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Ethical Leadership and Ethical Dilemmas.

Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem 7 > Software Project Management

Marks: 10 M

Year: May 2014

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Ethical Leadership:

  • Ethical leadership focuses on how leasers use their social power in the decisions they make, actions they engage in and ways they influence others.
  • Leaders who are ethical demonstrate a level of integrity that is important for stimulating a sense of leader trustworthiness, which is important for followers to accept the vision of the leader.
  • The character and integrity of the leader provides the basis for personal characteristics that direct a leader’s ethical beliefs, values and decisions.
  • Leaders who are ethical are people oriented and also aware of how their decisions impact others. They use their social power to serve the greater good instead of self-serving interests.
  • In ethical leadership it is important for the leader to consider how his or her decisions impact others.
  • Motivating followers to put the needs or interests of the group ahead of their own is another quality of ethical leaders.

Ethical Dilemmas:
Common Ethical Dilemmas

  • Human resource situations
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Confidence
  • Corporate resources

Making Sound Ethical Decisions

  • Gather of facts
  • Define ethical issue
  • Identify affected stakeholders
  • Identify consequences
  • Identify obligations
  • Consider your character and integrity
  • Think creatively about potential actions
  • Check your guts.
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