Responsible Leadership

This report discusses responsible leadership skills and the complexities associated with the business environment, stakeholders, and culture in the organization.

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Executive Summary
This particular report takes into account various discussions associated with interviews that
were taken for on behalf of a leader in the organization on his views on responsible
leadership skills. Utilizing those reviews on contemporary theories on responsible leadership,
analysis of the interviews have been undertaken in order to identify various complexities
associated with business environment, various relationships associated with stakeholders as
well as culture in the organization.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction.....................................................................................................................5
2.0 Interview overview..........................................................................................................5
3.1 Five Dimensions that are associated with responsible leadership...................................6
3.4 Various frames associated with Responsible Leadership................................................8
4.0 Conclusion............................................................................................................................8
4.1 Ability to develop ethical judgements against various norms as well as regulations......8
4.2 Ability towards spreading moral courage and aspiration towards bringing positive
changes in the business organization.....................................................................................9
4.3 Effective communication with various stakeholders or clients and active participation
towards making decisions in order to solve problems...........................................................9
4.4 Leaders take a hold of various accountable actions in the associated organization in
relation to various professional roles...................................................................................10
4.5 Affirmation of ultimate power within the organization................................................10
5.0 Recommendations..............................................................................................................11
6.0 Appendices.........................................................................................................................11
7.0 Reference List....................................................................................................................12

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1.0 Introduction
An interview was conducted with one of the most famous business leaders today Brian
Hartzer who is the managing director as well as CEO of company Westpac, a banking as well
as financial service provider in Australia. He has been holding the position of Chief
Executive at Westpac Retail as well as Business Banking in the year of 2012 (Pearce,
Wassenaar, & Manz, 2014). The interview was conducted by taking into account the views of
him as a responsible leader. This particular discussion will take into account various literature
reviews on contemporary theories associated with responsible leadership and it throws light
up on the results of those interviews.
2.0 Interview overview
An interview was conducted with Brian Hartzer for 30 minutes and various questions were
asked to him regarding his views on responsible leadership. Responsible leadership is all
about formation of business decisions that would involve various interests of most of the
stakeholders, suppliers, various employees as well as clients, the future generations as well as
about environmental aspects. Brian said a leader faces a number of challenges and various
changes in the economic environment effect the operation of the organization (Miska, Hilbe,
& Mayer, 2014). According to him, a responsible leader is someone who takes care of all the
potentials of his or her team members and also play an important position in motivating them
so that they work hard in reaching the goals as well as objectives.
He informed about the fact that he always exercise the habit of giving necessary feedback to
his team members regarding their performance and receive feedback on his leadership skills.
The toughest job on his part is to direct all members in the organization so that they work
hard and cherish equal goal of achieving the success in an organization (Dugan et al., 2014).
On the other hand effective communication skills is another quality that a successful leader

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always possess in order to enhance cross- culture communication. A leader is always fosters
the ideologies associated with an input in the environment and during that point of view
validation of various ideas act as best form of route.
3.0 Analysis of interview
3.1 Five Dimensions that are associated with responsible leadership
Since the world is undergoing through rapid changes, a new form of style of leadership
usually emphasizes on impacts up on the society and it requires commitment for the
achievement of betterment in the organization (Hibbert & Cunliffe, 2015). Leaders need to be
aware of the term “Corporate Social Responsibility” in management of business organization.
There are five aspects on which leaders form the responsibility towards organization by
considering all the aspects of team as well as the organization at large:
 Developing Awareness
 Setting vision for achievement of goals
 Fostering imagination to render good quality services
 Responsibilities undertaken by the leader
 Necessary actions that are being performed
3.2 Function between Individual, Collective as well as Organization
This particular style of leadership basically acts as a function between individual leaders that
is “Me”, organizations that are responsible that is “We” as well as various responsibilities of
a business that take into account interests of regulators, consumers, competitors that is “Us”.
This also act towards responsibilities in order to legitimate various theories associated with
leadership in the field of business (Lawton & Páez, 2015). Progress towards various aspects
of responsible leadership mostly engage in commerce as well as trade activities in the
business organization that are constrained as well as limited.

