Theories of Leadership and Organizational Ethics: An Overview

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Theories of leadership
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Leadership
Leadership
Leadership plays a vital task in generating worth, improvement and establishing approaches of
administration and enactment of information. Also, leadership tends to impacts on the function
of surrounding issues of how collaboration happens between employees in the know-how
exchange, in the designation of intra and inter-organization duties as well as competence.
Additionally, leadership is extensively seen as having a significant role in nurturing ethical
conduct in an institute (Northouse,2018). There exist various theories and leadership classes
which are grounded on some conventions about how front-runners ought to act and what is their
part within the corporate. Based on this context, the subject on the establishment's governance
style or leadership design embraced by the leader some actions and behaviors are prompted that
either impact positively or negatively to the organization.
Authentic leadership
Numerous high-profile corporate scandals have initiated to the rise of the conception of
legitimate governance. According to Northouse, (2018) authentic leaders ought to act following
low individual standards and principles to establish reliability and win respect and trust of fans.
Authentic leadership is thus considered as the replication of the ethics and principles of both the
leader and organization. Also, a valid application of authentic leadership exclusively depends on
the ethics and benefits of the leader.
Additionally, this type of leadership should not be falsified and ought to be clear since a follower
will detect via any misrepresentation and thus lose conviction and admiration for the leader. The

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focus of authentic leadership is a reinforcement of followers rather than an emphasis on failures
and shortcomings an admirer provides to the leader and the corporation as a whole.
According to Eisenbeiss, Silken, and Felix (2014) authentic leadership is defined as a procedure
which encompasses from both positive mental abilities and a highly developed corporate setting,
that end in both greater self-discovery and self-controlled positive actions on the part of leaders
and associates, nurturing positive self-development.
Components of authentic leadership
According to Allio (2012), authentic leadership encompasses four significant elements; self-
awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, and internalized moral perspective.
Self-awareness entails consideration of one's abilities such as strengths and weaknesses and the
multi-faceted nature of self.
Balanced processing refers to a leader objectively investigating all applicable material before
making any judgment that includes cheering the rest to inquiry and test individual's principles
Relational transparency entails being true to one's beliefs and articulating this to other people.
Indeed it consists of the open partaking of evidence about an individual's thought and moods.
Internalized moral perspective recalls to self-regulation which is established on internalized
ethical standards in contrast to those imposed by an organization. In most instances, they are
conveyed in ethical resolution making and moral behavior.
Formerly, the authentic leadership was known as a procedure which endorses constructive
emotional capabilities and a highly advanced administrative framework, leading in greater self-

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awareness, self-regulation and positive behavior by frontrunners and acquaintances. However
previously the authentic leadership is conceptualized as a leader's performance design that
maintains and encourages positive psychological abilities and a favorable moral environment, to
stimulate greater self-consciousness, an adopted ethical perception, balanced information
processing and relational transparency in the workstation (Bedi, Alpaslan,& Green,2016). In the
same way, it significant to accentuate that authentic leadership goes above the genuineness of the
leader, covering the genuine relationship with fans and other shareholders. Indeed, the relations
are characterized by orientation, clearness, openness, trust, and emphasis on a follower's
development.
The above relations characteristics derived from the authentic leadership practice implies two
significant features. First is the ultimate task of the genuine leader in the consistency of actions
and inspiration over followers toward active, ethical and accountable conduct. Consequently, it
the significance of an authentic leader in establishing a conducive surrounding grounded on
conviction and honesty that supports the procedures of intellectual qualities. Authenticity
leadership provides positive results via different possibilities due to the establishment of trust
and respect between follower and leader. Consequently, this yields a positive exhibition which
acts in the manner of leadership, followers' sense of enablement to make a principled decision as
well formation of self-competency experienced within each person in the association.
Notably authentic leadership theory application is not only beneficial to leaders but corporate as
a whole due to its form of apparent nature. Followers hold a sensation of trust and impartiality,
which permits the supporter to offer contribution and response to the leader. The characteristic of
authentic leadership has a positive impact in establishing an organizational culture grounded in
principled ideals, producing a positive corporate setting founded on conviction and contribution.