Full Description
Ethics for School Leaders: The Human Condition and Organizational Dynamics is about the complex role of formal and informal leaders in schools. It presents multiple perspectives to enhance comprehension of the organizational and psychological dynamics that come into play when school leaders—those with authority and those without authority—are faced with ethically challenging situations. In addition to a tour of leadership theories, organizational dynamics, psychological dynamics, and ethical perspectives, the case studies in this book weave together aspects of people's emotional make-up, cognitive framework, and past experiences to illustrate how school leaders use reason and emotion to make complex connections between their inner lives and the demands of their profession.
This book identifies specific examples of ways school leaders can enhance ethical practice at the organizational level as well as how to focus on the things they can do personally and interpersonally to improve their work as school leaders in order to make lives better for all of the people they serve. By integrating various approaches to the study of the leadership process, this book makes an important contribution to fields of leadership studies and professional ethics.
Contents
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Human Condition
Chapter 2: An Overview of Leadership
Chapter 3: Organizational Dynamics
Chapter 4: Psychological Dynamics
Chapter 5: Ethical Frameworks
Chapter 6: Due Process of the Law
Chapter 7: Utility and Agreeableness
Chapter 8: The Categorical Imperative
Chapter 9: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
Chapter 10: The Heroic Ideal and Self-Interest
Chapter 11: Absolute Truth and Nonviolence
Chapter 12: Respect for Persons
Chapter 13: Emotions and Intellect: A Family Systems Approach
Chapter 14: Practical and Professional Ethics: A Case Study Approach
Chapter 15: Professional Ethics, Moral Values, and Confidentiality
Chapter 16: Confidences Betrayed: The Pain Flows In and Out in Waves
Chapter 17: Inappropriate Relationships
Chapter 18: Being Used or Being of Service
Chapter 19: An Emotionally, Intellectually, and Spiritually Punishing Year
Chapter 20: Ducking and Weaving Through a Course in Human Sexuality
Chapter 21: Theft in the Staff Room
Chapter 22: Racist Language and the Unspoken Rule
Chapter 23: Hiding the Truth to Make Things Better
Chapter 24: Fabricated Meetings and Toxic Leadership
Chapter 25: Stolen Data
Chapter 26: Whose Curriculum Is It?
Chapter 27: Shifts in Society, Shifts in Leadership
Chapter 28: Enhancing our Ethical Practice
Chapter 29: Welcome to the Journey
Glossary
References
About the Author
