Ethical Leadership

ECOFORUM, 2023

The prosperity and success of any company greatly depends on the leadership qualities and skills of the management. Leadership is essential for successful management. It is a process where one person has a certain influence on other members and leads them to achieve the set goal by a process. A leader is the person with the leverage of influence. The head of the organization should be an effective manager and a leader. When it comes to a leadership, the issue of ethics is also worth noting. A leader, who works alongside with and makes an impact on people with different characteristics, must behave ethically. Every single decision made by a leader should be based on ethical standards. A leader must be able to control himself and others, to manage emotions, take responsibility and make fair decisions. Consequently, issues related to ethical leadership are an important research subject and the given article deals with those aspects of ethics that are directly concerned to a leadership.

2014

In the contemporary value based society ethics plays an important role in all spheres of life. Corporate houses are no exceptions to it. The ethical scandals in business raised questions about the role of leadership and ethical conducts and shaken the public confidence on business organizations. At this juncture, the concept of ethical leadership is getting popularity and prominence. Leaders, if ethical brings tremendous business impacts .In contrast, if the ethical ways of leading is not practiced it spoils the whole image of the business. That‘s why Ethical Leadership should be a concern for today‘s organizations not only for better organizational performance but also to sustain competitive advantage. The concept of ethical leadership is not confined only to philosophical literature rather in today‘s business environment it is imperative and a weapon to reach the pinnacle of success. This paper is an attempt to give a comprehensive review of the concept of ethical leadership, the ...

Journal of Leadership in Organizations, 2020

2018

This paper examines an important role of ethical leadership in this age of fast pace changing world. It throws light on core elements of ethical leadership in an organization. Being an ethical leader, individual thinks about long term consequences, challenges and benefits of the different decisions which he makes in an organization. Ethical leaders are always characterized as humble, conscientious, inclusive and considerate. They are also concerned for a greater good, striving for fairness in their actions. They are never afraid to take responsibility. The main motto of ethical leader is to set high ethical standards which are suitably to be infused and followed. They create strong influence in terms of instilling ethical values of the organization by setting quintessential example of their behavior. This paper also focuses of different strategies to be used by ethical leader for integrating concept of ethical leadership into the organization. A real ethical leader is one who serves...

Abstract The purpose of this paper was to present an assessment of leader’s effectiveness relationship with ethical leadership style in the context of organizational performance. The assignment of the “research design” comprehensive question suggests that “results from qualitative research indicate that a leader’s effectiveness is related to the leader’s ethical example and leadership style” while research has shown the importance of the leadership style impact on employees’ motivation and performance, the proposed theories to be considered about ethics and effective leadership are discussed. In order to seek understanding of how ethics in leadership is related to effectiveness, ethical leadership is described as competency, from the standpoint of compliance with governance, which determines on the one hand the leader’s ethical behavior, and on the other hand explains the leader’s effectiveness. In this paper ethical leadership is explained to examine which theory is best related to effectiveness. The paper also provides a literature review of previous studies that focus on ethical leadership relationship with effectiveness. Keywords: Ethical leadership, Leadership behavior, Leader’s effectiveness, Qualitative research, Organizational performance, Work engagement, Motivation.

The aim of this study is to examine the relations of ethical leadership among the organizational trust, affective commitment and job satisfaction. For this aim, firstly, the ethical leadership, secondly organizational trust, thirdly affective commitment and, finally, the job satisfaction are explained. In the application part, a questionnaire including the measures of the ethical leadership, organizational trust, affective commitment and job satisfaction is distributed to employees of one of the leading private universities in Turkey and the data were assessed by statistical analysis methods. Finally, it is found that there is a positive relationship among ethical leadership, organizational trust, affective commitment and the job satisfaction

The role of ethics in leadership studies is very important for organizations. Leadership without ethics and integrity can be harmful both for the organizational stakeholders and society. The high-profiled scandals and the leadership involvement in unethical activities caused increase attention of the scholars and mainstream media in the leadership ethics (Hartog, 2015). This resulted a growing research in the field of ethical leadership behavior. For this reason, the present study review ethics-related leadership including ethical leadership and other ethic-related leadership theories to better understand the importance of the ethics and morality in these leadership constructs. This study also presented a comprehensive review on ethical leadership and its similarities and differences with other related leadership styles. Another focus of this study was to present the definitions of each leadership style and their scales, and to establish that how ethical leadership is distinct from each leadership style. Future directions and conclusion are presented in the last of the paper.

2019

Recent failure ofethical practices in the organizations shifted the focus of organization towards ethicality and ethical leadership (EL). The question that needed consideration is which factors contribute to the advent and maintenance of EL. This study aims to, firstly identify contextual factor that can influence EL emergence and maintenance. Ethical Culture (EC) based on literature and theory was identified as potential antecedent of ethical leadership. Secondly, it intends to develop and further test a research framework consisting of EC dimensions as antecedents of ethical leadership and employee performance as an outcome. A sample consisted of 369 personnelemployed in varioushospitalslocated in the area of Rawalpindi/Islamabad. Hypotheses formulated in the study were supported by the results.

Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 2018

This article identifies components of ethical leadership and then aligns them with the style of leadership that includes them. The importance of such an article comes at a time when ethical practices or lack thereof seems to be increasingly prevalent in many organizations' execution of their business practices. These organizations quite often have an ethics statement outlining required behavior of employees and tout their commitment to employees, society, and the customer, yet we continue to see major infractions of these codes of ethics. All this comes at a high financial cost to organizations. In order to avoid such fines, and damage to brand equity, we propose ethical components which must permeate the organization to ensure appropriate behavior which neither breaks legal requirements, disengages the employee, or alienates the customer.