Ethical Leadership Between Governance and Human Nature

Abstract

This paper discusses the relationship between ethical leadership and good governance; furthermore, it highlights specific concepts and issues of ethical leadership and good governance. The remarks of this paper are based on the scholars’ viewpoint on ethical leadership, human nature, leadership and good governance in general, as leadership means guidance and leading, thus people/communities expect leaders to practice codes and principles of ethics in leading the institutions, people and community or the country. In the 21st century ethical leadership and good governance as new trends of governance have attracted the scholars’ attention, however, as a discipline of study, it is better developed and focused in the developed world compared to the developing world, since corruption, governance failure, poverty, hunger, conflict, and multifactor failures are experienced in the current century in the developing world.