Ethical Leadership | Various Dimensions of Leaders

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

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Various dimensions of ethical and unethical behaviours of leaders
The ethical behaviour of the leaders is significant in attaining organizational long-term goals.
The dimensions of ethical leadership govern a person’s behaviour with esteem to what is
right or wrong. Unethical leadership is influenced by the increasing intricacy of the business,
increasing the haste of information flow and increased burden from the top management
concerning employee performance. There are various dimensions of ethical behaviour of the
leaders. Most notably transactional and transformational leadership are deliberated to be the
most important dimensions. The transactional leadership more authoritative, untrustworthy,
self-centred and manipulative (Walumbwa, Hartnell and Misati, 2017). The transformational
leadership have various ethical behaviours like robust focus for self and others, moral
character and ethical values. On the other hand, dimensions of unethical behaviour of the
leaders are autocratic approach and participative approach. In the autocratic approach, the
managers own total authority and more frequently than not. Such managers enforce their will
upon personnel without any deliberation of the employee’s ideas. The participative approach
values to the inputs of team members and higher-level authority. In this dimension, people
who are introverts do not find ease to convey their ideas and may feel left out. Therefore,
their ideas do not get much space and consideration.
Dimensions Ethical behaviour Unethical behaviour
Power to influence
decision
The ethical leaders have the
power to stimulate the
decision by appropriately
guiding employees as they
work for the betterment of
the organisation.
The unethical leaders do not
have the power to influence
the decision (Bedi, Alpaslan
and Green, 2016).
Criticism by colleagues
and subordinates
The ethical leaders respond
to the criticism in the
appropriate manner and take
it for further improvement.
The unethical leaders
respond to the criticism of
the colleagues in an
undesirable manner and are
revealed in the activities
conducted by them.
Risk taking through the The ethical leaders are The unethical leaders are