Responsible Leadership

Running head: RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
Responsible Leadership
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RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
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.

RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
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

RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP
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