ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

Ethical Leadership

Ethical Leadership

Introduction

The paper discusses the role of ethical leadership to formulate a socially responsible organization. The paper also enlightens personal qualities and mind-sets of managers. The paper creates an understanding of society and obligations of the businesses. The paper also describes assumptions related to management. Environmental features of leadership choices; diversity and corporate social responsibility are also discussed in this paper. The paper also explains ethical culture along with the role of planning and auditing. The paper also discusses codes of practice along with code of conduct and ethics (McWilliams, 2001).

Personal qualities and mind-sets which managers may need to learn

Managers have resources such as people, material and budget. Managers have to manage their resources effectively and get work done through people. Management activities include planning, organizing, coordinating, motivating, staffing, controlling and leading. Managers get their results effectively through other people by applying the process of delegation. From an organizational perspective, management is the achievement of organizational objectives through people and other resources. It is also clear achievement of the objectives through the administrative functions of the four intrinsic functions.

Planning - the choice of targets and action plan for achieving them.

Organization - distribution of tasks between different departments or employees and the establishment of interaction between them.

Leadership - motivating artists to the implementation of planned activities and achieve their goals.

Control - correlation of real progress with the planned.

Understanding society and the role and obligations of business

Businesses - small, medium or large - they act at the national or the international community to form a work which, itself, reflects the opinions, social realities and rules of the larger communities where they operate. Some members a company can be grouped to form a company producing goods or services to sell them in the community where they live - and perhaps beyond its limits - and thereby make a profit within the rules set by the company. The benefits are critical to the company, they can pay investors to invest in new products and technologies to meet the expectations of workers in pay and career and pay taxes and other contributions to Government in accordance with laws and regulations. In other words, without profit, there no business and without business, there is no wealth creation in society. The obligations on businesses are law enforcement. Philanthropy and CSR are not included in the business obligations. The primary role and the main goal of business in society are to succeed its markets and generate products, wealth, employment and income for people who depend on it. The expectations placed on companies not should not jeopardize this role or away from it (Asmus, 2005).

Questioning given assumptions about management

The assumptions organize our relationships and determine the nature of business relationships. Managers seldom clothe their assumptions in oral statements, but they follow them in their practice. Because of the fact that some assumptions lead to irreproachable results, and others - to the poor, not all of them can be taken as the starting point of providential ...