Ethical leadership helps an organization identify its purpose, express its values, and turn them into decisions and actions. Because leaders influence strategy, culture, and governance, their conduct can shape how the organization treats employees and other stakeholders.
Leadership is the ability to influence followers to achieve common goals through shared purposes. It is not simply a position of authority: leadership also involves helping people understand what they are working toward and why.
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What is leadership?
Leadership is the ability to influence followers to achieve common goals through shared purposes.
How did Chester Barnard describe values-based leadership?
As inspiring cooperative decisions through faith in a shared understanding, the possibility of success, personal satisfaction, and the integrity of a shared purpose.
What is stewardship in leadership?
A leadership approach in which leaders care for followers and empower them to make decisions and control their work.
What does servant leadership place at the center of leadership?
Service to others and a greater cause, rather than the leader's self-interest.
What does honesty require of an ethical leader?
Communicating reality accurately and with enough detail for others to understand, while considering the circumstances.
Quiz questions
What does respect for employees as ends in themselves require?Answer: Recognizing their intrinsic worth rather than treating them only as tools for organizational results.
Why might treating people differently be consistent with fairness?Answer: Relevant differences in needs or situations may justify different treatment to achieve a just outcome.
Which principle is central to servant leadership?Answer: Prioritizing service to others over personal recognition and self-interest.
What is ethical blindness?Answer: Failing to notice an ethical issue, perhaps through inattention or inability.
Which areas are included in Ethisphere's Ethics Quotient framework?Answer: Ethics and compliance, culture, citizenship and responsibility, governance, and leadership, innovation, and reputation.
Based on Principles of Management by David S. Bright, Anastasia H. Cortes, Eva Hartmann, K. Praveen Parboteeah, Jon L. Pierce, Monique Reece, Amit Shah, Siri Terjesen, Joseph Weiss, Margaret A. White, Donald G. Gardner, Jason Lambert et al. (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.