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Representation of structure of Responsible Leadership
(Source: Maak, Pless & Voegtlin, 2016)
Various companies like IBM or General Electric usually focus on strategies towards
Responsible Leadership. It is the responsibility as well as collective capacity of team leader
to instill various processes of innovation in the business and this will have a great impact up
on the stakeholders as well as customers. The various associations in the business
organization mostly serve a purpose of charity and they render towards concepts associated
with citizenship at corporate level.
3.3 Adaptive processes undertaken due to Responsible Leadership
Vectors towards responsible leadership help in solving various dynamic structures at complex
level and on effective interaction, it helps to create a good operational field that would look
after changes in structure as well as behavioural patterns in the organization. Various patterns
as a result of non-linear interactions at various systems at their level of complexity that acts a
relationship between equilibrium as well as randomness. It is the sole responsibility on part of

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a leader to greatly depend on various aspects in business as well as society from the aspects
of economic, ecological, moral spheres as socio-political levels.
3.4 Various frames associated with Responsible Leadership
From the perspective of traditional logic abilities, profits that are gained as a result of
business to business interactions, various responsibilities as well as actions associated with
accountability is usually owned by mostly financial shareholders. However leaders today
mostly focus on self- interests of organizational leaders and responsibilities mainly deal with
various stakeholders who are the sources of profit for the Company. Due to logic
opportunities at contemporary level, leaders as well as various stakeholders generally operate
over hinges to build effective relationships with that of stakeholders. In this light, companies
will have an account of managing various responsibilities in the footprint of the society. In
this particular context, leaders take the opportunity to embrace various aspects associated
with CSR and they head towards creating values at long- term level. There are variety of
choices that are mostly associated with maximizing standards of wealth at inclusive level in
the society. Various number associated with Multinational Corporations (MNCs) doubled the
operations at foreign cities in terms of operations as well as affiliations. These number of
corporations form 23% of that of GDP level, it act as number 51 among top 100 companies
(Klettner, Clarke & Boersma, 2014).
4.0 Conclusion
4.1 Ability to develop ethical judgements against various norms as well as regulations
Therefore from the above discussion, it can be understood that a leader will develop
judgements in order to build self-awareness, independence as well as an act of conscience in
the organization that would act as important form in undertaking necessary decisions in
forming ethical judgements. He is the person who is basically in charge of growth in various

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sectors inside the organization and also ensure the fact that his judgemental decisions actually
able to meet the varying expectations of customers, stakeholders or employees. When
responsibilities can easily permeate through the Company it helps to underpin as well as take
influential actions in improving the qualities associated with business.
4.2 Ability towards spreading moral courage and aspiration towards bringing positive
changes in the business organization
Moral courage is defined by something that mainly portrays various expressions associated
with behaviour that would render authentic approach towards stopping activities related to
disapproval, discomfort as well as rejection. Leaders often find a good opportunity towards
developing authentication before the facet of disapproval. Sometimes good leadership aspects
often poses various challenges and one should adopt a positive attitude at optimum level in
order to bring necessary positive changes in the society. Leadership as well as ethical values
in combination may pose necessary obligations and this greatly impact up on the intentions in
an organization. Good leaders usually gather past experiences and they involve various
moderate relations that would help to bring a dynamic process in the environment (Frisch &
Huppenbauer, 2014). In order to develop moral courage as well as spreading of aspirations, a
leader along with his team members develop an honest, objective- oriented conversations as
well as respectful attitude towards the process of business. When a person encourages various
form of communication processes through honest thinking processes or working through
involvement of a particular technique towards work process help to create a consolidated
foundation towards development of leadership.
4.3 Effective communication with various stakeholders or clients and active
participation towards making decisions in order to solve problems
Management of various forms of communication is the mind-set of most of the individuals.
Process towards planning of communication usually focus on different types of information

