本课程通过一整套问题和议题来引导学生学习阅读材料。从Gutenberg项目网站上你可以下载大量的阅读材料——你可以从阅读资料网页中获得更多的信息。

The course features an extensive set of questions and issues to guide students through the reading materials. A number of the readings are available for download from the Project Gutenberg site - see the readings section for more information.

我们的主题是领导者的道德观， 即在问题产生时，对执行的权威所采用的准则的来源及合法性,做一个检测。本课程将主要采用案例学习的形式来演示如何将道德标准运用于商业环境，但是我们关注的重点将是想象文学的经典著作，他们比案例学习更直接地传递了制定决策时的道德压力。阅读内容包括莎士比亚, 索福克勒斯, 萧伯纳, 佛罗斯特、约瑟夫?康拉德, 乔治?奥威尔, 陀思妥耶夫斯基,易卜生等。讨论的问题包括权威的来源、一致意见的管理、职业理想、欺骗的道德、权宜之计的道德、阶级的条件、忠诚的利弊、极端情况下的相关道德准则。

Our subject is the ethics of leadership, an examination of the principles appealed to by executive authority when questions arise about its sources and its legitimacy. Most treatments of this subject resort to case-studies in order to illustrate the application of ethical principles to business situations, but our primary emphasis will be upon classic works of imaginative literature, which convey more directly than case-studies the ethical pressures of decision-making. Readings will include works by Shakespeare, Sophocles, Shaw, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Henrik Ibsen, among others. Topics to be discussed include the sources of authority, the management of consensus, the ideal of vocation, the ethics of deception, the morality of expediency, the requirements of hierarchy, the virtues and vices of loyalty, the relevance of ethical principles in extreme situations.