Ethical issues in leadership

1. Ethical Issues in
Leadership

2. Contents of our presentation
Here’s what you’ll find in our presentation:
1. Definition what is Ethics and Ethical Leadership
2. Why do Ethics matter?
3. Most Common Ethical Challenges for Leaders
4. Leadership Approaches (Scope of Unethical behavior)
5. Outcomes of Ethical Leadership
6. Levels of management and ethical leadership
7. Factors that Enhance Leadership
● Ethical role modeling
● Ethical context
● Individual characteristics

3. Ethics
• is derived from the Greek word
“ethos” meaning custom or character
• Right from wrong
• Standards of moral values and
conducts that govern decision made
and actions carried out in the work
environment
• A leader should be ethical for the
better working of the organization

4. What is Ethical
Leadership?

5. Is directed by respect for ethical beliefs and
values and for the dignity and rights of
others.
Ethical Leadership

6. Why do
Ethics
Matter?

7. Why do Ethics Matter?
Good leaders are
credible
Good Leaders
don’t want to
harm others

8. The Most Common Ethical Challenges for
Leaders
Lack of
Accountability
Leaders should welcome
personal accountability and
transparency when available.
Conflicts of
Interest
Leaders should avoid
conflicts as much as
possible
Leaders who are fearful or
angry create cultures that
will either reflect or react
to their behaviors.
Fear &
Anger
Arrogance &
Inadequancy
This is not a form of
confidence that requires
that other’s be “Less than”
Negligence
Pay attentions and take
action

9. Leadership Approaches (Scope of Unethical
behavior)
Leadership
Approaches
Definition
Laissez Fair
Approach
●It is the type in which leaders are hands-off and allow group
members to make decisions, with minimum amount of
supervision
Autocratic
Approach
●Managers possess total authority and more often than not,
impose their will upon employees without any consideration
for their ideas
Participative
Approach
●It values input of team members and peers.
Transformational
Approach
●In this approach, Leaders motivate employees and enhance
productivity and efficiency through communication and high
visibility

10. Transactional Approach
This approach involves
manages and team members
setting pre determined goals
and employees agreeing to
follow the direction of the
manager
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11. Prosocial
behavior of
employee
Counter
productive
behavior of
employees
Ethical Decisions
of followers
Outcomes of Ethical Leadership
Positive follower
attitude

12. Factors that
Enhance Ethical
Leadership

13. Ethical Role
Modeling
Leaders also learn from a
role model
Ethical
Context
Ethical climate or the
culture in an organization
that supports ethics-related
attitudes and behaviours
Individual
Characteristics
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
Factors that Enchance
Leadership

14. Levels of
Management and
Ethical Leadership
Content of the Leader’s Job
● Executive and managerial work are
different, with roles and challenges that
are unique to each level. Certain
aspects of ethical leadership are likely
to vary depending on the level of
management.
Distance between leaders and
followers
● This expressed; physical distance,
social distance or frequency of task
interaction has an important impact on
how leaders are perceived as well the
outcomes with which they are
associated.

15. Thank you!
Angeles, Cathleen
Damian, Jap
Delos Santos, Justine
Donato, Mariecar