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services that are required to be delivered, process of receiving, formatting of communication
as well as setting of time for release as well as distribution. It is the responsibility on part of a
project manager to give their quality time towards improving processes of communication
and the most important responsibility of a good leader is to properly communicate with
employees or stakeholders so that proper decisions can be formed. This is basically an
analysis on requirements towards communication. This kind of technique towards effective
communication actually helps a person to go through various forms of reports, various
databases available in online and information collected through verbal communication help to
build technologies that would generate productive communication standards (Frisch &
Huppenbauer, 2014). Through synchronous forms of communication that is mostly through
live meetings or conference calling, various parties shall take an active part in building
process leaders form collaboration with companies who want to build partnership with the
respective organization and enable project teams to work accordingly.
4.4 Leaders take a hold of various accountable actions in the associated organization in
relation to various professional roles
Leadership helps to define culture in the organization and therefore it is necessary to spread
culture associated with accountability. It is important on part of individuals to modify
behaviours and accept ownership values in order to foster various commitment in the actions.
If a leader is accountable due to multiple successes as well as failures in the organization then
depending up on his actions, it will have a positive or a negative impact up on the
organization. It helps a person to take into actions associated with success as well as failure
present in the organization.
4.5 Affirmation of ultimate power within the organization
There are various business activities that can be able to bridge the gap associated with
credibility in the organization. Organizations associated with instruments associated with

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problem solving instruments, socio- technical features and the leaders possessing these
abilities can exercise ultimate power in the organization. He may solely responsible for taking
part in decision making and he may take into account various factors while associating with
the organization. Various sort of executives also have an effect on the organization.
5.0 Recommendations
It can be recommended that leaders face a number of challenges in the perspective of
responsibilities of various organizations. Therefore it can be recommended to the leaders that
they must emphasize on the fundamental ideas as well as knowledge of people before
allocating particular tasks to those respective individuals. It is necessary that leaders must
work hard in taking the responsibility of all the team members and therefore it is the prime
responsibility of members to cooperate with each other according to the standards of
guidance. Necessary precautionary measures have to be taken by responsible leaders so that
they can take their own decisive actions and this would help in progress of the organization as
well as the society at large.

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6.0 Appendices
Interview Questionnaire:

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7.0 Reference List
Pearce, C. L., Wassenaar, C. L., & Manz, C. C. (2014). Is shared leadership the key to
responsible leadership?. Academy of Management Perspectives, 28(3), 275-288.
Miska, C., Hilbe, C., & Mayer, S. (2014). Reconciling different views on responsible
leadership: A rationality-based approach. Journal of Business Ethics, 125(2), 349-
360.
Maak, T., Pless, N. M., & Voegtlin, C. (2016). Business statesman or shareholder advocate?
CEO responsible leadership styles and the micro‐foundations of political CSR.
Journal of Management Studies, 53(3), 463-493.
Dugan, J. P., Bohle, C. W., Woelker, L. R., & Cooney, M. A. (2014). The role of social
perspective-taking in developing students’ leadership capacities. Journal of Student
Affairs Research and Practice, 51(1), 1-15.
Lawton, A., & Páez, I. (2015). Developing a framework for ethical leadership. Journal of
Business Ethics, 130(3), 639-649.
Hibbert, P., & Cunliffe, A. (2015). Responsible management: Engaging moral reflexive
practice through threshold concepts. Journal of business ethics, 127(1), 177-188.

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Klettner, A., Clarke, T., & Boersma, M. (2014). The governance of corporate sustainability:
Empirical insights into the development, leadership and implementation of
responsible business strategy. Journal of Business Ethics, 122(1), 145-165.
Frisch, C., & Huppenbauer, M. (2014). New insights into ethical leadership: A qualitative
investigation of the experiences of executive ethical leaders. Journal of Business
Ethics, 123(1), 23-43.