1. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
BY: RENE ZAMORA
Sam Houston State University
Higher Education Administration Master’s Program

2. What is Ethical Leaders?
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3. Ethical Leadership:
Acting from the morals and values concerned
with the virtuousness of leaders and the nature
of their behavior and motives.
The choices leaders make and how they
respond in a given circumstance are informed
and directed by their ethics.

4. Become an Ethical Leader.
Follow these 5 principles:
The framework 

5. 1. Respect Others:
 Empower others and let your subordinates be
themselves creatively.
 Give credit to everyone’s ideas.
 Listen to your subordinates.
 Be empathetic.
 Be tolerant to opposing points of view.

6. 2. Serve Others:
Contribute to the greater good of others.
Service behavior includes:
Mentoring
Empower Others
Team Building

7. 3. Show Justice:
 Treat all subordinates equally
 Fairness should be main priority in decision making.
 Be clear about rules for distributing rewards. No favorites,
always be fair.

8. 4. Be Honest:
Always tell the truth
Be open with others and represent reality
exactly the way it is.
Do not promise something that you cannot do.
Do not misrepresent something.
Do not silence your obligations.

9. 5. Build Community:
Influence others to reach common goal.
Attend to more than just the leaders and
followers goals. Also attend to the community’s
goal and purpose.
An Ethical Leader is concerned with the common
good, in the broadest sense.

10. Morality is important!
A leader should limit the amount of incentives to
get their subordinates to do something.
Excessive reliance on incentives demoralizes
professional activity
Causes people to lose moral and it causes activity to
lose morality

11. How to maintain ethical
approaches in Higher
Education and elsewhere by:
 Celebrate everyone on your team who displays morality.
 Always consider the entire community (campus or
department) when a decision is made.
 Always get to know who you are working with and
develop trust within each other.

12. References:
 Kezar et al.: Revolutionary Concepts in Leadership
 Northhouse Leadership Ethics
 Our Loss of Wisdom video by Barry Schwartz
 Youtube video: Ellen responds to Sarah Palin