Leadership and Ethical Behaviors: Strategies for the Workplace

This report examines the critical role of ethical leadership in fostering a positive and productive work environment. It explores strategies for promoting ethical behaviors within teams, including establishing a model code of conduct, providing resources to reinforce ethical practices, and implementing reward systems to recognize and encourage ethical conduct. The report emphasizes the importance of leaders setting a strong ethical example and consistently reinforcing ethical standards. It also highlights the limitations of training and workshops, suggesting that ongoing support and recognition are more effective in shaping employee behavior. By implementing these strategies, leaders can create a workplace culture where ethical conduct is valued and consistently practiced, ultimately contributing to organizational success and employee well-being. The report also includes references to relevant academic research supporting the discussed strategies.

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Procedures to ensure ethical behaviour in the team:
Ethics in workplace is something that organization requires to ensure and ethical behaviour of
employees is an important part of this process. Leaders have to take responsibility that
employees’ behaviour is consistent with ethical standard. Now leaders have various options
to ensure that teams behave ethically (Dhar 2016).
Creating model code of conduct:
Leaders have to set example of ethical behaviour that they want others to follow. For this,
they have to create model code of conduct and even before employees, leaders themselves
have to follow this to inspire employees to behave ethically (Downe, Cowell and Morgan
2016).
Resources for reinforcing ethics:
It is seen that training and workshops are not that effective for ensuring ethical behaviour
within employees, even though they are aimed at providing assistance to help employees to
manage ethical dilemmas to improve their ethical decision (Kalshoven, van Dijk and Boon
2016). Hence, leaders require providing resources that consistently encourage employees to
behave ethically and this is much more effective than training and workshops.
Reward for ethical behaviour:
Rewards and recognition plays an important role in encouraging employees as it makes
employees motivated as company recognizes their activities (Walumbwa, Hartnell and Misati
2017). Another benefit that rewards system provides is that it not only encourages employee
who is being rewarded, but also encourages others to behave ethically (Xu, Loi and Ngo
2016). Hence, leaders should encourage employees for their ethical behaviour by rewarding
them.

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These are some of the important strategies that leaders need to consider to ensure that
employees are behaving ethically concerning ethical code of conduct designed by the leaders.
References:
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Downe, J., Cowell, R. and Morgan, K., 2016. What determines ethical behavior in public
organizations: Is it rules or leadership?. Public Administration Review, 76(6), pp.898-909.
Kalshoven, K., van Dijk, H. and Boon, C., 2016. Why and when does ethical leadership
evoke unethical follower behavior?. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 31(2), pp.500-515.
Walumbwa, F.O., Hartnell, C.A. and Misati, E., 2017. Does ethical leadership enhance group
learning behavior? Examining the mediating influence of group ethical conduct, justice
climate, and peer justice. Journal of Business Research, 72, pp.14-23.
Xu, A.J., Loi, R. and Ngo, H.Y., 2016. Ethical leadership behavior and employee justice
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pp.493-504.