An Introduction to Ethical Leadership and Ethics
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Running head: LEADERSHIP AND ETHICSLeadership and EthicsName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:
1LEADERSHIP AND ETHICSIntroduction Ethical leadership defines the leadership style, which is guided by respect forethical values and beliefs towards maintaining the dignity and rights of others (Zhang etal., 2014). They can lead the employees towards organizational success through ethicaland standard set of organizational values and principles. This study will describe asituation, which is linked to my learning experience upon leadership concept. I willdescribe my internship program in an organization of Singapore, where worked as aleader of a small leader. The study will link the situation with my learning experienceabout leadership. This study will describe some of my attitudes, which might predisposewith certain types of leadership behavior. The study will also describe my personalvalues and sense of ethical and unethical decision in leaders. The study will alsoexplain some of my work related preferences. Discussion Leadership defines the practical skills within an individual, which make him/hercapable of leading individual, groups and even entire organization. According toPalanski, et al., (2014), effective leaders are always capable to inspire others in theirorganization. Moreover, leaders are positive and optimistic about the future oforganization. In such situation, such positive attitude of the leaders becomes inspiringfactor for their followers. Just like the leaders, I always remain positive about mypositive. The optimistic thinking inside me leads to towards handling complex situationpositively. Therefore, such positive attitude inside me can facilitate me in being aneffective leader through inspiring others. On the other hand, Brown and Treviño, (2014)opined that effective leaders have high level of emotional intelligence, which makesthem capable of understanding others’ emotion. Moreover, they can understand theinner feelings of their followers towards assessing their hidden capabilities. In thiscontext, I have strong emotional quotient, which makes me capable of understandingother’s feelings and perspectives. Such high level of emotional intelligence would leadme towards being an effective leader in an organization. Moreover, I will be able tounderstand the internal motivational factor of the employees towards successfullyleading them for better production. Zhang et al., (2013) pointed out that effective leaders are always inclined towardsmaintaining integrity in their work. Moreover, they always take leading decision basedon moral and ethical consequences of the decision. In such context, I always maintainethics and adhere to moral perspectives in all my works. Such ethical adherence willbuild my potentiality towards being an effective leader through maintaining ethicalground in leading the followers. On the other hand, Demirtas and Akdogan, (2015)opined that effective leaders always respect their followers and appreciate them for theirefficiencies. It helps the leaders in building collaborative and trustable relationship withfollowers. Likewise, I always respect the people around me, which make me capable ofbuilding trustable relationship with them. Such unique personality within me canpredispose towards with trustable behavior of the leaders. Furthermore, Yukl et al.,(2013) opined that effective leaders have high level of self-regulation power formanaging themselves even in stressful situation. I have also felt strong self-regulationpower in some extent of my life, where I effectively managed myself to deal with difficult
2LEADERSHIP AND ETHICSsituation. In this way, I can better exploit my strength over my weakness towardsmanaging any stressful situation in organization. It will help me in better leading thepeople in stressful situation towards achieving organizational success. Sharif and Scandura, (2014) opined that values are the principles, qualities andstandards within an individual, which leads them towards right direction. Whileconsidering my values, I always remain authentic in all my work, which directs metowards my success in almost every aspect of my life. I am also adventurous and highlyinclined towards performing challenging task. I always take interest in learning newthings through handling difficult situation with adventurous mind. The learning interestwithin me encourage me towards trying innovative work, which needs creativity power.It has always facilitated me in exploring new edge of life towards getting success. Onthe other hand, Jordan et al., (2013) opined that ethics defines the moral principles,which govern and direct people towards differentiating between right and wrongdecision. From my perspective, ethical decision and action always spread greatestamount of good among the people. I think that ethical decision leads people towardsright direction in getting success in their life. It is more like being in accordance with thestandards and rules for rights conduct. However, I faced tough challenges inmaintaining the ethics in the organization during my internship. Moreover, apart frompersonal life, ethical conduct also facilitates in maintaining standard practice inprofessional life. In case of leadership, ethical practice helps the leaders towardsmaintaining fairness with their followers for leading their properly. I have understood that unethical decisions and actions lead people towardswrong decisions. Moreover, unethical leadership actually leads the leaders towardstaking dishonest decision, which creates a distrusting relationship of the leaders withtheir followers (Newman et al., 2014). I think unethical decision in the leadershipenhances the sufferings of the followers, which demoralize them in their workplace.Furthermore, as per my view, ethical leaders foster an ethical commitment both inthemselves as well as their followers. It encourages the followers in sticking to coreorganizational principles. Moral reasoning defines the manner through which leadersmake decision about ethical and unethical actions for solving moral decision. Therefore,I think moral reasoning surely facilitates the leaders in maintaining code of conductwithin their organization though controlling the behavior of followers. I do not have any long-term professional working experience. However, I did myinternship in one of the reputed organizations prior to the course. I was given theopportunity to work as the team leader of a small group. It was a people basedcompany in the service sector. While working in the organization, I came to understandthat execution of moral and ethical values was extremely difficult. Pierro et al., (2017)pointed out that a leader needs to ensure overall team performance optimization overindividual perspective so that cumulative outcome remains unbiased. On the otherhand, Hassan et al., (2013) highlighted that focusing on individual performance helps increating directive approach to guide and nurture employee performance. I found myselfto be a team player over individual achievement as I dealt with overall performanceoutcome over a single candidate. However, in doing this in was not able to gainknowledge of individual team mate issues and reasons for lagging.
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