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JOURNAL OF LEADERSHIP, ACCOUNTABILITY AND ETHICS
A Study of the Relationship Between Moral Maturity and Respondent’s
Self-Rated Leadership Style
Author(s): Charles R. Salter, Mary H. Harris, Mark Woodhull, Jay McCormack
Citation: Charles R. Salter, Mary H. Harris, Mark Woodhull, Jay McCormack, (2013) "A Study of the Relationship Between Moral Maturity and Respondent’s Self-Rated Leadership Style," Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, Vol. 10, Iss. 5, pp. 96 - 108
Article Type: Research paper
Publisher: North American Business Press
Abstract:
The study of moral development and the effects it has on decision making have garnered a good deal of
interest in the last thirty years. Rest, Thoma, and Narvaez (1999e) discuss the cognitive schemas
associated with the different levels of moral development as stated by Kohlberg (1984). Rest et al.
(1999e) suggest that cognitive moral schemas present in our conscious aid our retention of factual
similarities between our experiences and ultimately aid in our decision making and search for further
information. This implicit moral theory is similar to the leadership theory noted as Implicit Leadership
Theory or the theory that one also carries in her or his memory a certain slate of factors which they use
to identify a leader’s behavior as being those of a good leader or an ineffective leader (Salter, Green,
Ree, Carmody-Bubb, & Duncan, 2009).
