Ethical Socratic questioning is a way that an ethical leader who has strong Socratic questioning style can assist employees in improving their thinking ability and can make a positive influence on the employees thought process. This can pave the way for the employees to think positively …show more content…
Trust is something which can be defined as a mutual confidence, loyalty as well as ethical behavior, however during the process of Socratic questioning, a leader carefully constructs his questions to draw information out of learners instead of providing subordinates with the answers to the problem. This engagement between the two can lead to a logical response and to the point where knowledge, application, synthesis and evaluation are integrated as a form of active learning pedagogy, inconjuction builds mutual confidence and loyalty in their leaders (Rhee 2007). This kind of conversation facilitates the development of relationship between supervisors and subordinates, which eventually helps employees to create mutual confidence within one …show more content…
In asking questions, people will be encouraged to be curious in finding the best possible answers. Sometimes the conclusion drawn by the Socratic questioning isn’t the one that the leader originally predicted. However through the new answer, both the leader and follower can benefit from it in the form of synergy. (Tucker, 2007)
Lastly, Socratic questioning is a tool for a leader as well as a subordinate to find the solution in ethical problems. According to leadership material, effective leaders exhibit humility and admit they don’t know the answers. “The sooner we admit we do not have the answer at hand, the sooner we put our energies toward finding the answer” (Lindenmayer,