Ethics and Leadership: MBA Student's Ethical and Leadership Approach

This essay delves into the student's personal journey with ethics and leadership, starting with a self-reflection on their identity as a woman, Christian, and MBA graduate with a background in nursing. The student explores the influence of their Christian faith and family values on their understanding of ethics, particularly the importance of altruism and empathy. The essay highlights ethical challenges in the nursing profession, such as the shift towards prioritizing revenue over patient care, and the impact on nurses' motivation. The student aims to practice ethical leadership, motivating subordinates to work ethically and serve as a good human being. The essay references key studies on ethics, leadership styles, and job satisfaction in nursing, emphasizing the need for ethical practices and the importance of personal values in professional life.

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Being ethical is one of the basic criteria of human life. Understanding and explaining the
concept of ethics is very difficult and practicing it in the personal life is very important, therefore
m, in the following essay, I wish to discuss upon how I feel about ethics and what according to
me is the role of ethics in my profession. I am a woman, and a Christian by religion, and had
recently completed my MBA degree. Now, this is believe is a very brief introduction of myself,
and I would like to elaborate upon this. I belong from a complete Christina family, which means,
we are a strong believer, and since my childhood days I have been going to the churches on
Sundays. Now it is important to mention because being a Christian and being a believer has
impacted me and my choices of career in a lot of ways. Sunday church had always been in our
family tradition therefore when I was introduced to this concept, I had developed the
understanding that this is an activity which will prove that I am a good daughter, and a
responsible one, and the responsible daughters must follow the family values and practice the
same. However, as I had continued and regularized my visits to church, I gained the insights of
the religion, and understood the very basic aspect of the same, which is, the practice of humanity.
Christianity tells us to sympathize with the pain felt by an individual and therefore, freeing the
individual from the pain, with care and attention. At the same time, I gained the understanding
that to be a good girl will mean for me to become a good human being, and hence, I decided to
become a nurse in future, and have completed my graduation in the same field. However, while
working I have found that the acts of nursing has become a mere profession, and people have a
lack of understanding regarding the requirements of this particular profession. There are many
unethical practices being made in the profession, which have led me to acquiring a higher
degree, and completing my MBA. Now, since I have completed my MBA, I am aiming to join in
a senior position and practice leadership, through following unethical measures.

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Nursing is a profession where the practices of ethics is very important, and it is ranked to
be the number one ethical profession by the Gallup Poll of Ethical Professions (Keyko, 2014).
The fundamental aspects that drives the acts and the conducts of nursing is the dwindling
Altruism. A recent research has shown that the young nurses who have just graduated lacks the
understanding of the core values that hold the basic aspect or provides the impetus to this
profession. They lack the values related to Altruism, and the aspects of empathy is being eroded
from them as the demands to meet the tasks or the job related requirements are provided with
more importance (Rizi et al., 2013). Considering the structures and the activities of the hospitals
it can be seen that rather than attending the patients with care, and empathy, they are more
interested in expanding the business, expanding their chains across the globe. The basic aim of
the hospitals are now to draw as much revenue as possible, and at the same time, the amount of
salary has become the motivator for the nurses, and not the noble work of serving the human
beings. Certain studies suggest that there is a widening gap between age cohosting on the
importance of the salary, which then determines and indicates that the junior nurses, or the
present generation of nurses will be motivated by the money and the attraction of other jobs and
will leave nursing (Makaroff et al., 2014). Which is one of the noble deeds in the world. The
works suggest that the nurses will be less inclined to choose nursing as an option, and even if
they go for this profession their salary will be the prime reason for them to continue in the sector.
Thus, there is a shift from the ethical altruistic aspects of the profession which had been
involved in the profession, and thus the present generation will lose upon their ethical grounds.
Therefore, my primary aim of completing the MBA degree is to practice an ethical leadership
within the organizational structure, thus motivating my subordinates and making them to work

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ethically. My aim is to motivate the present generation of nurses, while becoming a good human
being in the process.

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References:
Keyko, K. (2014). Work engagement in nursing practice: A relational ethics
perspective. Nursing ethics, 21(8), 879-889.
Makaroff, K. S., Storch, J., Pauly, B., & Newton, L. (2014). Searching for ethical leadership in
nursing. Nursing ethics, 21(6), 642-658.
Rizi, R. M., Azadi, A., Farsani, M. E., Aroufzad, S., & Mirsafaei, R. (2013). Relationship
between leadership styles and job satisfaction among physical education organizations
employees. European Journal of Sports and Exercise Science, 2(1), 7-11.