Ethical Leadership

Why study Ethical Leadership?

● The minor in Ethical Leadership offers a practical, multidisciplinary approach to the primary theoretical and empirical facets of ethical leadership: conscience, influence, character, power, courage, justice, and the common good.
● The minor makes available, in streamlined and easily navigable fashion, a 2,500-year history of sustained thinking about ethical reasoning, decision science, and leadership theory.
● The minor presents, in concentrated form, the best of what Elms College has to offer:
multidisciplinary personal, professional, moral, and spiritual development in the tradition of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

The minor in Ethical Leadership:

1. Provides students with a substantive background in the cognitive science of moral reasoning, with particular focus on the concepts most relevant to effective ethical leadership: conscience, influence, character, power, courage, justice, and the common good.
2. Develops students’ moral decision making abilities through the application of ethical theory to a broad base of contemporary problems in personal, professional, and social life.
3. Offers rigorous, multicultural training in the construction and critiques of historical and contemporary models of ethical leadership.

Who should enroll in the program?

• Current or prospective undergraduate students planning for or already engaged in careers in business, education, science, healthcare, law, social science, CITS, biotechnology, and humanities. In brief, all undergraduate majors can integrate and benefit from this minor.