Leadership Character and Corporate Governance
商品編號：9B13TC07
出版日期：2013/05/01
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商品來源：Ivey Business Journal
商品主題：Organizational Behaviour/Leadership
商品類型：Article
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Corporate directors should look for three criteria in executives: competencies, commitment, and character. This article focuses on leadership character, the least understood of the three criteria. The authors met with over 300 business leaders on three continents, who identified character weaknesses or defects — including overconfidence, lack of transparency, and lack of accountability — as central to the Global Financial Crisis. The authors posit 11 dimensions of character — integrity, humility, courage, humanity, drive, accountability, temperance, justice, collaboration, transcendence, and judgment. They examine why character has not been studied extensively, given its relation to the crisis, and point to the lack of resources that the private and public sectors have spent on studying character (in contrast to competencies), as well as the common misperception of character as a “soft,” non-quantifiable construct. Character is revealed by how individuals behave in particular situations, and a full character assessment requires a deep and wide-ranging examination of a person’s life and work history over an extensive time period. Directors can influence character development in their organizations by discussing dimensions of character during appraisal processes, developing formal leadership profiles, and introducing character-focused discussion into their own board assessments.
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