Values Based Leadership

How do we lead with our values? How do we respect the values of others in a diverse organization? How do we design organizations that help ourselves and others act in line with our values?

Course Introduction

Kaltura

This course explores ethical issues faced by managers and organizations, and provides analytical frameworks as well as the latest findings on human behavior to inform ethical decisions and strategies. No matter our level in the organization, we all make decisions that affect our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our values are revealed in these decisions.

Readings involve controversial case studies, insights from psychology and behavioral science, and a brief introduction to philosophical perspectives. Through exercises, surveys, online discussions, and personal reflection participants will clarify their own values, think through managerial dilemmas, discover the diversity of viewpoints among their classmates, practice articulating recommendations compellingly, and find out how to avoid social and cognitive pitfalls that get in the way of values-based leadership.

Key Topics

  • Responsibilities an executive has to shareholders, employees, customers, and society
  • Identifying, understanding, and resolving values-based disagreements 
  • Overcoming psychological impediments to ethical decision-making and implementing values-based leadership in one’s own life
  • Shaping an organization’s values

Course Faculty

The David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy
The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy

Contact

Marineh Lalikian
Director, Stanford LEAD Online Business Program Executive Education