Ethical Leadership - Integrity
2. Ethical leadership is mostly about leadership integrity. Discuss.
Introduction
In the recent years, ethics has been an issue in leadership positions. In order to create a strong ethical based environment, it is important to have an appropriate leader and leadership integrity. Ethical leadership, leadership integrity and trust will be further discussed in this essay. Ethical leadership is being perceived as both a moral person and moral manager (Trevino & Brown 2004). Leadership integrity is defined as a leader with integrity where integrity is concerned with leaders’ behaviours in consistent with personal values (Storr 2004).
Ethical leadership
Ethical leadership is the ability to lead the followers with respects of their dignity and rights (Mayer et al. 2012). Followers will perform ethically with the lead of an ethical leader. The different elements of ethical leadership are leader’s personal values such as integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, behaviours, and their decision making process (Trevino & Brown 2004). The way leaders act and how their actions influence the followers also contributes to ethical leadership.
According to Trevino and Brown (2004), ethical leadership is not all about individual’s character, integrity, honesty and fairness. It is believed that a leader’s personal values will influence not only their own behaviour, beliefs, decision making process but also the followers’ (McCann and Holt 2009). It is also a combination of being perceived as both moral person and moral manager. The leader must be able to lead his followers to perform ethically.
Moral Person
Being perceived as moral person, which is a person with good character (Trevino & Brown 2004). However, it depends on the followers’ perception of the leader’s person traits, behaviours and decision making process. Ethical leaders are usually known as leaders who are honest and transparent. In order to have a good relationship between the leader and his
Introduction
In the recent years, ethics has been an issue in leadership positions. In order to create a strong ethical based environment, it is important to have an appropriate leader and leadership integrity. Ethical leadership, leadership integrity and trust will be further discussed in this essay. Ethical leadership is being perceived as both a moral person and moral manager (Trevino & Brown 2004). Leadership integrity is defined as a leader with integrity where integrity is concerned with leaders’ behaviours in consistent with personal values (Storr 2004).
Ethical leadership
Ethical leadership is the ability to lead the followers with respects of their dignity and rights (Mayer et al. 2012). Followers will perform ethically with the lead of an ethical leader. The different elements of ethical leadership are leader’s personal values such as integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, behaviours, and their decision making process (Trevino & Brown 2004). The way leaders act and how their actions influence the followers also contributes to ethical leadership.
According to Trevino and Brown (2004), ethical leadership is not all about individual’s character, integrity, honesty and fairness. It is believed that a leader’s personal values will influence not only their own behaviour, beliefs, decision making process but also the followers’ (McCann and Holt 2009). It is also a combination of being perceived as both moral person and moral manager. The leader must be able to lead his followers to perform ethically.
Moral Person
Being perceived as moral person, which is a person with good character (Trevino & Brown 2004). However, it depends on the followers’ perception of the leader’s person traits, behaviours and decision making process. Ethical leaders are usually known as leaders who are honest and transparent. In order to have a good relationship between the leader and his