Three Habit to Create Strong Ethical Leaders Within Vietnam

Leadership styles and habits promote an organization ethical climate. Leadership styles include coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, and coaching elements. Transactional leaders negotiate or barter with employees while transformational leaders strive for a share vision and common leaning experience. The strong ethical leaders have a strong personal character, have a passion to do the right thing, are proactive, forcus on stackholders’ interests, are role models for the organization’s values, make transparent decisions, and take a holistic view of the firm’s ethical culture.
In Vietnam, sometimes the promotion process was not completely perfect then it may cause an generation of weakly ethical leaders especially in the public area. Three additional habits I would like to proposed to help create strong ethical leaders within Vietnam can be as follows:

Habit 1: Ethical leaders have skill on listening, analysing and evaluation
An Vietnamess ethical leader must have a capability to listen to the others. By listening, they can get the multisource information to understand the case in their organization and adjust their behavior ethically. By listening skill, they can be sympathized to the employee and create the belief in them. Also, the stackholder’s desire can be recognized to support the sustainabe development, and more environment responsible.
The skill for analysing is very important in the global business. It helps leader to find out the root of the problem as well as the systematical faults which are the base for making decision. The expectation on the behavior need to be established and communicated. Strong ethical leader must use the evaluation through the feedback and measure their improvement, then they can adjust their ethical behavior.
Habit 2: Ethical leaders have passion to improve knowledge and sharpen the saw.
Experiences and knowledge can support leaders in the ethical decision making. Many leaders in Vietnam should have the habit to improve their knowledge by seft-studying, by case study instead of using their past experiences in the global business with multiculture. The knowledge concerned to business ethics and law must be improved to avoid the activities that would harm the human rights. Sharpen the saw means the knowledge from studying should be applied in the real work in continously. By using the ethical framework regularly, leaders can be provided insights and knowledge about the ethical decision-making process in the organization. Moreover, the regularly using of knowledge and evaluation is a good way to create the habit. Habit 3: Ethical leaders are creative thinking people.
The habit of some Vietnamese leaders is to use a template for the case with the same signal although the environment have been changed. Creative can help to find the better solution for the same ethical problem in a way not to make conflict of stakeholders’ interest; is one of the characteristics that helps leader to improve and perfect their decision in ethical issues.
Leader with creative is the real leader who can guide all employees in the organization to the goals, enforce the organization’s rule and policies with their creative solution and prestige.