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Discussion 1

Ethical leadership is a leadership style in which individuals exhibit behavior that is reasonable and necessary in every aspect of their lives, for the general welfare.

1. What is ethical leadership and how it affects the culture of the organization.

Ethical leadership is a leadership style in which individuals exhibit behavior that is reasonable and necessary in every aspect of their lives, for the general welfare. It is made up of three main elements: Be the Example. Leading by example is a noble quality of a leader. The nurturing leadership aspect can also elevate the culture and values of an organization and its workers to greater levels of ethical behavior. We cultivate a high level of integrity by demonstrating ethical leadership that encourages a sense of trust and promotes subordinates to understand and follow our vision.). Ethical leaders are characterized by impartiality, honesty, and trustworthiness, and they generally exercise authority according to moral principles (Brown etal., 2005).

2. Different dimensions of ethical leadership.

The recurring themes are honesty, faith, truthfulness, bravery, and empathy. The two most widely cited examples of human ethics are honesty and dependability. A good manager has intellectual honesty and is trustworthy.

3. Some shortcomings in ethical leadership and potential ways to fix leadership problems.

Failures in ethical leadership can be triggered by numerous forms of issues that can get worse. The list covers things individual members do or don't do, and things organizations do or don't do to set a good example and foster ethical thought and behavior. Problems in ethical leadership can be caused by a variety of forms of issues that can get worse. Many of these concerns are triggered by people, and others may be rooted in the culture of an organization.

Here are some of the factors which can result in ethical failures. The list contains things individual members do or do not do, and things organizations will or will not do to set a good example and promote ethical thought and behavior.

These variables are related and, when something goes wrong, it is sometimes hard to isolate just one of them. These include individual causes where individuals disregard limits (denying codes of ethics and corporate principles that discourage action) and the inability of using self-control ("I will just do that even though it is not permitted."). Organizational reasons entail lack of clarity ("What is ethical about here?"), No ethical principles of leadership and conduct ("There are no guidelines on this.") and the over-simplified laws ("Just do the proper thing.").

To fix the problem, our leader's goal should be to avoid the issues that lead to ethical leadership failure. To do this, they need to talk about the complexities that cause ethical concerns in our institutions as well as how to keep them from taking place.

 

References:

Brown, M. E., Treviño, L. K., & Harrison, D. A. (2005). Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2005.03.002

Zeng, J., & Xu, G. (2020). Linking ethical leadership to employee voice: The role of trust. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 48(8), 1–12.

Discussion 2

  Ethical Leadership can be defined as ethical conduct manifested by the leaders in their actions and in interpersonal relationship within the organization. The ethical leadership is required as random individuals within the organization need to be assembled for a common goal and purpose (Leigh, 2015). The ethics are essential in an organization culture not just to ensure profit, but also to buy loyalty of the employees. Organization per se would not indulge in unethical practices, but individuals in an organization do. Hence it is essential to enforce ethical conduct for smooth functioning of business. Ethics precede legalities, hence only once ethics are established, they could be made legal in the form of policies. Leaderships with ethical values and ethical work culture is like hidden mutual trust agreement between organization and employee that motivates the employee to have an ethical conduct and compliance to the policies.

            The ethical leadership might comprise of various dimensions that include commitment, Integrity, perspective and inter-personal relations (Leigh, 2015). The commitment towards the goal, vision and work would be one of the vital qualities of a leader. Integrity is the first thing expected from a leader, if not, founder of a company would not expect a corrupt leader to be smart. There would be a trust deficit in the organization and even between the higher management if the integrity of leaders is at stake. The perspective with which employees are viewed is very essential for success of an organization. The most important thing in ethical leadership would be inter-personal relationship, which ultimately let the company sail the wave, without any deviations.

            One of the best examples of ethical leadership is wall street financial crisis in 2008, where artificially inflated values of security bonds, subprime borrowers inflating the [prices of homes by misusing low mortgage rates has led to burst of bubble (Schulz, 2016). These unethical practices have wrecked several homes, impoverished the vulnerable and triggered an unemployment crisis.

            These kinds of crisis could be avoided by invoking some ethical practices into and by leadership of an organization. Transparency of stock value and identifying the real value of stock and being truthful about the value of asset would help avoiding the company to be led into crisis. The leadership should try influence and impost ethical standards on employees. The leadership shall keep a carrot and stick kind of a setup for enforcing ethical conduct by employees. The leadership by themselves shall be committed to ethical standards that have been implemented. The employees shall be treated appropriately with care to win their loyalty. These practices would ensure the maintenance of ethical compass of the organization and avoid fraudulent practices.    

                                                                                          References

Schulz, J. (2016). Part One: Theorizing the Financial Crisis. From Wall Street to Main Street, 27-92. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-16268-9_2

Leigh, A. (2015). Ethical leadership: Creating and sustaining an ethical business culture. London: KoganPage.