Leadership Development Report

Components of the social responsibility element of the CMU LDP • Financial Ethics • Work-Place Ethics • Honesty and Integrity • Being Accountable • Courage of Convictions

Leaders must act with integrity, honesty, and justice. They must work in the best interest of others, showing respect and empathy for unique individual and cultural differences. Good leaders create a culture that promotes high ethical standards along with personal, organizational, and civic responsibility. Ethical leaders recognise and conduct themselves in concert with universal moral principles as well as specific values, laws, and ethics relevant to their group or organisation.

• Communicating with the Community • Helping the Community • Civic Action • Adopting Beneficial Values for Society • Providing a Good Example • Social Action

Leading others ethically

(D)

Civic responsibility

(A)

Social knowledge

(B)

Ethical processes

(C)

Acting with integrity

(E)

• Open-Door Policy • Instituting and Following Fair Procedures • Explaining Decisions in a Respectful Manner • Ensuring Ethical Behavior of Subordinates

• Servant Leadership • Valuing Diversity • Distributing Rewards Fairly • Responsibility for Others • Avoiding Exploitative Mentality

Social Responsibility

Knowledge of: • Sociology and Anthropology • History and Geography • Foreign Language • Philosophy and Theology • Organisational Justice Principles • Legal Regulations

Task Management Dimension

A Civic responsibility

A1 Communicating with the Community: Communicating organisation’s intentions and activities to the public (e.g., local press, radio, television) and representing the organisation in community affairs and public activities to promote awareness and foster goodwill.

A2 Helping the Community: Meeting the needs of the community by promoting opportunities for corporate giving of financial and human resources.

A3 Civic Action: Supporting participation in civic duties by encouraging others to vote and engaging in other duties of the political system.

A4 Adopting Beneficial Values for Society: Seeking and embracing values that benefit society rather than the organisation.

A5 Providing a Good Example: Always acting in accordance with society’s and the organisation’s laws, rules, and guidelines, and behaving in fair and ethical manner.

B Social knowledge

B1 Sociology and Anthropology Knowledge: Knowledge of the political systems, values, beliefs, economic practices, and leadership styles of countries other than your home country, as well as knowledge of universal group dynamics, behavior, and socio-cultural history.

B2 History and Geography Knowledge: Knowledge of the physical location and relationships between different land and sea regions and the historical events that have shaped the culture of inhabitants of these regions.

B3 Foreign Language Knowledge: Understanding a non-native language in order to communicate in oral and written form with people who speak that language.

B4 Philosophy and Theology Knowledge: Knowledge of ethics and the philosophical viewpoints behind various ethical models and understanding how different philosophical and religious systems affect behaviour of groups and individuals within a cultural context.

B5 Knowledge of Organisational Justice Principles: Knowing and understanding distributive justice, informational justice, interpersonal justice, and procedural justice and being able to apply those principles to ensure subordinates are treated fairly.

B6 Legal Regulations: Awareness of local, state, and federal laws and regulations and abiding by these regulations at all times.

C Ethical processes

C1 Open-Door Policy: Promoting a climate of openness and trust. Allowing individuals who are upset about an aspect of the organisation to voice displeasures without retribution or repercussions.

C2 Instituting and Following Fair Procedures: Instituting and applying rules and procedures in a consistent, unbiased, accurate, and correctable fashion to ensure that subordinates know that fair rules are being used.

C3 Explaining Decisions in a Respectful Manner: Explaining decisions that affect subordinates thoroughly and in a manner that demonstrates dignity and respect for the subordinates.

C4 Ensuring Ethical Behavior of Subordinates: Instituting, training, and reinforcing policies to ensure that subordinates treat each other and the organisation fairly and with respect and dignity. Disseminating information about laws and regulations to subordinates and make sure that they follow laws and regulations by overseeing, monitoring, and auditing behaviour. Disciplinary action should be taken against those who do not comply with laws and regulations.

D Leading others ethically

D1 Servant Leadership: Being attentive to the needs of followers, empathising with their concerns, and serving their best interests

D2 Valuing Diversity: Encouraging a wide range of viewpoints among team members in order to avoid groupthink and create more culturally sensitive solutions.

D3 Distributing Rewards Fairly: Ensuring that pay, recognition, and other rewards are distributed in a fair manner, with clear guidelines and enforcement of those guidelines.

D4 Responsibility for Others: Willingness to be responsible for the behavior of subordinates in your organisation and correct their unethical behaviours.

D5 Avoiding Exploitative Mentality: Not sacrificing concern for others or using people and exploiting them to achieve goals for the organisation.

E Acting with integrity

E1 Financial Ethics: Understanding and following ethical financial management and accounting principles.

E2 Work-Place Ethics: Understanding and following ethical guidelines at your work place.

E3 Honesty and Integrity: Behaving in an honest and ethical manner.

E4 Being Accountable: Accepting responsibility for the effects of your own actions.

E5 Courage of Convictions: Avoiding behaviour that is unethical even if it may appear ethical to the public or may be consistent with the public opinion. Upholding decisions that are ethical yet unpopular.