The document discusses the relationship between ethics and leadership. It summarizes an article that argues ethics and leadership are crucial components for organizational well-being. The article examines executive leadership, how executive leaders build ethical communities, and how they cope with ethical challenges. It recommends analyzing cases to study executive leadership and ethics within particular contexts. The document also discusses Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of an ethical transformational leader, and argues that ethics is the heart of leadership.
The document discusses the relationship between ethics and leadership. It summarizes an article that argues ethics and leadership are crucial components for organizational well-being. The article examines executive leadership, how executive leaders build ethical communities, and how they cope with ethical challenges. It recommends analyzing cases to study executive leadership and ethics within particular contexts. The document also discusses Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of an ethical transformational leader, and argues that ethics is the heart of leadership.
The document discusses the relationship between ethics and leadership. It summarizes an article that argues ethics and leadership are crucial components for organizational well-being. The article examines executive leadership, how executive leaders build ethical communities, and how they cope with ethical challenges. It recommends analyzing cases to study executive leadership and ethics within particular contexts. The document also discusses Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of an ethical transformational leader, and argues that ethics is the heart of leadership.
No doubt that ethical leadership has become an important issue in the
research field throughout history although many paramount questions remain controversial. In the article The Ethical Challenges of Executive Leadership: A Stakeholder Analysis (The Antonine University [UPA],Pertinence, no 4, 2011), Berj Traboulsi claims that Ethics & Leadership are crucial components for the wellbeing of many organizations. For him , ethics is about moral reasoning raising concerns on three main points (individual, organizational, & societal ) whereas leadership is about power, motivation, & change which has three central essentials( the leader, the followers ,and the context). His article tackles 3 main questions; what us executive leadership? How do executive leaders build ethical communities? How do they cope ethically with change and challenges? He makes a good combination between the ethical challenges within the Lebanons multicultural context. He believes the interaction among the various variables such as global and local cultures will not facilitate the study of executive leadership and organizational culture in Lebanon. So he recommends us to work on cases and analyze executive leadership and ethics with a particular context . He claims that successful leaders think strategically & take action to address them within the organizational context, and influence other stakeholders to drive the institution toward the desired performance outcomesSo; it is obvious that Traboulsi, by making use of reliable sources, highlights many issues about leadership. Furthermore, Ethics is the heart of leadership; it should go hand in hand. Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. When people think of Martin Luther King Jr., they think of a great leader. His famous I have a Dream speech shows just what kind of leader he was, a man who was very effective at what he did. King was described by some as having a unique way of getting people to work together rather than fight. He was a transformational leader. Transformational leaders are good examples of ethical leaders where followers are raised to higher standards to the point where they are being trained as leaders although I believe ethics is the heart of leadership.