After completing the reading this week, we reflect on a few key concepts this week:

1. Discuss what ethical leadership is and how it impacts the organizational culture.
2. What are the various dimensions of ethical leadership?
3. Note some failures in ethical leadership, please find an example, explain the failure and note possible solutions to fix the issue with leadership.

Please be sure to answer all the questions above in the initial post.

Please ensure the initial post and two response posts are substantive. Substantive posts will do at least TWO of the following:

· Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic

· Expand on the topic, by adding additional thoughtful information

· Answer a question posted by another student in detail

· Share an applicable personal experience

· Provide an outside source

· Make an argument

At least one scholarly (peer-reviewed) resource should be used in the initial discussion thread. Please ensure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use APA references and in-text citations.

Vasant:

Ethical Leadership: The ethical leadership is that the individual has moral, educational, and professional obligations. The ethical leadership is that which does what is right. The idea is that one person, the leader, must have all the power. And, therefore, it is a moral position. Ethical leadership includes people who make clear boundaries for their activities to be, that boundaries are explicit in their actions and in their communication to others. An ethical leader is someone who is aware of what needs to be done and what is the purpose to achieve in order to achieve goals.

Impacts of ethical leadership: It may impact the organization’s structure in several ways. The best practices for managing ethical conduct in organizations are not always going to be as clear as for other people. In most cases, those are going to be much less obvious. The impact of ethical leadership on organizations is far-reaching. It can improve organization’s ability to adapt to the world and achieve more meaningful outcomes. Organizations can be improved through this. When an organization is asked to change their ways, it must develop a positive attitude towards ethical leadership. It must realize that if an organization wants to be more effective, it has to improve its ethical leadership When it comes to managing ethical conduct in organizations is that there’s a strong tendency to use some kind of rules that tend to be the standard in the organization as a whole (Ahmad & Gao, 2018).

Various dimensions of ethical leadership: The different dimensions of ethical leadership can be classified into three dimensions. For each of the three dimensions of ethical leadership, the ethical development needs to be distinguished from the moral leadership, and vice versa. It has to be noted that ethical development is of the form which corresponds to the developmental phase for moral development (Ahmad & Gao, 2018).

Failures in ethical leadership and possible solutions to fix the issue:  The first area is the lack of information. The second area is lack of perspective. The third area is the lack of transparency. The goal here is to raise awareness about the ethical pitfalls with leaders, so that people can avoid making such ethical choices in future leadership engagements. Provide detailed solutions to eliminate and minimize the problems with ethics governance (Dust, Resick, Margolis, Mawritz, & Greenbaum, 2018). Provide a list of ethical and legal issues that may affect the ethical leadership of the board. Provide clear and detailed examples of ethical leadership failures of the board.

Reference:

Ahmad, I., & Gao, Y. (2018). Ethical leadership and work engagement. Management Decision.

Dust, S. B., Resick, C. J., Margolis, J. A., Mawritz, M. B., & Greenbaum, R. L. (2018). Ethical leadership and employee success: Examining the roles of psychological empowerment and emotional exhaustion. The Leadership Quarterly, 29(5), 570-583.

Praveen:

1. Ethical leadership is how people behave in the way it is expected that leaders behave. Ethical leadership is all about the people who are at the top. It is about people who can lead. It is about leadership skills. The key thing is, you have leaders who can do it. The term ethical leadership describes the person who creates an environment that values and supports others’ goals, regardless of whether the goals are realistic or if they are in alignment with others. It provides a framework for the organization to operate ethically. It provides a system or system for measuring, evaluating, and improving performance and performance indicators. The impact of ethical leadership on organizational culture, as compared with other areas of organizational life, is complex. Ethical leadership, which emphasizes a spirit of cooperation and collaboration, is associated with an ethos of respect and integrity, which includes a commitment to upholding high standards and to promoting the dignity and equality of individuals. This ethic of respect, however, is accompanied by a strong commitment to social norms and to values of fairness, fairness, and fairness. These values are not static but evolve based on experience, knowledge, and wisdom. The values of respect and fairness are reflected in many aspects of the organizational culture, such as the practices of senior management and employees, the policies of employees, and the practices of the organization. At the same time, ethical leaders tend to focus on the moral principles and practices that are the core of their organizations (Pircher Verdorfer & Peus, 2020).

2. The first dimension of leadership is to be able to create, sustain and protect an environment that’s conducive to the creation of values and moral principles. That is, to create a safe environment for the creation of values. Second, the leadership must be able to create an environment that is conducive to its own development. That is, to build a safe environment for the development of the leader. Third, leadership must have the ability to protect values from being eroded. The erosion of values is a natural process. Fourth, the leadership is not merely an act; it is a way of life. This is another element that’s necessary for the development of a leader, for the maintenance of a safe environment and for the growth and development of the leader.

3. The failure of ethical leadership is not the inability to act in good conscience. It is a failure to use moral authority to make moral decisions and to have a genuine moral compass, to have a moral vision, to make moral plans, to have a vision for the good world that the people who live in that good world will want to live in. It is an intellectual failure to make clear moral judgments about what is good, what is bad, what should be forbidden, what should be permitted, and what should not be permitted. Example: An ethical leader in the workplace does not tell other people about a failure. For example, a CEO might not tell the board that a company has failed a quality system audit. Instead, the failure might be kept a secret. The board might not know about failures in the audit (Saha, et al., 2020).

References:

Pircher Verdorfer, A., & Peus, C. (2020). Leading by example: Testing a moderated mediation model of ethical leadership, value congruence, and followers’ openness to ethical influence. Business Ethics: A European Review, 29(2), 314-332.

Saha, R., Cerchione, R., Singh, R., & Dahiya, R. (2020). Effect of ethical leadership and corporate social responsibility on firm performance: A systematic review. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 27(2), 409-429.