What Does it Mean to Be Responsible? Addressing the Missing Responsibility Dimension in Ethical Leadership Research

This paper extends ethical leadership research by proposing a responsibility orientation for leaders. Responsible leadership is based on consideration of leaders as not isolated from the environment, as critically evaluating prevailing norms, as forward-looking, as sharing responsibility, and as aiming for collective problem solving. I show how adding such a responsibility orientation helps to address some remaining critical issues in ethical...