Creative and Ethical Leadership in the Transport Industry in UK

This presentation explores the role of creative and ethical leadership in the transport industry in UK. It discusses the importance of creativity and ethics in leadership, the skills required for leaders in the industry, research methods used, and the results obtained. The presentation also includes a questionnaire and its interpretation, as well as conclusions and references.

CREATIVE AND
ETHICAL
LEADERSHIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 Analysis of transport industry in UK
 Research Methods
 Literature review
 QUESTIONNAIRE
 Results
 Conclusion
 REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
 Creative and Ethical Leadership plays a very important role in the
organisations whether small or large.
 Organisational leaders face a great deal of pressure in finding the ways
which increases the creativity in the companies which is due to the
increasing globalisation, pace of technological change and competition.
 Creativity is considered as the core competence instead of becoming the
innate quality which is possessed by some individuals.
 The report will shed light on the transport industry in UK and the role of
creative and ethical leadership in it.

ANALYSIS OF TRANSPORT
INDUSTRY IN UK
 The UK transport and logistics industry have more than 200
practitioners which helps in providing broad range of
advisory, assurance and tax services to the operations and
transport companies of UK (Asif and et.al., 2019).
 It is observed that the transportation network must be
advanced for the process of economic growth.
 In order to adapt to the changes in the transport industry
and to accept the advancement in the same, the employees
as well as leaders must possess some skills such as
excellent customer service and communication skills, IT
literacy, planning and decision-making skills, creative and
ethical leadership, commercial awareness etc.

RESEARCH METHODS
 In the primary method, questionnaire will be used which will be asked
from oneself for the self evaluation regarding the creative and ethical
leadership skills whereas on the other hand, the literature review will be
used as the secondary method in which the various books, journals,
research papers, articles, publications etc. will be used to extract the
information from them regarding the ethical and creative leadership in
the tourists industry of UK.
 360 degree feedback will be used which is basically an evaluation
process which helps in providing information to the employee from
various different multiple sources such as the direct reports, internal and
external customers, stakeholders, supervisors, peers, consultants,
vendors etc.

LITERATURE REVIEW
 The ethical leadership includes various things which include doing justice
with everyone and not treating anyone unequally as compared to others on
any basis such as nationality, ethnicity or any other factor.
 The ethical leaders also believes in respecting others by listening them,
valuing their contributions, being generous and compassionate, must be
honest, humane and must be focussed on the team building.
 Along with becoming the ethical leaders, creativity also plays the equal role
as it helps in driving the productivity and fostering the success in the
companies in the transport industry.
 This also helps the ethical leaders for improving and growing as creative
leaders which can help in fostering the leadership qualities in them.

QUESTIONNAIRE
 Do you possess all the skills of an ethical leader? Yes No
 Interpretation: This is clearly interpreted from the above answer that the person is aware
of the skills of the ethical leader and also possesses the same. This is also identified from
the literature review that there are various skills which an ethical leader must have such as
honesty, humane, justice, leadership by example, team building and many more.
 Do you agree with the fact that you can act as a creative leader by finding new ways to
solve any problem?
Strongly agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly disagree
 Interpretation: It is clearly examined from the above answer that the person is agreed to
the fact but not strongly agreed because only finding new ways to solve the problems do
not make the leader creative, there can be numerous ways which helps the leaders in
becoming creative such as mentoring the teams in the workplace, achieving growth etc.
 Do you follow the ethics and creativity in order to solve the organisation problems? Yes No
 Interpretation: This is clearly observed from the answer above that the person follows
the ethics and also believe in creativity in order to solve most of the problems in the
organisation. This was also highlighted in the literature review that the leaders who are
ethical as well as creative can solve the majority of the organisational problems through
their skills.

CONTINUE…
 Which qualities will you use in the organisation to become ethical leader?
Doing justice to everyone
Respecting others contributions
Defining and aligning values
Beware of bias
All the above
 Interpretation: The person not only uses a particular skill for becoming an ethical leader but
makes use of various different skills such as doing justice to all the colleagues and employees,
defines and aligns the values of the employees as well as the company and also beware of doing
any sort of bias in any field.
 How can you motivate the employees in the transport company to achieve the organisational
goals?
Rewarding employees
Encouraging friendly competition
Acknowledging the employees’ achievement
All the above
 Interpretation: This is evaluated from the answer above that the person in order to motivate the
employees adapts various practices such as rewarding them, acknowledging their achievement
and also encourage friendly competition. These are the practices are ethical as well as creative
which means the person is ethical and creative leader.

RESULTS
 The results which are obtained from the literature review and the
questionnaire is that the person follows various practices in which none of
the practice is unethical or which cannot promote creativity in the
organisation. The person is aware of majority of the skills of the ethical
leaders which also can leads to development of creative employees. This
also helps in motivating the employees so that they can also give various
innovative ideas and opinion in order to achieve the organisational goals
and leads to the development of transport industry in UK.

CONCLUSION
 The above report is basically a portfolio which focussed upon the transport
industry in UK. The report also highlights the trends in the industry which
are to be followed by the transport industry in UK. Primary and secondary
research method was used which helped in gaining deeper insights about the
creative and ethical leadership in the transport industry of UK. 360 degree
method was used for doing the self evaluation to check whether the person
is able to become ethical and creative leader or not. This helped in gaining
significant conclusions and optimal outcomes.

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