Organizational Crisis and Ethical Leadership: MBA401 Presentation

This presentation, addressing the MBA401 assessment on People, Culture, and Contemporary Leadership, delves into an organizational crisis, specifically bribery, and its implications. It outlines the likely causes of bribery, such as the absence of morals, financial instability, and ineffective management, as well as the potential consequences, including economic issues, brand damage, and internal conflicts. The presentation then focuses on ethical leadership as a solution, highlighting its advantages like encouraging ethical practices, smooth communication, and value-based problem-solving. It also acknowledges the disadvantages, such as potential social inappropriateness and ethical dilemmas. Finally, it recommends prioritizing employee perspectives, maintaining open communication, promoting ethical codes, investing in human resources, and providing ethical encouragement to foster a positive work culture and mitigate the crisis. The presentation references key academic sources to support its arguments.

People, Culture and
Contemporary Leadership
Presented by-

The organizational crisis and its
causes: Bribery
 Absence of morals
 Absence of financial stability in organization
 Absence of impactful management the organization
 Absence of efficient leadership (Harwati 2013 )

Potential consequences of the crisis:
Bribery
 Economic growth may face issues of the organization
 Business climate get reduced
 Potential and efficiency damage
 the brand image may get influenced
 Conflicts internal to organization (Giannakis and
Papadopoulos 2016)

Advantages of the ethical leadership style
in solving bribery and why it is chosen
 Ethical practices are encouraged
 Quicker at thing getting done
 Smooth communication
 Issues are solved from a value based approach, hence
ethical leadership style is the best option for solving the
crisis of Bribery in organisations (Ferrell and Fraedrich
2015)

Disadvantages of ethical leadership
style in solving bribery
 Not necessary socially
 Mental stress along with physical stress
 Ethical dilemmas
 May provide opposite and unexpected results (Johnson
2018)

Recommendation
 Employee’s perspective should be given importance
 Maintenance of regular communication with the employees
 Constant encouragement of ethical code to team members
and employees
 Through investing in human resources a positive work
culture needs to be provided
 Ethical encouragement
(Zamaletdinovet al. 2016)

References:
Ferrell, O.C. and Fraedrich, J., 2015. Business ethics: Ethical decision
making & cases. Nelson Education.
Giannakis, M. and Papadopoulos, T., 2016. Supply chain sustainability: A
risk management approach. International Journal of Production
Economics, 171, pp.455-470.
Harwati, L., 2013. Crisis management: Determining specific strategies
and leadership style for effective outcomes. Asian journal of
management sciences and education, 2(2).
Johnson, C.E., 2018. Organizational ethics: A practical approach. Sage
Publications.
Zamaletdinov, R.R., Yudina, N.P., Lavrentyeva, E.I., Savva, L.I. and
Pugacheva, N.B., 2016. Practical Recommendations on the Improvement
of the Effectiveness of Anti-corruption Policy in Universities. International
Review of Management and Marketing, 6(2), pp.390-396.

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