Ethics and leadership: Could there be a world standard?
A person could leave Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and arrive in Sydney, Australia in approximately 20 hours, a short amount of time considering that you are going around the world. While it only takes a few seconds for that same person in Chicago to speak with a friend who is in Japan whether it is with a phone call or through a video conference. As our economies are becoming more dependent on one another Rushworth M. Kidder poses the question, “Is there in fact a single set of values that wise, ethical people around the world might agree on? Can there be a global code of ethics? If there is a common core of values “out there” in the world, it ought to be identifiable though examination of contemporary modes of thought in various cultures around the world. Can it be found?” (Kidder, p501, 1995). This question was posed to twenty-four men and women from around the world who was though of by their peers as an “ethical standard-bearer, a keeper of the conscience of the community, a center of moral gravity” (Kidder, p501, 1995). Each person could agree that a global ethics could exist. Listed is the code of moral that each of the leaders could agree upon.
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