Taking stock of moral approaches to leadership: An integrative review of ethical, authentic, and servant leadership

G. James Lemoine*, Chad A. Hartnell, Hannes Leroy

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Abstract

Moral forms of leadership such as ethical, authentic, and servant leadership have seen a surge of interest in the 21st century. The proliferation of morally based leadership approaches has resulted in theoretical confusion and empirical overlap that mirror substantive concerns within the larger leadership domain. Our integrative review of this literature reveals connections with moral philosophy that provide a useful framework to better differentiate the specific moral content (i.e., deontology, virtue ethics, and consequentialism) that undergirds ethical, authentic, and servant leadership, respectively. Taken together, this integrative review clarifies points of integration and differentiation among moral approaches to leadership and delineates avenues for future research that promise to build complementary rather than redundant knowledge regarding how moral approaches to leadership inform the broader leadership domain.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)148-187
Number of pages40
JournalAcademy of Management Annals
Volume13
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jan 2019

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