16-11-2016

Leadership and Values

Sharath
Sridhar
Kanchan
Vineeth
Gaurav

What is Leadership- Some Insights

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Professor Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leader Who exactly is a leader

Creates an inspiring vision of the future.
Motivates and inspires people to engage with that vision.
Manages delivery of the vision.
Coaches and builds a team, so that it is more effective at achieving the vision.

Leader (My View) Daily, Frequent, LEADER

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Values, Ethics and Morals

Ethics describes a generally accepted set of moral principles.

o Examples: Truthfulness, Honesty, Respect, Fairness, Integrity
Morals describes the goodness or badness or right or wrong of actions
o Examples: Do not cheat, Be loyal, Be patient
Values describes individual or personal standards of what is valuable or important
o Examples: Integrity, Customer Satisfaction

Values : Constructs representing generalized behaviours or states of affairs that are considered by individual
to be important

Generational Differences in Values

Veterans(1922-1943)
Baby Boomers(1942-1960)
Gen Xers(1960-1980)
Nexters(1980-)

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Ethics vs Morals

Moral and Ethical Reasoning

Preconventional Level
Conventional Level
PostConventional Level

What effects Moral Decision making?

Implicit Prejudice
Ingroup Favoritism
Overclaiming Credit
Conflicts of Interest

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Ethical Dilemmas

Truth Vs Loyality
Individual Vs Community
Short term Vs Long term
Justice Vs Mercy

How to Resolve

Ends based thinking Do the best for greatest number of people

Rule based thinking Following the highest principle or duty
Care based thinking Do what you want others to do to you

Every option is a best option

Why do good people do bad things

Moral Justification
Euphemistic labelling
Advantageous comparison
Displacement of responsibility
Diffusion of responsibility
Disregard or Distortion of consequences
Dehumanization
Attribution of blame

How to Resolve ?
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Ethics and Value based approaches to leadership

Authentic Leadership
o Consistency in Values
o Inspired by Maslows theory of Self Actualization
o Realistic Self Perceptions
o Away from misperceptions
o Self Awareness

Servant Leadership
o Derived from Bureaucratic and Mechanistic View of Organizations
o Listening
o Empathy
o Healing
o Awareness
o Persuasion
o Ceonceptualization
o Foresight
o Stewardship
o Commitment
o Building Community

The role of Ethics and value sin organizational Leadership

Lead By Example
Creating and Sustaining and Ethical Climate