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This book provides perspective and guidance during times of increasing moral confusion due to � View metadata, citationcontending and similar global papers and atindigenous core.ac.uk messages, and leadership with a lack of brave confession, and brought to you by CORE ������ living out, of sound moral principles that may serve the common good in South Africa’s infant and provided by Stellenbosch University SUNScholar Repository fragile democracy. South Africa’s leadership from within and outside government is still faced with the consequences of the inhuman, unjust, and therefore immoral, policies of the past. At the same time, it is increasingly �� challenged to build and practise a shared collective morality that will restore the social fabric of ��������� society for the common good of all making a livelihood in this society. This book speaks directly to these important and crucial issues and confirms indeed that South Africa more than ever needs ethical leadership in the face of the moral challenges of her long-awaited transformation. ��� Cornie Groenewald – Emeritus Professor, Stellenbosch University � ��� The book Ethical Leadership and the Challenges of Moral Transformation is both challenging and timely. �� It is published at a critical period in the history of South Africa and the world as we face leadership challenges in the political and economic context. The greatest test for leadership in this decade will be its ethical and moral ��������� character. As the world is transforming politically and economically, transformational leadership must be rooted in ethics and morality for the sake of a next generation. This book contributes a variety of critical essays, some with novel methodological touch, to the regeneration of our world. � �� I recommend this book to anybody interested in new engagements with the real world through the art �� of morality. ���� Prof H Russel Botman – Rector & Vice-chancellor, Stellenbosch University �� ������������� This book is a most interesting anthology. The ideas of ethical leadership, the public good and the way in which disciplines and/or institutions intersect with those themes, are most apposite and to be commended. The text draws upon insights and scholarship from mainly a South African context and does so in a way which is accessible and meaningful to readers from other parts of the world. This is a strength. It is interdisciplinary but held together tightly through the notions of ‘ethical leadership’ and the idea of ‘in and through’. This strategy enables the reader who is a specialist in one discipline to easily ‘jump’ to another. The concern for the common good, ethics and the interdisciplinary nature of the text broaden the potential appeal. Clive Pearson – Principal, United Theological College, Sydney, and Associate head of School, School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Australia ����������������������������� ��������� Ethical Leadership and the Challenges of Moral Transformation EDITOR DR GORDON E. DAMES Ethical Leadership and the Challenges of Moral Transformation Published by SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch 7600 www.africansunmedia.co.za www.sun-e-shop.co.za All rights reserved. Copyright © 2009 Gordon E. Dames No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic, photographic or mechanical means, including photocopying and recording on record, tape or laser disk, on microfilm, via the Internet, by e-mail, or by any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission by the publisher. First edition 2009 ISBN: 978-1-920338-02-2 e-ISBN: 978-1-920338-35-0 DOI: 10.18820/9781920338350 Cover design by Ilse Roelofse Typesetting by SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch Set in 11/15 Arno Pro SUN PReSS is an imprint of SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch. Academic, professional and reference works are published under this imprint in print and electronic format. This publication may be ordered directly from www.sun-e-shop.co.za Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Section One: The habitats of ethical leadership ......................................... 17 Chapter 1: Ethical leadership in and through families ........................................................................ 19 Nico Koopman Chapter 2: Litmus test or catalyst; vanguard or vandals..................................................................... 29 Rudi Buys Chapter 3: Ethical leadership in and through religious traditions ............................................... 47 Clint Le Bruyns Chapter 4: Ethical leadership in and through gender and sexuality ........................................... 61 Tamara Shefer Section Two: Corporate and institutional ethical leadership ................... 81 Chapter 5: Ethical leadership in and through labour ............................................................................ 83 Sue Mcwatts and Geraldine Kennedy Chapter 6: Ethical leadership in and through business ....................................................................... 107 Ethics in action ...................................................................................................................................................... 109 Willie Esterhuyse Responsible corporate citizenship and the ideals of the UN Global Compact ....... 112 Oliver F. Williams The bottom line ethics in business .......................................................................................................... 117 Janine Myburgh Building ethical leadership in and through business .................................................................... 121 Gordon Dames Chapter 7: Ethical leadership in and through politics .......................................................................... 131 Courtney Sampson Section Three: Ethical leadership formation .............................................. 145 Chapter 8: Building ethical leadership in and through education ............................................... 147 Colleen Howell Index ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 157 Preface This collection of essays makes a substantial contribution to knowledge, in particular to the subject area. The topic is the emerging area of ethical leadership in a variety of contexts. In recent years, this area of ethical leadership has only been dealt with in fragmentary ways in specific societies. This volume is one of the very few which has attempted to bring coherence and analysis to this issue. Work of this kind has been carried out in relation to Northern Ireland, for example, but not to the extent that has been attempted here. The collection clearly demonstrates considerable originality both in the subject area and the variety of methodologies used. It is original in that in recent years only limited research from such a wide variety of perspectives was done on the dynamics of ethical leadership in the development of new societies. The authors have both theoretical and practical expertise in their areas of research. They have used that expertise in a sustained and convincing manner. There is originality in terms of methodology. The authors’ interests are primarily in ethics. They apply appropriate perspectives with which to engage with the subject in a full and fascinating manner. Each author understands how his or her own investigation relates to the wider cultural, socio-economical, political, educational and ethical contexts of current societies. The authors’ critical insight and their interactions with a variety of concepts in scientific theory in relation to ethical leadership are cogently and coherently argued. This is a very fine collection, and the individual authors and the editor are to be congratulated on this publication. Reverend Professor James Haire AM KSJ MAOxon PhDBirm HonDDBelf HonDLittUlster DUnivGriffith Professor of Theology, Charles Sturt University (CSU) Executive Director, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, CSU Director, Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre, CSU Canberra, Australia 14 March 2009 Acknowledgements The publication of this book concludes the work of the Ethical Leadership Project (ELP) from 2005 to 2008. The title, Ethical Leadership and the Challenges of Moral Transformation, represents the invaluable reflections of the authors and embodies a vision for the common good of, and the unique challenges facing, South Africans. This volume captures the rich and diverse, but also collective perspectives from a broad spectrum of leaders in South Africa. The book speaks to, from and beyond the broader South African context. We wish to introduce the various authors in this book.1 We do so, not merely as a formality, but in recognition of their coherent vision and collective commitment to a morally transformed society. Nico Koopman, a founder and board member of the ELP, is Professor in Ethics and Public Theology at the Theology Faculty of the Stellenbosch