Essay On The Importance Of Ethics In Leadership

The study of problematic triad of leadership has been an eye opener for me this semester. I had always thought of bad leadership with regards to politics. That demotivated me in engaging in productive leadership discussion and issues. But this course provided a new expanded platform for leadership discussions making everyday issues like ethics, rights and duties and the rule of law, its base.

The role of ethics in defining leadership can never be underestimated. From the leadership projects, I discovered that the ignorance of ethics in the leadership costs Ghana money, reputation, and many lives. The existence of Agblogboshie in Greater Accra, the largest electronic waste dumpsite in the world, and, a hub cancer due to the exposure from its metallic poisons, is an instance of disregard towards ethics. Ethics comes in where corrupt customs official are bribed to allow containers full of electronic waste into the country. Looking at the Akan traditional concept of human rights, I realize that

Still, Rousseau explains that it is easier for people to enjoy rights as citizens than to do their duty as subjects of the state. Equally, from project discussions, I learnt that many problems arising like poor sanitation and the failure of SADA are mainly due failed duty. For Instance Accra Metropolitan Assembly has a duty to ensure existence of proper dumpsites, however, there is only one engineered dumpsites in Greater Accra, which makes me question their performance and leadership. Additionally, residents have a legal and moral duty to guard the environment to protect themselves and others from disease break outs .But the recent cholera break out in Accra and, creation of National Sanitation Day is a sign of failure of citizens in their moral duty of maintaining clean environment. I believe if citizens would observe their duty, then the creation for national sanitation day I will be