Ethical Dilemmas in Leadership: Challenges and Strategies

ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN LEADERSHIP
In this complex and challenging corporate world, it is held that ethical dilemmas are daily
faced by leaders and they struggle to consider that what is right and what is wrong while decision
making. Leaders attempt to bring a change, which means their final decision will impact their
followers, so majority of their decision have an ethical element; even if it is a minor one. In
addition, the ethical dilemmas of the followers are often accelerated to the leader to make
decision. Leaders of companies in current times are needed to make better decisions regarding
the gray areas, these are which are included under laws and regulates, but these gray area come
generally in terms of ethics, and ethical standards of what is assessed as right or wrong. At the
same time, the leaders are required to make decisions and plan strategies that can create a
competitive edge. Similarly, these ethical dilemmas showcase a problem which contemporary
time leaders is needed to mitigate. In general, the dilemmas are not based on right against right,
but the right against right choices.
According to the article of Ehrich and co-authors (2015), there were presence of core five
findings. Firstly, the principle implemented data to supervise and inform their practices and
communication with others. Secondly, while ethics was a core consideration in which manner
principles result practising in an ethical manner was determined as challenging and difficult in
the present era. Third, at last ethical structure evidenced to be reliable for understanding practices
of principles. Thus, all of the principles stated to the dilemmas they experienced as a
consequence competing preferences and all implemented a range of strategies to address with
ethical dilemmas.
In the article of Meeting the ethical challenges of leadership, it is held that unethical
leaders can cast shadows if they mistreat power, hoard privileges, misuse information, act in an
inconsistent manner, abuse or deceive loyalties and do not succeed in conducting their
responsibilities (Johnson, 2017). These are main ethical challenges, and these shadows can pose
conflicts among leaders.
Ethical dilemma is the most common problem faced by leaders from traditional times in
business practices. In business, over anywhere else, business experience decisions which are