Ethical Leadership

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Reflective report..........................................................................................................................3
Literature review.........................................................................................................................5
Organization culture....................................................................................................................7
Organizational structure ............................................................................................................9
Leadership strategies ................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Ethical leadership means as the moral principles that governs an individual behaviour in
conducting the activity of business. In other words, it means acting as per the moral principles in
routine life of business and the decision-making. It simply reflects that doing the right things and
working in compliance with the moral principles so that goals could be attained efficiently and
within the time frame. The present report is based on Tesla, an American electric vehicle and
energy based company headquartered in California, US. It operates its business in multiple
production and the assembly plants like vehicle manufacturing facility at the Tesla factory in
Shanghai, China. Furthermore, the study presents a reflection on the understanding of an
individual with respect to different aspects of the ethical leadership. Moreover, it also includes an
in-depth analysis of the organizational structure, culture and the leadership strategies that is been
adopted by the company in running its business.
MAIN BODY
Reflective report
By reviewing the article of the lessons, I observed that values, morals and civility forms
as the foundation for the ethical and the principles' leadership in different types of the
organization. By emphasizing on different types of the approaches in developing an ethical
leadership, I analysed that new leaders in the company have tendency of doing the task in
accordance to the past practices and heralding the new form of the leadership. Such process of
the change impacts the culture of an organization and might lead to loss of employees who does
not conform to change executed (Tanaka, Okamoto and Koide, 2018). Instead, supporting this
type of negative tendencies, paper encourages development of the companies on the basis of past
results. In context of this, I learned that it is the responsibility of the leaders in determining the
good in past and adopting same practices in conduct of their respective duties.
In my opinion, ethical aspects of the leadership is the positive step in inculcating the good
morals in the leaders. Indeed, most of the companies have an objective in making as much as
profit by increasing the productivity and limiting expenses or cost. The essence or importance of
having an ethical leader which understands the significance of morality counted as crucial in
striking the balance between pursuit of the morality and the profits. I reviewed that leaders are

responsible in ensuring that the organizational culture must be structured across the moral values
which are acceptable within the society.
From the lessons or article, I learned that ethical leadership has different aspects that
includes issue regarding ethical theory, decision-making and leadership etc. I could be able
found an opportunity in gaining some practices that is been applied for resolving the ethical
problems that might occur at the workplace. The module also helped me in understanding
theoretical models of leadership like transformational, charismatic etc. which helps the leaders in
dealing with different business scenarios. I also gain deep knowledge regarding the meaning of
the business ethics and the factors that induces or influences the business ethics along with its
importance and effect on the business.
In my view integrating ethics in daily business activities for a leader is very critical
because it helps in establishing personal integrity and enables in rebuilding the trust within the
organization or work environment. Ethical conduct in the workplace motivates culture in making
decisions on the basis of ethics (Markkanen and et.al., 2020). It enhances transparency and the
accountability at the time of undertaking the business decisions. Moreover, I feel that strong
ethical culture helps the leaders in managing the conflicts through making right moves.
Furthermore, I observed that there is a strong relationship between rights of the human and the
business as actions of the company could impact people's enjoyment in terms of their human
rights either in the negative and positive manner. Indeed, the experiences depicts that an
enterprise can infringe the human rights where they are been paying out adequate attention or
ficus to such risk. I gain an insight regarding the adoption of UNGPs that defines the duties
relating to rights of human for the business organizations specifically in MNC's. The history
states that an attempt in formulation of the UN draft rules on the translational companies was
abandoned in late 1980s following by the polarizing discussion over UN norms on the
responsibilities with regard to human rights in transnational corporations and other business
entities. I also observed challenges attached with UNGPs faced by the victims of the companies
related abuses. Resulting, the legislative framework in ensuring the corporate respect for the
human right is still lacking at the member and European state level.
From the module, I depicted that differences derived from the cultural backgrounds could
exert strong influence on the approach to leadership and the leadership styles which the firm
uses. I believed that this could inevitably result to misunderstandings between leaders from the