Management and Organization: An Analysis of Ethical Leadership

This report delves into the critical aspects of ethical leadership within management and organizational contexts. It begins by defining ethical leadership and highlighting essential traits such as justice, honesty, respect, and compassion, emphasizing their importance for employee retention and organizational success. The report then examines the leadership styles of Lynne Doughtie and Tim Cook, illustrating how they exemplify these ethical principles through their corporate citizenship and commitment to societal well-being. Furthermore, it explores the power dynamics and decision-making processes within organizations, emphasizing the significance of leader self-confidence and participatory leadership. The report also addresses the ethical responsibilities of leaders, particularly in relation to profitability and employee well-being, using the case of Tim Cook's incentives and the working conditions of Apple suppliers to illustrate the complexities of ethical decision-making. Finally, the report concludes with a discussion of potential solutions to address ethical concerns, advocating for the banning of harmful chemicals and ensuring fair labor practices.

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Question no 1
Ethical leadership is one of the most important traits that every leader must have within
them. The leaders are the face of the organizations and they have to represent the values of the
organization. This is because the new job candidates and the current employees are attracted
towards several policies that makes them stay at the organization and makes it easier for the
organization also for effective employee retention (Fleming and Spicer 2014). It is upon the
leaders on how they will be able to handle the difficult situations that very effectively. The
leaders have to act very ethically in dealing with every minute matter. Some common traits are
embedded in the leadership traits of the leaders. These are justice to the employees; honesty in
dealing with every work; respecting the other people like the stakeholders of the organization;
showing humanity and not considering the employees as resources for profitability; focusing on
building an effective team; proper decision making at the risky situations; encouraging the
initiatives for innovation; leading the workforce by example and not tolerating any violations
regarding to the ethics (Drori, Höllerer and Walgenbach 2013). These are the basic traits that the
ethical leaders must possess.
An ethical leader must not tolerate any violations of the ethical matters that are intrinsic
for the development of the organization. They should be able to motivate the employees by their
talk; A sense of inspiration must be felt by the employees by the way an ethical leader deals with
the situations. The ethical leaders also believe that the employees should grow and flourish in
their professional careers. The primary focus of the leaders should be on building a proper team
that should work together in spite of any diversity among themselves. The leader should be
behaving on the moral aspects and the human aspects as well (Pässilä and Vince 2015). He

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should be able to respect other people whom he meets regarding his work. He should be
compassionate and value the contribution of the employees.
The case studies that have been provided with are very much in line with these leadership
traits. The leaders like Lynne Doughtie and Tim Cook has also shown these aspects within their
corporate citizenship. Lynne Doughtie has been very much vocal about the interconnectivity of
the respecting other people in the workforce and paying justice to their contributions. She has
highlighted time and again that lifelong learning is one of the major aspects in the professional
career and proper education so that it can eradicate the poverty and unemployment (Chowhan,
Pries and Mann 2017). The other issues like the diversity have a special place in KPMG as
Lynne has portrayed. They give special focus on managing diversity in various aspects from the
employees’ perspective. Leader like Tim Cook has showed his efficiency in showing the moral
and humane aspects and serving their duties towards the society. They have introduced the Swift
coding curriculum in the community colleges and focus on growth of the company. They want to
grow more jobs and help the economy to grow as well. These leadership traits have been very
much evident in the workings of Lynne Doughtie and Tim Cook (Kreimeier et al. 2014). It has
also been seen that Apple has requested to stop the use of the harmful chemicals in the making of
their phones and other products. These harmful chemicals are identified as solvent n-hexane and
benzene in their manufacturing process.
Question no 2
According to Kirkpatrick and Locke, several parameters can be attributed to the ethical
leadership. An intensified matter could be extremely important for the success of an organization
(Felin, Lakhani and Tushman 2014). Great leaders like Lynne Doughtie and Tim Cook have also

