Leadership and Ethics

Leadership and Ethics

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Leadership is an art for guiding as well as leading other people through convincing power,
skills for motivating, etc. This aspect plays vital role in managing organizational tasks in an
effective manner. Leadership is one of the most significant contributing factors in relevance
with organizational sustained growth and development (Arthur, 2015). Leadership plays
significant role in every aspect and it is essential for leaders to adopt appropriate skills and
attributes so that requirements of organization could be fulfilled as per the external market
conditions. Leaders are required to be flexible enough so that they could sustain along with
leading group of individuals in dynamic business environment. Beliefs, values, characters,
and ethics are pillars of leadership and these pillars reflect the true essence of leadership. A
person with these attributes could become a good as well as effective leader which could
lead his teammates towards attainment of organizational desired goals and objectives.
Major challenge for every organization is to manage and leads its people in one direction
through which sustainable growth and objectives could be attained. Along with this, it is
expected from every leader that they will demonstrate high standards of ethics, beliefs, and
values and show a positive character in their actions so that they could lead the assigned
team in an effective manner along with generating positive outcomes (Beck & Cowan,
2014).
While considering the aspect of leadership, it has been evaluated that a person with
effective communication skills, bright vision and mission, intelligence, learning and
dynamic nature is said to be a good and effective leader. Although, these qualities do not
affect functionalities of a leader but with these attributes, leader is known as trustworthy,
effective in terms of accomplishment of tasks and building trust amongst the teammates
(Boaks & Levine, 2015). As per my opinion, it is necessary for a leader to adopt these
qualities and attributes along with the good character in order to portray a reliable image
amongst the teammates in relation with winning trust, faith, respect and love from the
teammates and followers. Character of a leader is an essential element and it helps the
organization to lead the whole team in an effective manner along with the accomplishment
of desire goals and objectives of a leader. Good leadership styles reflect with great values
such as integrity, compassion, responsibility, and forgiveness. In consideration to this, it

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has been analysed that leader’s good character could be identified with these attributes as
well by analysing his personal values (Cashman, 2017).
I could relate my leadership style with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon Inc. He is a charismatic
leader and constantly changes his style of leadership in order to meet the current
organizational needs. With regards to this, organization could easily match up with the
current business’ requirements, changing customer’s demands, tastes and preferences
(Choi, 2015). I am holding the position of branch manager of a multinational corporation
and its operations are expanded mainly in Asia, some parts of Europe and Australia. I am
acting as a branch manager at one of the fastest growing nations i.e. in China. In relation
with this, I try to develop and maintain coordination amongst the teammates by organising
team activities, interactive sessions and by other similar activities in regular intervals. This
helps the teammates to coordinate with each other through which tasks could be managed
in an effective manner along with gaining positive outcomes. Being a charismatic leader, I
always try to bring creative and innovative ideas into workplace so that operations could
be accomplished. Along with this, I have also promoted my teammates and other
employees all necessary resources for thinking out of the box. This helps the organization
to gain all possible ideas for enhancing organizational performance as well as for facing all
obstacles and issues of the organization. Apart from this, my leadership style also matches
with the transformational leadership style as I always try to find out creative as well as
unique ways for attending clients’ queries (Ciulla, 2014).
It has been observed by me that born leaders are more effective in comparison to the
created leaders. Although, both require appropriate training and development sessions to
enhance their skills to match up with the organizational as well as marketing requirements,
but born leaders are quite more effective, understanding and coordinating in comparison
to the created leaders (Daft, 2014). Following are major characteristics of a strong leader:
 Self-Discipline: This is the action of analysing what is right at every moment of
execution irrespective of the ramifications. Self-discipline is one of the major aspects
in every leader’s life because it helps the leader as well as his teammates to execute