Bowl Of Stew

Ethics is the guiding force in any respectable organization. With a moral compass, especially in the leadership of organization, a company can become compromised and fall into a quagmire of legal issues, a tarnished reputation, and devaluation of company stock if it is a publically traded company. In pursuit of examine my own ethical lens I will analyze the ethical traits of an admired leader, my own traits as exhibited in the Ethical Lens Inventory, and how I make a decision concerning a particular ethical dilemma.

This paper will first discuss briefly what ethics are and provide the definition for an ethical issue. An ethical leadership issue is identified and explained for this author’s practice area. We will then identify and discuss key strategies for leadership that are pertinent to the ethical issue. Next, empirical evidence which supports the strategies discussed will be analyzed. Then, the impact and importance of the strategies will be stated. The final step will be to provide a conclusion to the reader that summarizes the content and strategies.

Many pivotal managerial principles and practices are exemplified in the Case Study, Outrage at Eastern. In this particular story a manager, Charles Jackson, is faced with many difficult decisions regarding problems concerning one of his workers at Eastern Plating. One of Jackson’s workers named Marty Reid is accused of molestation of his stepdaughter. His allegations are made public in a recent writing in the “Evening Beacon”, the daily paper of the 10,000 town’s population. Reid also has his wife going against him as well, which automatically makes him guilty to the majority of the town. When Jackson reads the paper he immediately understands what he might be faced with in the next upcoming days of

The contingency theory (Browning, 2007, p. 190) suggests that leader’s effectiveness depends on how well the leader’s style fits the context. This means effective leaders in this era have the ability to distill their complex messages into accessible ones. In other words, an effective leader is aware of his/ her client’s informational needs and values and thus, creates information to suit their needs. Therefore, leaders tend to regulate and control expressive activity in and around the workplace from legal, managerial, and ethical perspectives (Barry B, 2007). This trend tends to work for organizations that try to cover massive change by creating as little impact on their employees as possible without doing anything ethically wrong in their business.

Another essential aspect of my ethical framework is whether or not I, as a leader, would be forced to lie or deceive in order to go forward with the action. As a person I value trust and honesty, but moreover, as a young twenty-something with my eye on corporate America, I believe trust and honesty are absolutely essential to uphold your integrity and credibility as an organization. With so many stories of fraud, betrayal, theft, embezzlement, dishonest business transactions and so forth apparent in current US corporate society, I strive to uphold my belief in the truth as a foundation for any situation; even if some may consider a "small white lie" absolutely necessary in the matter, I vowel to never lie or be dishonest for any type of gain or protection. This can go hand in hand with how I value confidence and its role in my framework, which I elaborate on below.

Evan likes David and wants to give him a position he did not earn. Evan has the power to hire who he wants. Evan’s behavior is somewhat typical of some leaders who have power that they can and do use to their advantage. Over 85% of jobs are gotten by referrals or networking. Although a lot of networking and referrals are done in an ethical manner, there are many cases where jobs are given unethically.

Ethical leadership practices shape and support trust, and trust is decided to a great extent by the conduct of the

The leadership style at Boeing is high structured, high consideration where the organization provides step by step guidance on how tasks are to be completed and it is highly considerate of the employee needs and wants. At Boeing honesty matters, the organization outlines initiatives that focuses on enabling the culture of openness and accountability to maintain an ethical workplace that will increase business performance. Their leadership is based on transformational leadership where the focus is on their ethical approach to doing things the correct way and allowing employees to be open about issues and concerns. This approach has become embedded in the ethical decision-making aspect of business, equipping managers

It is rare that a person can easily find their own faults, because they think that everything they do is right or justified. For the longest time this was me. As expressed by Urbany, Joel, Reynolds, and Phillips (2008), “Chief among these traps, especially regarding decisions that people later come to regret, is their failure to evaluate decisions in a comprehensive way that focuses on values trade-offs.” I thought I was a great leader, and there was nothing else that I could learn as a person. It was through the assessments and this week’s work reflection, I realized through regret there is so much work needs to be done. I have to acknowledge my downfalls willingly in order to correct them. I realized that my ambitions strive me to continually take on tasks. I felt overwhelmed this week because of these ambitions. I understand that my attitude at times can alter a situation because I have people looking at everything that I do. Even though I tried to hide my true feelings for the best of the organization, my thoughts reflected in my actions.

Those that do/have don't know all the shit I've been through because I don't disclose all facets of my life to people. The term "leadership qualities" has stalked me all my life and I've tried to rebuke that part of myself for quite sometime. I'd still end up in these roles and recently I've accepted that I can not escape that part of me. I still struggle with it, do my best to guide people properly, and listen before making decisions. I want to use this to make music and be a light in this, at times, dark fucked up world, but the more this thing weighs on my head and heart...The more my least favorite tactic in human history seems rational. Fighting fire with

It is only during moral lapses and corporate scandals that interest groups and the broader public ask themselves the fundamental ethical questions, who are the managers of the organization and were they acting with the ethical guidelines. For a long time, the issue of ethics was largely ignored, with organizations focusing on profit maximization. However, this has changed, and much attention is now focused on ethics management by researchers and leaders. The issue of ethics has arisen at a time when public trust on corporate governance is low, and the legitimacy of leadership is being questioned. Leaders are expected to be the source of moral development and ethical guidance to their employees.

Plato once asked whether you would rather be "an unethical person with a good reputation or an ethical person with a reputation for injustice." Ethical leadership has long been a debate in regards to its importance and place in the universal business world.

“It is important for leaders to tell a compelling and morally rich story, but ethical leaders must also embody and live the story. This is a difficult task in today’s business environment where everyone lives in a fishbowl—on public display. So many political leaders fail to embody the high-minded stories they tell at election time, and more recently, business leaders have become the focus of similar criticism through the revelations of numerous scandals and bad behaviours. CEOs in today’s corporations are really ethical role models for all of society.”

There are stories around the world about corruption and unethical leadership; these stories often make headlines in newspapers, magazines, and televised news programming. There is an abundance of immorality in the workplace; at the scale is at, it should be considered a plague. It runs rampant in all forms of business, in white collar crime and blue collar crime. White collar crime itself is the practice and history of unethical and inauthentic leadership in the professional world. Thus, while the direct and superficial focus is authentic leadership and behavioral integrity, the

Self-leadership is defined as the process people influence themselves to establish self-direction, self-management, and self-motivation (Neck & Manz, 2010).