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been very conscious about the success of their respective organizations like KPMG and Apple.
The power motives are one of the most important traits in this aspect. The power motives are
personalized power motive, socialized power motive, exercising the power over the subordinate
employees, comparing the socialized power motive and personalized power motive in respect to
the emotional maturity, honesty and integrity at the workplace, self-confidence of the successful
leaders and many more. All these traits are very important since the leaders portray what things
are properly needed for the success of the organizations (Westwood and Rhodes 2013).
The leaders must have honesty and integrity within themselves that will be the proof of
how well and organized they are. Leadership in organizations will not be as per the requirements
of the organizational leaders if they do not exercise honest practices within their domain. The
leaders and their followers or the subordinate employees should be sharing a relationship of trust
and faith among themselves. These things are very much important in the course of the success
of the organizations like KPMG and Apple. The creative leadership of the organization seeks
certain parameters like self-confidence of the leaders.
If the leaders themselves are not confident how well they can execute the tasks and assign
the tasks to the persons best suited for that according to their skills (Foster, Mills and
Weatherbee 2014). There are some kinds of leadership styles within the organizations like
autocratic style, democratic style, and others. The decision making process of the leaders have to
be prolific in most of the senses. These traits have to be followed by the leaders so that they can
lead the organizations to success. It is, therefore, important for the leaders to include the
subordinate employees into the decision making process. This is an instance of the participative
leadership. In an organization like KPMG, Lynne Doughtie has portrayed that they have
supported each other in the lifelong learning process that is an important part of the organization

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(Collings 2014). The support has to be there so that the employees can gain the success.
Unemployment has to be an issue that they are dealing with along with a leader like Tim Cook.
They are intending to bridge the skill gap seriously. They are also keen on shifting their focus on
the moral side by collecting funds for the betterment of the society. Tim Cook also thinks that
they have a responsibility towards the nation to grow its economy. They want to contribute to
other countries as well along with contributing to USA.
Question no. 3
It is being said that it is the responsibility of the leaders of whatever happens in the
organization. They may be directly responsible by influencing the incident or they might be
indirectly responsible. However, the leaders sometimes focus only on the profitability of the
organizations (Johansen et al. 2015). If the leaders only focus on the profits, they might indulge
in committing some activities that will be not as per the ethical conditions of the organizations
that should be maintained. If Tim Cook had opted for signing the deal of $89.6 million for 10
years as a part of an incentive relating to the product, it cannot be identified as an ethical thing at
all. These things will have to be treated as very important case since Tim Cook has practiced his
own interest to collect the incentives. However, this case cannot be termed as a severe violation
of the regulations thinking that as the CEO of the company, he thought it to be his duty to focus
on the increased profits in the product line areas (Abernathy 2014). Apple was supposed to bring
out the new iPhone 8 and the iPad so that they could reach the customers with an approach that
they should not worry about the quality of the products.
He had realized that he had built a huge reputation for the Apple brand and noticed that
the S&P index had risen to a whole new level. Tim Cook had eyed for a growth of his business

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in alarge manner so he thought of signing that deal that could work in two ways. Firstly, it could
benefit the organization in a huge way by raising the share prices and secondly, it could be very
much effective in collecting his incentives.
It has been seen also that the conditions that the workers work in are not safe for the
health of the workers for the Apple suppliers. The suppliers are very important stakeholders and
the management of the organization should have a close look at their working ethics (Mládková
2015). It has been reported that the people who work in those conditions tend to suffer from
various diseases like nerve damage, paralysis and cancer. The chemicals such as benzene and n-
hexane are used for the manufacturing of the products of Apple. If I were Tim Cook, I will be
looking at these issues seriously and take into account the problems that the employees would be
facing the troubles. The hazardous situations have to be tackled and I would be taking the
responsibility to ban the harmful chemicals from being used. I would also look to the fact that the
employees should get the proper wages from their employers. There should be fixed working
hours and the employees must be allowed to leave the workplace after the ending of the shift. In
this way probably, the ethical leadership can be exercised into the organizations properly
(Cherkesova et al. 2015).

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