Three Levels of Ethical Leadership in HRM

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Leadership is like the building block of the sound performance of any organization. It is
the responsibility of the leaders to make sure that the employees are being able to abide by the
ethical code of conduct that has been set by the company. However, the employees will be able
to abide by the rules and regulations only if they see the leaders or the ones who are in the
hierarchies are being able to take care of their responsibilities and also abide by the rules and the
regulations. I have made sure that I am being able to understand the three different levels of
ethical leadership so that I can use the same in my personal and professional life properly and
soundly. The first level of the ethical leadership mainly tries to study and understand the
connection between the personal life of the leaders and how the leaders usually carry on within
their business or carry on their work with the context of their professional lives
Description
The situation happened when I was appointed as the team leader in one of the well known
MNCs. I knew that I had to carry on all my duties in a proper way. I knew that to establish
myself as one of the most ideal leaders in the future, I will have to set an example for all my
teammates. Though several leaders like, Clinton are usually considered to be a failure both in
their personal lives and also in the professional or the career lives. While I started on with my
charge of being a team leader, I used to feel pressure as there was a huge amount of workload
every day. However, at the same time, I was also going through some financial problems at my
home. I consider myself to be responsible for this particular aspect. This is because I had taken
some money from my friend during a huge urgent need. However, later I fought with that friend
and did not want to interact with him any further. Thus I thought that I will lose my control if I
interact with him. Thus I wanted to take revenge for him and I did not give him back the money.
However, this was not right. I was constantly being asked by my parents to give him back the

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money and this is not the right way to carry on any kind of anger. However, this was also
affecting my performance and I was not listening to any doubts about my employees at my
workplace. Several complaints were coming from all my employees.
Second level Description
The Secord level of ethical leadership deals with how a leader carries on his duties. In
other words, the second level deals with the different methods in which the leaders try to look
after the leadership and the management of their teammates. This event happened when I was
working as the management in one of the local MNCs. I realized that there was a kind of
confusion between the employees and their leader. This is mainly because the managers are
taking their own decisions without taking any kinds of views or feedbacks from the employees.
In other words, there is a huge lack of understanding or mutual communication among them.
Thus there were always several communication gaps and people did not want to interact with
anyone. One day there was a strike called by all the employees saying that they need a salary
hike and if their request is left un-heard they will quit. Being the team lead I realized that before
my joining the rest of the members from the management were mainly following the autocratic
leadership. However, this angered the employees as they realized they are not being given any
value or any kind of worth in the organization.

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Third level description
Description
The third level ethical analysis of leaderships mainly was with the connection between
good leadership and sustainable business, In other words, a business can reach up to the desired
successful goals only if the leaders are well aware of their duties and it is carried on properly. I
remember that it was during a very important board meeting at my company. I was the in charge
of the meeting, I was aware of the fact that all the employees must be working as one group to
make the presentation in front of the external foreign delegates. However, I saw that the
employees were not feeling encouraged to work. They were always making some the other
mistakes
Feeling
First level ethical analysis
Feeling
As far as I can remember nothing much was going well in this experience. However, I
recalled that while joining the MNC I was given several training by the manager. During the
induction session, I got to know about the ethical obligations that a leader has to abide by all the
ethical codes of conduct during all instances. Thus I realized that due to my problems, I must not
make my employees suffer. The ethical principle says that I must always take care of the interest
of my teammates and keep my issues aside. Thus the thing that went well was my realization
between what is right and what is wrong.