Analyzing Ethical Leadership: A Case Study of Woolworths and Best Practices

ANALYSE ETHICAL LEADERSHIP 0
Ethical leadership
Student’s name
2/6/2019

Analyse Ethical Leadership 1
Contents
Introduction of the project..........................................................................................................2
Ethics..........................................................................................................................................2
WOOLWORTHS – Introduction and ethical standards & practices.........................................2
Discussion 1............................................................................................................................2
Discussion 2............................................................................................................................2
Discussion 3............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

Analyse Ethical Leadership 2
Introduction
This project is all about finding the ethical practices in an organisation that can be example of
best-case model for other business organisations. For this, I have chosen WOOLWORTHS in
Australia who work on good ethics and practices for analysing ethical leadership in an
organisation. In this project, the qualities of the organisations leadership are discussed, that is
integrity, honesty, transparency, fairness, sustainability etc. An effect of different
management and leadership styles on an organization and these are autocratic, democratic
and laissez faire. The leadership’s decisions which is about communication between people,
motivation among people, and control of activities within an organization are discussed.
Ethics
Ethics is a word originated from the Greek word ‘Ethikos’ which means arising from habit. It
is a moral principle, which governs what is morally right and wrong. Similarly, ethical
leadership is a leadership in which an individual has its obligations, to maintain integrity,
trust, dignity and fairness in the organization.
Woolworths – Introduction and ethical standards & practices
Woolworths is one of the leading Australian company. It is the leading private employer in
Australia. It has more than 3000 stores in Australia and New Zealand and offers employment
to about 180,000 people (WHL18, 2018)
Discussion 1 Qualities of organization’s leadership:
Integrity: In this manual, Woolworth defined its set of rules to conduct business with their
customers. The guidelines help the members of Woolworths to take decisions in a tough
situation. They may face in day-to-day execution of the business and help them to satisfy
their customer with its services.
Woolworths ombuds process: This process acquainted freedom to employees to disclose any
information without fear, if he believes malpractices, unethical and unsavoury happenings in
the organization for the sake of prevention of any future ramifications.
Environment protection & sustainability: Woolworths arranges better working environments
for its workers protect the basic social privileges and guarantee complete security of its close
environment. They work to uphold sustainability by undertaking the correct thing in a correct
manner as a result that wrong activities are averted. A new vision has developed in the fight
between Woolworths and Coles as mutually chains flash to execute determined new