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.