Course: Leadership tools for ethical problem-solving

Leaders are often confronted with quick decisions and as a result need some normative guidelines. In some cases, due to new technological or scientific development, there are no clear policies …

In this video, Professor Mollie Painter recaps the content of this short course, and links it to the more comprehensive, related microcredential.

In this video, Professor Mollie Painter explains the 5 rules of the ethics quick test.

In this video, Professor Mollie Painter explores what we mean when we talk about a dilemma.

So, before we can interrogate the belief that something like transformational leadership is necessarily something ‘good’, we may need to make the distinction between ‘good’ in the normative/ethical sense, and …

Joanne Cuilla argued that leaders must be both ethical and effective. And in the responsible leadership literature, we see that these are indeed important criteria. Sometimes being very principled does …

Stakeholder-identification is a key building block in any ethical deliberation, since it ensures that all legitimate interests are being acknowledged and protected. How is the term ‘stakeholder’ defined? “Simply put, …

Hi, I’m Professor Mollie Painter. I lead the Responsible and Sustainable Business Lab, at Nottingham Business School, and I’ll be taking you through this short course in problem-solving. In this …

Mollie Painter Role Professor Mollie Painter is an international scholar and public speaker specialising in business ethics, CSR, sustainability and responsible leadership. She has held academic positions in South Africa, …

Hi, and welcome to week 2! This week we will be exploring the types of situations that place leaders in a difficult situation in terms of taking values-driven action. These …

As ethicists working all over the world, we often get asked to help leaders design processes that could help them think though the ethical dilemmas that have emerged because of …

Welcome to week 1. This week you will come to understand the complexity around the idea of ‘leadership’. Though it is probably one of the most prominent terms used when …

The terms that typically emerge when you ask people what a leader is supposed to be and do include: Charismatic Transformational Visionary Inspirational Servant Genius Strategic Brilliant Authentic Strong Typically, …