Leadership and Ethical Decision Making: A Detailed Report

This report examines leadership and ethical decision-making, focusing on a student's personal leadership success story within a restaurant setting. It analyzes the application of transformational leadership style to motivate employees, improve organizational awareness, and enhance service quality. The report also addresses a UWEAR-PALE DENIM merger scenario, providing recommendations on how to manage cultural integration and ensure effective communication during the change process. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of leadership in fostering a positive work environment and achieving organizational goals. The report highlights the use of transformational leadership to inspire workers, and the importance of culture in a merger to achieve the desired results. It emphasizes the importance of clear communication and cultural integration during a merger for business success.

Running Head: LEADERSHIP AND ETHICAL DECISION MAKING
LEADERSHIP AND ETHICAL DECISION MAKING

Table of content
Introduction....................................................................................................................................2
My own success story as a leader.................................................................................................2
Leadership styles helped me to be successful..............................................................................3
Recommendations for the merger in the UWEAR-PALE DENIM scenario...........................3
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................4
Bibliography...................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
This study discusses my own successful leadership story as a leader. It also illustrates the
leadership style that motivates me to become a successful leader of the restaurant. It also
includes the suggestion regarding the merger in the UWEAR-PALE DENIM scenario. It will
discuss that as a leader how I will lead the merger in the UWEAR-PALE DENIM.
My own success story as a leader
As a leader of a local restaurant, I have noticed that there is a lack of awareness about the
environment of the restaurant within the employees. The employees are not aware of the
Strategy, organizational problem, and aims of the restaurant. As per my analysis, I have found
that the employees are not aware of the goals and objectives. The workers of the restaurant are
found effortless because they are not motivated towards their work. The employees have
different skills and potential but they are not giving their best to the restaurant in order to achieve
the goal because there is a lack of awareness about the existing environment of the business and
there is a lack of motivation within the employees. They are not even concerned for the
consumers in order to provide great services.
I have taken certain actions in order to resolve the issues. I have set a clear vision by
influencing the workers to understand the future vision of the restaurant and a better structure of
the restaurant (Smedley, 2017). In order to increase awareness, motivation, and skill, the
organization has organized many training programs which include different methods for serving
food to the consumers. In order to motivate them towards the work, I also find out the needs of
the employees and also met such needs which considered a sweet treat of their work. I kept

everything in an organized form throughout the operations. As a leader, I have guided have all
the workers throughout the program which includes supporting, interacting, encouraging and
motivating. The functions of the manager help me to manage all the process which increases
overall profit of the restaurant (Anisman Razin, Kark, & Ashforth, 2017). This also helps me to
create awareness within the employees so that they can do their best to achieve a particular goal.
Leadership styles helped me to be successful
Transformational leadership style is a style in which a leader motivates, inspires and
boosts the employees in order to create an aim that will enable the restaurant to grow towards the
growth (Nguyen, Mia, Winata, & Chong, 2017). This leadership style has helped me to become a
successful leader. This style of leadership helps me to motivate and boost the employees for the
development of the restaurant by fulfilling their personal desires. It also encourages an ethical
work environment by setting a clear vision and aim of the restaurant to the employees. Being a
transformational leader I use to inspire the workers through effective communication towards the
way of success. This style also helped me to lead the team of the restaurant for the overall
development of the restaurant. This leadership style also enables the employee to work in a
systematic way (Lanaj, Johnson, & Lee, 2016).
Recommendations for the merger in the UWEAR-PALE DENIM scenario
As a leader, I will make the culture an important component for change management.
During merging the main task is to provide communication (Krapfl, Jon, & Blina Kruja, 2015). I
will consider the strengths and weaknesses of the culture. I will focus on culture in order to
integrate the companies because when left to itself culture will weaken the value creation
(Sinclair & Keller, 2017). Efforts to forwarding culture should depend on the identification that

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culture is both powerful and inherent and the employees have to change their cultural acceptance
in order to adopt new cultural importance and that will affect the value of the business. By
combining the culture to the creation of value and by analyzing and developing the behavior of
an individual when required, culture can easily be made as an effective and efficient tool for
achieving the goal of merging both UWEAR and PALEDENIM.
Conclusion
The employees are not aware of the Strategy, organizational problem, and aims of the
restaurant. As per my analysis, I have found that the employees are not aware of the goals and
objectives and in order to resolve such issues as a leader of a local restaurant, I have applied
transformational leadership style that helped me to inspire the workers through effective
communication towards the way of success. It has been concluded in the above study that by
combining the culture to the creation of value, culture can easily make as an effective and
efficient tool for achieving the goal of merging both UWEAR and PALEDENIM.
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