Abstract The Western leadership research has mainly taken performance and ability as the evaluation benchmarks, in order to maximize organizational economic benefits. However, growing number of business scandals in recent years have aroused people’s deep thinking about how an organization could achieve continuous and healthy development, and ethical leadership is an effective response to this problem. This paper proposes an idea of constructing an indigenous Chinese ethical leadership by using Confucian virtue, namely the Confucian virtuous leadership, to emphasize that in today’s business world, especially in China, leaders need to take renewed interest in virtue. People need to think about how to evaluate leadership in today’s business world which is oriented by performance and profit.
2015, Vol. 12 
