• Third, that leaders take responsibility for delivering on the commitments and representations made to followers in negotiating the compact between leader and followers. Thus, moral leadership is not mere preaching, or the uttering of or the insistence on social conformity. Moral leadership and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of followers in his sense, moral leadership is very different from thin veneer of participation that administrators frequently use to give their relationships with followers some patina of genuine involvement while control remains firmly in the administrators' hands.