CFP: Ethics in Management: Business and the Professions

Management and leadership roles across business and the professions present us with a wide range of ethical issues and questions. These are apparent and pressing to those of us who are in such roles, those of us who aspire to be, and those of us who are subject to the decisions and actions of others in leadership and management roles. This is perhaps especially true in the professions. The effects on our day to day lives are unavoidable and wide ranging and never more so than in times of flux and crisis.  As well as the specific ethical challenges that arise in management and leadership roles there are many more general questions such as: are management and leadership ethically special in some way? Does being in a management or leadership role present ethical challenges that are substantially different from day to day life or are the impacts of leaders’ and managers’ decisions just greater? Is ethics for leaders and managers the same as for the rest of us? Are such challenges analogous to the ethical issues and questions faced in the professions generally? What do we have a right to expect from leaders and managers?