Leadership Discourse, Culture, and Corporate Ethics: CEO-speak at News Corporation

We explore the language of leadership of global media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2010, the year before the phone-hacking scandal in the UK came to public attention. Subsequent public enquiries in the UK exposed unethical conduct by staff of News Corporation, a global corporation whose Chairman and CEO...

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Главные авторы: Amernic, Joel (Автор) ; Craig, Russell (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2013
В: Journal of business ethics
Год: 2013, Том: 118, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 379-394
Другие ключевые слова:B Leadership
B Ethics
B Discourse
B Rupert Murdoch
B News Corporation
B Culture
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Итог:We explore the language of leadership of global media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 2010, the year before the phone-hacking scandal in the UK came to public attention. Subsequent public enquiries in the UK exposed unethical conduct by staff of News Corporation, a global corporation whose Chairman and CEO was Rupert Murdoch. We focus on the ethical climate fashioned by ‘A Letter from Rupert Murdoch’ that appeared in the opening pages of the annual report of News Corporation for the year ended 30 June 2010. Plausibly, Murdoch’s discourse in that letter helped condition the inapt, unethical conduct of News Corporation staff. We highlight the cultural and ethical signs that were embedded in Murdoch’s letter and which reflected the company’s tone at the top and ethical values. We identify signs of a perverse leadership thinking that possibly help explain the inappropriate cultural values and ethical behaviours that were revealed subsequently in evidence presented to public inquiries.
ISSN:1573-0697
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1506-0