of corruption
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