The Relationship Between Leader’s Ethics and Ethical Organization Climate
MGT 5550
Ethical Considerations in Leadership
Jeffrey L. Cypher, Instructor
The Relationship between Leader’s Ethics and Ethical Organization Climate
Qi Mao
School of Business
Madonna University
Feb. 18th 2013
The Relationship between Leader’s Ethics and Ethical Organization Climate
In recent years organizational ethics climate is a hot field of psychology on the management research, but the impact of leaderships’ moral level of development on organizational ethics is still a new topic. In this paper I try to analyze how leaderships’ moral level development and the ethical organization climate influence each other and the relationship between moral awareness level and moral judgment ability. Leaderships’ moral level development includes moral awareness level and moral judgment ability, and moral awareness level and moral judgment ability can help each other forward. As a result, leaderships’ moral level development becomes the primary determinant and internal factor of the ethical organization climate. There are some relationships that must be observed are interactions and reactions between these factors.
First, a significant positive correlation between the leaderships’ moral level awareness and the moral judgment ability indicates that the level of moral awareness and the ability of moral judgments have a higher consistency. It means that the leader who has high individual moral level awareness has the stronger moral judgment and ethical decision-making control. In a group, the power of making decision is definitely belongs to the leader. The decision which can be casted on others could reflect the ethical characteristics of the leader. When a leader has high individuals’ moral level awareness, his decision will be casted with full of positive energy. Conversely, the decision may cast the shadow of leader. The reason is that high individuals’ moral level awareness could promote leader to concern more situation
Ethical Considerations in Leadership
Jeffrey L. Cypher, Instructor
The Relationship between Leader’s Ethics and Ethical Organization Climate
Qi Mao
School of Business
Madonna University
Feb. 18th 2013
The Relationship between Leader’s Ethics and Ethical Organization Climate
In recent years organizational ethics climate is a hot field of psychology on the management research, but the impact of leaderships’ moral level of development on organizational ethics is still a new topic. In this paper I try to analyze how leaderships’ moral level development and the ethical organization climate influence each other and the relationship between moral awareness level and moral judgment ability. Leaderships’ moral level development includes moral awareness level and moral judgment ability, and moral awareness level and moral judgment ability can help each other forward. As a result, leaderships’ moral level development becomes the primary determinant and internal factor of the ethical organization climate. There are some relationships that must be observed are interactions and reactions between these factors.
First, a significant positive correlation between the leaderships’ moral level awareness and the moral judgment ability indicates that the level of moral awareness and the ability of moral judgments have a higher consistency. It means that the leader who has high individual moral level awareness has the stronger moral judgment and ethical decision-making control. In a group, the power of making decision is definitely belongs to the leader. The decision which can be casted on others could reflect the ethical characteristics of the leader. When a leader has high individuals’ moral level awareness, his decision will be casted with full of positive energy. Conversely, the decision may cast the shadow of leader. The reason is that high individuals’ moral level awareness could promote leader to concern more situation