16 May 2018
Bilbao Campus
Deusto Business Alumni and the Fondation Ethical Cluster of the Basque Country with the support of the BKK Foundation and the Centre of Applied Ethics organised on 16th May the Congress on Ethical Leadership in the Basque Country - Ethical leadership in business.
In the opening session, the president of Deusto Business Alumni raised relevant questions, such as: can we call leadership to something that is not ethical or what is the importance of people in organisations, the relevance of leadership and its responsibility.
The Rector of the University of Deusto, José María Guibert talked about “the Ignatian Leadership”. According to José María Guibert, San Ignacio was “a generous and committed person, who went through different stages during his life, with aspirations and social skills, a leadership based on a lifestyle”. He was a person with mindfulness and emotional intelligence. In his opinion, leadership means “acting, having ideas to move, looking for solutions, which means discerning, changing approaches and working in collaboration to achieves objectives”. For José María Guibert, leadership means having personal competences, such as self-awareness, emotional self-regulation, service, spirituality, relationship, teams, cooperative dimension, decisions, change, corporation reflection, consultation, knowledge of the mission, environment, faith and dialogue, justice and ecology, strategy and management.
Adela Cortina, Professor of Ethics at the University of Valencia, also participated in the event with an intervention on "Ethical leadership in the company". She mentioned the numerous definitions on what is a leader, highlighting one of them: "a person capable of moving a group, being its guide and giving it confidence".
