An Ethical Ecology of a Corporate Leader: Modeling the Ethical Frame of Corporate Leadership

Abstract

The paper is a discussion of the ethical frame of corporate leadership. The ethical frame is a manager’s ethical ecology. An ethical ecology is about the complex weave of moral obligations, intentions, actions, and consequences of doing business. This paper is a discussion of the ethical conceptual model or frame of a corporate leader. The paper looks at the various structural components and relationships of a worldview of ethical management. The structural components are corporate policy and codes of conduct, financial affairs, environmental concerns, human resources, organizational reputation, relationships, and the corporate leader’s personal moral frame. The essay discusses these categories of ethical management as organizers of an ethical perspective within a corporate environment.