Strategic leadership of ethical behavior in business
提出高管必须主动承担道德领导责任，通过建立积极的社会环境来引导组织成员自觉遵守道德规范，并基于三个前提论证了战略领导道德行为的必要性、可行性和可持续性。
Executive Overview The strategic leadership of ethical behavior in business can no longer be ignored. Executives must accept the fact that the moral impact of their leadership presence and behaviors will rarely, if ever, be neutral. In the leadership capacity, executives have great power to shift the ethics mindfulness of organizational members in positive as well as negative directions. Rather than being left to chance, this power to serve as ethics leaders must be used to establish a social context within which positive self-regulation of ethical behavior becomes a clear and compelling organizational norm and in which people act ethically as a matter of routine. This article frames the responsibility for strategic leadership of ethical behavior on three premises: (1) It must be done—a stakeholder analysis of the total costs of ethical failures confirms the urgency for ethics change; (2) It can be done—exemplars show that a compelling majority of an organization's membership can be influenced to make ethical choices; (3) It is sustainable—integrity programs help build and confirm corporate cultures in which principled actions and ethics norms predominate.