Leadership: Ethical and Unethical Leaders and Their Impact Report

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of ethical leadership, juxtaposing it with its unethical counterpart to provide a comprehensive understanding of their respective impacts on organizational dynamics and performance. The report explores the significance of ethical decision-making in contemporary business environments, highlighting how it fosters employee motivation, enhances competitiveness, and navigates the complexities of globalized markets. It also examines diverse leadership styles, assessing their influence on workplace culture and overall productivity. The report further analyzes the implications of unethical leadership, such as miscommunication and conflicts of interest. By examining these key aspects, the report aims to provide a nuanced perspective on the critical role of ethical leadership in achieving sustainable organizational success. The report includes references to relevant academic journals and books to support the claims.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
In every form of organization the role of leader is considered as a significant aspect. This
is because, leader is an individual who inspires, motivates, influence and encourage the followers
to follow them back in regard of accomplishing the pre- determined goal or objective in an
improved manner. Moreover, an effective leadership improves the working culture of
organization and also the overall performance of manpower that lead them to place their brand in
a competent position among competitors in an amended way. On the other hand, ineffective
leadership may impose several difficulties within business functions like miscommunication,
misconception, conflict of interest, ambiguities that may reduce the productivity of company. In
addition to this, one of the another major concern that impact every leader performance is being
ethical (Constandt, De Waegeneer and Willem, 2018). This is because in current marketplace, it
is highly challenging for leaders to deal with dynamic nature of customer demand and industry
competition as well as to acquire best position inside competitive industry in a stipulated time
limit without any hindrances. However, for surviving inside current day globalized and
competitive industry, ethical decisions and leadership support individual to attain the same and
as well as drive them to render increased level of motivation among employees towards working
culture. Moreover, ethical leadership also enable leader to grab all available opportunity in order
to gain cutting edge competitive advantage in an innovative or productive style among rivalries.
In this present study, it provides the better understanding about ethical and unethical leader and
also the identification of various leadership style for improving productivity ratio in an effective
mode.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Constandt, B., De Waegeneer, E. and Willem, A., 2018. Coach ethical leadership in soccer
clubs: An analysis of its influence on ethical behavior. Journal of Sport Management.
32(3). pp.185-198.
Egorov, M and et.al., 2019. It’sa Match: Moralization and the Effects of Moral Foundations
Congruence on Ethical and Unethical Leadership Perception. Journal of Business Ethics.
pp.1-17.
Hoch, J. E and et.al., 2018. Do ethical, authentic, and servant leadership explain variance above
and beyond transformational leadership? A meta-analysis. Journal of Management. 44(2).
pp.501-529.
Kimura, T. and Nishikawa, M., 2018. Ethical leadership and its cultural and institutional context:
An empirical study in Japan. Journal of Business Ethics. 151(3). pp.707-724.
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