et al., 2008).
Ethical leadership has the following basic principles: knowledge, humility, honesty, fairness, equality, and understanding the leadership role. The Microsoft Corporation is one archetypal example of a corporation epitomizing the ethical leadership approach. Founder Bill Gates demonstrated his personal core values of intensity, zeal and persistence, followed by pinpointing his vision that elimination of inequality could help improve our world. Gates brought his behavior in line with this vision, in addition to explicitly articulating this vision by managing and focusing his resources, energy and time towards making our world a better… Continue Reading...
to be freed. Moses was an ethical leader from the beginning who practiced both ethical leadership and transformational leadership skills to bring the Hebrews to the Promised Land. He killed a slave master for cruelly whipping a Hebrew, fled, met an angel of God, and returned to his true people to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and through the desert for 40 years.
Moses was given up by his mother as an infant because the Egyptian ruler feared that the Israelites were becoming too powerful and would ally themselves with Egypt’s enemy. So the order was given that all Israelite children should be… Continue Reading...
ensure the ongoing recruitment and retention of top performers.
Personal experiences also shed light on the importance of ethical leadership, particularly in hierarchical organizations like the army. I had the pleasure once of training under a senior officer who worked within the servant leadership framework. The servant leadership framework, which is typically contextualized under the rubric of spiritual leadership theory, resituates the role of the leader vis-a-vis the organization (Fry, Vitucci & Cedillo, 2005). Increasingly taking root within the ranks of Army leaders, servant leadership and spiritual leadership theory promotes a value-based ethical commitment that comprises everything from soldier motivation to engagement and productivity (Fry, Vitucci & Cedillo,… Continue Reading...
and detrimental strategic decisions. Ethical standards ought to be espoused and sustained by all managerial accountants with classic ethical leadership from the top-ranking management. In addition, devoid of driven ethical behavior by management accountants, all of the codes, policies and standards will eventually turn out to be ineffective (Ghose, 2017).
Product liability signifies one of the issues at the core of ethical and socially responsible behavior for businesses. Product liability encompasses the area in which business manufacturers or producers, distributors, suppliers, as well as retailers are held liable and culpable for the harm that such products cause. One of the key aspects that is linked to product liability… Continue Reading...
ethical leadership. Perspectives in Health… Continue Reading...
happening to Tesla under Musk’s unethical leadership practices. While Musk has always been recognized as a great innovative leader, bringing new ideas to the company and using his celebrity to promote the company’s goals, his lack of ethics has put him in the crosshairs of short-sellers and the SEC, both of whom have issues with his Wild West style of leadership, which often contravenes the rules and regulations. For example, since his settlement with the SEC over his “funding secured” debacle, Musk has been ordered to have all his tweets internally reviewed before being published—yet… Continue Reading...
