Recommended Reading
Readers of Morality and Morale may be interested in books written by Dr. Keith that relate to servant leadership and meaning:
The Case for Servant Leadership (Greenleaf Center, 2008)
Servant Leadership in the Boardroom (Greenleaf Center, 2011)
Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2002)
Do It Anyway: Finding Personal Meaning and Deep Happiness by Living the Paradoxical Commandments (New World Library, 2003/2008)
Here are some books and articles that Dr. Keith has found useful regarding morality and morale in the workplace:
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right (Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing (Harvard Business School Press, 2002)
Peter F. Drucker, Concept of the Corporation (Transaction Publishers, 1946/2011).
Russell A. Eisenstat, Michael Beer, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren, “The Uncompromising Leader,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2008.
Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness (Paulist Press, 1977/2002).
Charles Handy, The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism: A Quest for Purpose in the Modern World (Broadway Books, 1998).
Rushworth M. Kidder, Moral Courage (HarperCollins, 2005).
Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Penguin Press, 2005).
Henry Mintzberg, “Rebuilding Companies as Communities,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009.
Michael Novak, Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (The Free Press, 1996).
Kenneth W. Thomas, Intrinsic Motivation at Work: Building Energy & Commitment (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002).
James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense (The Free Press, 1993).