Can you be a good leader without being a good person? Dose it make any sense to say, for exemple, that Hitler was an effective leader even if he was an evil person? In that sense, while some might consider the phrase ethical leadership to be redundant, Avolio and his associates have defined ethical leadership as having two core components : the moral person and the moral manager. The moral person is seen as a principled decision maker who cares about people and the broader society. The actions of such people indicate they try to do the right things personally and professionally and they can be characterized as honest fair, and open. In addition, ethical leaders have clear ethical standards that they pursue in the face of pressure to do otherwise. More than being just moral people ethical leaders are moral managers who"make ethic an explicit part of their leader ship agenda by communicating an ethics and values message, by visibly and intention role modeling ethical behavior." In recent years there has been a rekindling of interest in approaches to leadership that are inherently and explicitly based on the interdependence between effective leadership and certain value systems This is in bold contrast to decades of tradition in the social sciences of being selfขconsciously "values-free" in pursuit of objectivity. Two prominent approaches in this movement are described in greater detail here.