Assignment: Ethical leadership
Summited by: Bikram Prajapati, King’s college
International American University
Subject: BUS 700 Capstone
Submitted to: Dr. Joe Siegmund and Dr. Raj Kumar Sharma
Date: November 23, 2014 Defining Ethical leadership: Ethics is about knowing and doing what is right. The right thing in one culture may not right for other culture. What is right in one situation may not right in another situation. Ethics is about doing and performing own responsibility fairly being under the code of conduct. Ethics are based on social norms and logical coherent philosophy. It’s about defining what is wrong and what is right and acting in right way to perform task. Ethical leadership is a good character of leader and holding a right values to influence their follower. Ethical leader act and makes decision ethically. Being under the law and code of conduct they need to perform. Secondly they must also lead ethically. The ways how they interact with the other, their attitude and the ways how they interact must be ethically. It’s a process of behaving others as we expect from other. It’s a way of being and making right choice. Some important component of ethical leadership are:
• The ability to work for the betterment of the organization or society where leader belongs. It’s an ability of leading the organization and serving the follower need.
• The ability to encourage and performance management and career engagement of the follower. Takes feedback and
Anticipate the ethical conflict: after the resolution of the conflict, it is important to find out how future conflicts can be prevented (Nelson, 2015, p. 48). PHMC’s CEO should implement standards of ethical conduct and become a role model of it (Perry, 2014, p. 35). By exercising leadership many of the ethical conflict can be avoided and the whole organization is impacted positively. The textbook quotes Bennis and Namus (1985, 186) to define a leader: “leaders are persons who are able to influence others; this influence helps to establish the organizational climate for ethical conduct; ethical conduct generates trust; and trust contributes substantially to the long term success of the organization” (Perry, 2014, p. 36).
Ethics is a system of moral principles, the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc. medical ethics; Christian ethics. Moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of confidence. Common theme to all of the various definitions of ethics: "Do the right thing". As OTA 's we belong to a professional group. Group membership implies compliance with fundamental principles of the group.
Ethics is deciding what is right or wrong using ones moral principles. These two work hand in hand and are supposed to be followed by all businesses and employees. In short Professionalism is what is expected and ethics are what is expected not to do. Application to Movie In the movie
Ethics are moral priciples that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity. In the practice of therapeutic hypnosis, there are many important ethical issues to consider in relation to patient safety and quality of care. Different therapeutic approaches will entail different ethical beliefs, but all behaviour on the part of hypnotherapists is obviously bound by national law and professional guidelines. Increasing administrative duties and legal pressures on therapists unfortunately encourage many to focus primarily on record-keeping and avoiding litigation rather than actual quality of care.
Management or leaders will need to demonstrate a priority on ethics, thoroughly communicate the expectations on ethical practice, have ethical decision making. And support the local ethical programs. Having a manager or leader that has accountability with ethical consideration has a balance of holding one true to its values and having ethical considerations on the different cultural backgrounds. This is a critical and key factor to a successful health care organization. Knowing, and understanding as a manager and influencing employees to follow standards that when something is misunderstood or unknown, owning up to its behavior on the situation can be corrected and guided to what is expected from the leader or manager and down to the employees.
Ethics and Morals Ethical leaders must possess strong ethical and moral values. People often confuse ethics with morals, and while they have different meanings many researchers agree that one cannot exist without the other. Ethics can be defined as a code of behavior in reference to a group, for example in the law enforcement police officers have the Code of Ethics, they can be viewed as principles, standards or a guideline of how police officers should behave and act. Groups can vary from law
Ethical leadership and behavior is a challenge to law enforcement officers. Many reason exist as to why there is a challenge. Although challenges exist within police departments across the entire world, the challenges could be prevented or avoided. Officers who lack courage, honesty, and loyalty to the people the sworn to protect need to find a different profession. Leadership and leadership mentoring needs to be implemented in law enforcement training.
Ethical leadership includes efforts to encourage ethical behaviour as well as efforts to stop unethical practices. Ethical leaders seek to build mutual trust and respect among diverse followers and to find integrative solutions to conflicts among stakeholders with competing interests (Yuki, 2012). As Starbucks have grown to now more than 23,000 stores in over 70 countries, ethical leadership has lead them commit in create global social impact in neighbourhoods around the world. This has aligned with its vision that together elevates their partners, customers, suppliers and neighbours to create positive change.
However, leaders are in position to train each employee and develop a work relationship of trust. Consequently, if the line or operating manager establishes trust with the employee then an increase in productivity may become visible. Thus, management is expected to lead and guide work rules indicating the work behavior he or she possesses. Inasmuch as, the human resource professional is not only able to explain ethical stewardship, but also assist the line and operation managers to achieve long term work goals that employees can adhere to and follow. However, the duty of an employee’s attribute should consist of ethical stewardship.
Introduction Honesty, fairness, responsibility, respect, transparency; these are only a few of the words that come to mind when the subject is ethics. What exactly is ethics? Valdemar Setzer once said "Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking but also our feeling" (Valdemar V. Setzer). The Mariam-Webster dictionary defines ethics as, “rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad; an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior; a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong; a belief that something is very important” (Merriam-Webster). Ethics is the factor to know how to handle and deal with decisions
According to research by Mayer, Aquino, Greenbaum, and Kuenzi (2012), moral leaders will often practice appropriate business ethics. In turn, the leader establishes similar positive ethical attribute in all fronts of their organization, since the employees and stakeholders are prompted to follow suit. This is in line with Terris’ (2005) opinion in the book Ethics at Work. Terris commends the Lockheed-Martin program for institutionalizing functioning work ethics at the administrative level (Terris, 2005, p. 47). Furthermore, according LRN research conducted in the United States, most of the full-time workers preferred working in an ethical company, suggesting the importance of leaders and stakeholders’ ethical behavior in the organization (Dubrin, 2010).
What is Ethical Leadership some may ask. It is leadership that shows through the actions of having respect for ethical beliefs and values, and for the dignity and rights of others. Ethics is associated with the morals and values an individual finds desirable. It is a philosophical term originating from Greek word “ethos” meaning custom or character. While in the United States Marine Corps, the definition of ethics in an organizational setting was as follows:
This semester at COSTAATT was one of the hardest I ever experience thus far, but I must admit that it was also one of those that encouraged me to really come out of my comfort zone and work harder than ever before. Leadership and Ethics opened my eyes to what leadership really means, I learned that people aren’t necessarily born leaders, that leadership (more importantly, good leadership) can be learned, practiced, and mastered. I also learned that I can be my biggest roadblock to my own success as well as the biggest positive influence. It do not matter the rank, position or status, anyone can lead anyone else. In this course I became more introspective about my current leadership roles and the tweaks I could make to communicate more effectively and be a “better” leader
Ethics and integrity is essential and played an important role in helping the growth of the business. Behave ethically could contribute to good performance and customers’ satisfaction. This lead maintains and expands the relationship between both parties and indirectly would increase company reputation (Bandsuch, M 2009). According to the Trevino & Nelson (2010), behave in ethics and integrity not only could stronger the relationship with the customers, but also the relationship with the stakeholders.
It is the responsibility of leadership to decide what culture is ethically acceptable and what is not. Good culture is promoted by shared ethical values. Ethical leadership recognizes the behavior which is inconsistent with the desired organization cultural values. The management of ethical behavior in corporate culture is also a practice of ethical leadership. A company’s leadership is also involved training to handle the unethical dilemmas.