¶ … Un) Ethical Leadership and Identity: The main topic of the article is to identify and comment on the major findings originating from the collective initiatives on the issue of leadership, ethics, and identity. In order to explore this special issue, the article highlights various aspects including definitional advancements, processes in ethical leadership, and the results and moderating factors of ethical leadership. As part of the author's initiatives to explore the topic in detail, he has started by a comprehensive definition of ethical and unethical leadership. Based on an analysis of the article and the author's writing style, he is writing to both academic and professional audience. The author communicates what has been learned and need for future considerations with regard to ethical and unethical leadership and identity.

Notably, Hunter (2012) has solicited various manuscripts focusing on leadership, ethics, and identity in order to develop his special issue (p. 79). As a special issue based on the collected articles, he...

In this regard, he touches on what every manuscript states about the significant aspects and topics within the special issue. Some of the articles used include one on ethical leadership where unethical leadership has been discussed in relation to issues like spiritual leadership, authentic leadership, and transformational leadership. While the other article also focuses on unethical leadership, it analyzes supervisor's behavior with regards to violating the moral standards through abusive supervision.
In summary, ethical leadership can be defined as a moving target whereby what constitutes ethical leadership may differ at one point in time by both time frame and identity. Conceptual growth in each of the articles aims at not only identifying important end results of ethical leadership, but also the factors driving the occurrence of it as well as the actions it comprises. In contrast, unethical leadership is described as behaviors by…