Leader Ethos and Big-C Character

Leader Ethos and Big-C Character

Leader character, ethos, and virtue: Individual and collective considerations

Available online 19 August 2011 We advance the discussion that each leader has a moral component that can be defined as character that is distinct from values, personality, and other similar constructs. We seek to clarify what underpins forms of character-based leadership and exemplary leader behaviors. We build out our previous discussion (Hannah & Avolio, this issue) that the locus of charact...

Building Character for Artificial Conversational Agents: Ethos, Ethics, Believability, and Credibility

Because ethos is an unavoidable component of dialogue and forms the basis for believing and being persuaded by another's speech, it is an important topic for AI researchers. This paper examines the concept of ethos, especially Aristotle's notions of situated and invented ethos, as it functions in oral and written discourse and then explores what happens to ethos in computer-mediated human-to-hu...

Ethos and the Construction of a Believable Character for Information Systems

Within information science, work on information credibility often focuses on generalized models of user assessment behavior and associated properties that mark credible information across document types, user groups, and communicative purposes. As conceptualized within the field of rhetoric, however, ethos, or a form of persuasive appeal that centers around a speaker’s believability, is situati...

Authentication in Ethos

Authentication primitives should be simple, general, and robust against attack. We describe the authentication mechanisms of Ethos, an experimental, clean-slate operating system that has been designed for security. We reexamine and redesign software layering for authentication, and evaluate the resulting security properties. In Ethos, integrated network security and simplified local authenticat...