Ethical Challenges in Leadership And Management

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Ethical Challenges in Leadership

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1) Identify the seven signs that an organization is in danger of ethical collapse.
Marianne Jennings identified seven signs that indicate whether an organization is
in ethical danger or not (Johnson, 2019).
Sign 1: Pressure to achieve numbers
The first sign of ethical danger is meeting the targets or quantifiable goals. As
organization manipulate numbers such as overstate sales, showed fewer expenses and bad
loans in order to strengthen its position in the market
Sign 2: Silence and Fear
A culture of silence and fear can easily lead to ethical problems. For instance; if people
feel any misbehavior, the main decision-makers might be unsympathetic about their
concerns (Johnson, 2019). With that employees troubled to speak out their views and due
to that fear that they will be fired or demoted
Sign 3: Young ‘uns, and a bigger than life CEO
Some CEOs are icons who are adored by the media and the community and in order to be
successful, these CEOs surround themselves by young and loyal supporters but
inexperienced. Due to that, they follow leader unethical decisions if an enthusiastic and
dynamic CEO is leading them.
Sign 4: A weak board
A weak board also leads to ethical risk as they might have inexperienced members,
family members and friends of the CEO. All this leads to failure of meetings and
unethical behavior (Johnson, 2019).

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Sign 5: Conflicts of Interest
This arises when an individual plays the role of two people at the same time and both
roles differ from each other. For instance, the CEO has to lead an organization and at the
same time work for their interests. This can lead to unethical decisions and increase
ethical risk.
Sign 6: Innovation like no other
Innovation leads to pride in the organization and due to that, they feel above the law. The
quicker the organization innovate more chances of unethical behavior.
Sign 7: Goodness in some areas Atones for Evil in others
Organizations use social causes and charities for hiding their unethical behavior and to
justify their wrongdoing.
2) Identify three ideas/leadership principles from the course that you believe will
contribute the most to your personal ethical development. Describe actual situations
in which you will use them, and why you believe them to be of value.
Leaders are considered as ethical when they possess traits such as justice,
empathy, value-driven decision-making ability, integrity and team-building spirit
(Johnson, & Hackman, 2018). The three ideas that I think will be helpful in ethical
development are aligning values, self-awareness and acting with courage and being
responsible. The idea of aligning values helps in when I will work in an organization at
that time I need to align my values with the organizational culture and value that will help
me to grow in the near future. On the other side, the idea of self-awareness is valuable as