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Discussion1
Ethical leadership is a leadership whereby people demonstrate conduct for the common good that is appropriate and acceptable in life. An ethical leader always behaves with respect and fairness for others. They listen to others attentively, are compassionate and consider opposing viewpoints fairly and value the contribution of other people fairly. Indeed, ethical leadership has a huge impact on the organizational culture. Having an organizational culture that promotes ethical conduct and personal responsibility, there should be ethical leaders who serve as role models for others. They guide others in behaving in a way that if just and respectable. As a result, they will be able to follow the steps of the leader, and thus people will know how to behave and work with each other in the workplace (Bratton, 2020).
The first dimension of ethical leadership is character and integrity that gives a strong foundation for the direct traits that guide the leaders decisions, beliefs, and values. The second dimension is ethical awareness that involves the communication of values and the expectations that have been placed in the company. People orientation is the other dimension whereby ethical leaders should know how their choices influence others and thus use their authority and influence others to do good. Motivating is another ethical leadership dimension where should enhance their credibility in inspiring others and thus build their trust. Empowering is also an act of an ethical leader whereby he or she provides the subordinates with essential cues regarding the extent they should perform, and as a result, they become more confident and stronger. Finally, the last dimension is accountable, whereby leaders accept responsibility for their actions and conduct in a transparent manner.
Failures in ethical leadership involved when a leader knew that what they were doing was morally wrong, but they were motivated to do it. Here, the failure to keep the dimensions of ethical leadership and act contrary to them. An example is the sexual harassment scandal at Fox. One of the executives of the company was involved in a lawsuit, where he was being accused of sexually harassing a female colleague. Here, the leader committed a failure in ethical leadership. He knew that he is supposed to be a role model as well as empower others to do good. On the contrarily, the leader did unethical behavior that had a huge impact on the employee. The executive is expected to behave ethically and be respectful. This issue should be fixed by putting heavy penalties on people who violate the ethical standards in the company. Further, firing all employees and executives who perform unethical actions should be a must (Kirklan, 2017).
References
Bratton, J. (Ed.). (2020).Organizational leadership. SAGE Publications Limited.
Kirklan, A., (2017). How Fox News Toxi Culture Is Finally Catching Up to it.
Discussion 2
Ethical leadership, as defined by Brown et al, (2005:120), is the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to follow through two-way communication, reinforcement and decision-making. According to Brown et al. (2005:120), one beneficial effect of ethical leadership is that through conveying high moral standards ethical leaders provide follower with voice. They involve followers in transparent decision-making and appreciate their opinions. (Borman et al., 2016).
Ethical leaders empower and develop employees and provide the information need to complete tasks which should make it easier for employees to learn and apply new skills and new technologies to achieve organizational goals. Ethical leaders also incorporate employees ideas into their decisions, involving them in goal setting. As a result, goals are better clarified and employees perceive them as their own, which should motivate greater efforts to achieve them. Interestingly, with ethical leaders, cooperativeness, and a sense of trust in others is likely to emerge, which facilitates teamwork and brings peoples efforts together to achieve organizational goals. Finally, since employees tried to be attracted to ethical environments, culture shaped by ethical leadership should, consequently, be more strongly shared by employees, which should enhance organizational effectiveness. (Metwally et al., 2019).
Yilmaz (2006) explains the ethical leadership in four classified dimensions as:
Communicational ethics: Includes that managers transfer their thoughts and feelings in a loving approach to subordinates, not having contradictions in their expressions, not having mischief-communication, and accepting their mistakes when necessary.
Behavioral ethics: States that managers originates logical solutions, is positive and understanding in debates and approach different opinion decently.
Climate ethics: Forming an organizational climate that everyone cares for code of conduct (Esmer et al., 2014).
In another approach, Resick et al. (2006) deals ethical leadership in 2 dimensions as conceptual ( includes: character and righteousness, collectivism and human oriented, motivation, reinforcement and encouragement) and scale dimension ( includes: character and righteousness, Altruism and common motivation).
Ethical leadership failures can be caused by individuals or may be embedded in the organizational culture, Individual causes are ignoring barriers, failing to use self-control, warped personal values, lack of moral compass. And organizational causes are lack of positive role models, no coaching, no ethical leadership and behavior standards, lack of clarity etc. Leaders can prevent the problems that lead to a failure of ethical leadership. Leaders should start talking about the dynamics that cause ethical problems and keep them from happening in the organization (Understanding and preventing ethical leadership failures. 2016).
References:
Bormann, K.C., & Rowald, J. (2016). Ethical leaderships potential and boundaries in organizational change: a moderated meditation model of employee silence. German journal of Human Resource Management. 30(3-4):225-245.
Understanding and presenting ethical leadership failure. (Jan 2016). Available from :https://leaderonomics.com/leadership/ethical-leadership-failure
Esmer, Y., Dayi, F. (Sep,2014). A new paradigm in management: Ethical leadership. Available from:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323259539_A_NEW_PARADIGM_IN_MANAGEMENT_ETHICAL_LEADERSHIP
Metawally, D., Palomins, P.R., Metawally, M., & Gartzia, L. (Nov,2019). How ethical leadership shapes employees readiness to change: The mediating Role of an organizational culture of effectiveness. Available from :https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02493/full
