Moral Intuition and Moral Leader Development

This chapter explores how moral intuition can enhance our understanding of effective moral leader development. It is suggested that moral intuition complements existing common rational deliberation approaches to moral leader development, and thus offers development opportunities that were formerly unavailable or less adequately considered. The purposeful integration of moral intuition into leader development will be highly useful for equipping leaders with the appropriate ethical competence and, as many ethical problems in organizations emerge from a failure of leadership, help prevent ethical lapses in organizations.