Department of Fashion Management Studies (FMS)

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY PATNA

GEM FINAL ASSIGNMENT

Professional ethics and values
Topic- Ethical Leadership
Submitted by:
Abhinav
Ankit
Divya
Shruti
Surbhi
Submitted to: Mr. Ashok
 Acknowledgement
As a group, we would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to our
faculty, Mr. Ashok for his assistance and guidance throughout the
project. We learned a lot more as a result of this project, which will be
very beneficial to our understanding of the subject and ability to excel in
it.
Abstract
Ethical leaders retain different thinking about long term consequences, limitations and
benefits of the opinions they're needed to make within the association. The main job of
the ethical leaders is, they should take into consideration, morals, principles, values,
norms and ethics, when they're carrying out colorful job duties and convey the same to
the other members. Ethical leaders set high norms and carry out tasks and conditioning
in agreement to them. They convey to the other members how to apply ethics in their
work, hence, they themselves need to be professional and professed in their conduct.
They impact ethical values of the association through their geste. Leaders serve as part
models for their followers and show them the behavioral boundaries set within an
association. They're perceived as honest, veracious, secure, responsible, dependable,
valorous, fair and authentic.

.Introduction
Ethics is concerned with describing and defining moral conditions and geste. Ethics is
the law of values and moral principles that guides the individual or group as innocently
applicable or unhappy. Within the community or association or home, individualities
always anticipate ethical geste, rightfully and innocently. Leadership is defined as the art
of prevailing the followers, who intend to pursue effects, conditioning and pretensions
formulated by the leaders. Leaders vary depending on the individual leadership style that
emerges from personality characteristics. Some leaders, substantially attractive and
transformational, have power and authority, through which they involve the workers. On
the other hand, there are other leaders, who use the positional, and licit power. Leaders
are characterized by different values, morals, stations, beliefs, procedures, conduct,
behaviors and practices and that's to a certain extent dependent upon the organizational,
professional or institutional culture.

Ethical leadership is a conception that appears to be uncertain and includes colorful

factors. Rather than perceiving ethical leadership as precluding people from carrying out
unhappy acts, authors suggest that one should view it as enabling people to do the right
thing. An ethical leader is a person living up to the principles of conduct that are pivotal
for him. To be an ethical leader, one needs to observe a more universal standard of moral
question. Leading immorally is believed to be a process of disquisition, one should be
apprehensive of what's applicable and what's unhappy and mode of conduct. Ethical
leadership sets an illustration for followers and others about the righteousness or injustice
of particular conduct. It can be viewed in terms of restorative and amping powers of fidelity
and recognition that leadership is a complementary relation with the followers. Leader’s
charge is to help and support his aspiration to perform the function of leading in an
applicable manner. It's beginning to admit consideration and is gaining elevation in the
present actuality.
Ethical Organizations

An organization is defined as the group, it may comprise from two people to thousands
of individualities, who work and unite with each other to achieve the asked goals and
objectives. Organizations are also referred to as systems, meaning that they are corridors
or groups that integrate with each other to negotiate the asked goals and objects. There
are four main areas that constitute an ethical association, these include, resources,
processes, labors and issues (Butts,n.d.). The main resources that comprise the system
of the association are, financial resources and mortal coffers. Monetary coffers are the
finances and mortal coffers are the help that work in the perpetration of tasks and
functions. Processes relate to the procedures, how the associations should work to
achieve the asked goals and objects. Labors relate to the products or services that are
handed by the associations and issues relate to the end results or benefits of the guests.
Issues can be positive in the form of gains or client satisfaction or negative in the form of
losses or client dissatisfaction. In case of negative issues, ethical leaders assay the
causes and formulate measures demanded to dodge productivity and profitability.

Associations are occasionally compared to the individualities in that an association

functions as a moral agent that can be held responsible for the conduct accepted. The
organizational ethics should concentrate on the choices and interests of the individualities
and the associations. The term, organizational ethics is a comprehensive term that
includes not only culture, values, morals and trust, but also procedures, rules, programs
and issues. The ethics of an association refers to an association’s attempt to define the
charge and the values, recognition of values that induce stressful situations and
problems, framing results to the pressures and operation of the operations to maintain
their values. The ethics process serves as the medium for the association to address
ethical issues. Within the association, important areas that need to be taken into account
are, financial, business, operation and relationship.
Finances are regarded as imperative, as perpetration of all types of tasks and functions
bear financial coffers, hence, one should be apprehensive of how to manage the finances
in an acceptable manner. Fiscal losses are mischievous and beget disadvantages to the
functioning of the association. Business is substantially concerned with enjoying
acceptable knowledge and information that's needed in the perpetration of tasks and
functions. For leaders as well as for other individualities, it's essential to induce
mindfulness regarding important areas. Operation is related to the acceptable
performance of directorial functions of planning, organizing, directing, staffing and
controlling. The proper perpetration of these functions bear chops and capacities on the
part of the leaders. Relationship is when the members of the association are needed to
form applicable terms and conditions with each other. The pretensions and objects of the
association can not be achieved in isolation, it's imperative for the individualities to
cooperate, integrate and work in collaboration with each other. They need to retain
effective communication chops and devise judgments to conflicts and controversies.

Compliance and ethics programs are designed to help unlawful conduct and to promote
conformity with externally assessed regulations. During the 1980s, compliance programs
gained elevation as a way for the associations to satisfy the accreditation for addressing
ethical and legal issues. Immorally, the principles of autonomy, benevolence, and justice
are at the threat of violation in relation to the individualities, who are working in the
association as well as for the public welfare. There have been multitudinous cases, when
individualities put detriment upon others, there are circumstances of conflicts and
controversies. These are walls within the course of achievement of the asked goals and
objects. Thus, individualities should be apprehensive of the rules, programs and morals
that are essential to perform one’s job duties in an applicable manner.

Principles of Ethical Leadership

Ethics is concerned with the kind of values and morals that

a person or a society considers desirable or proper. Ethics
informs and directs the decisions that leaders make and
how they respond in a particular situation.
Respect, service, community, fairness, and honesty are the
five principles of ethical leadership. Ethical leadership is
based on these ideas.

Ethical Leaders Respect Others:-Respect signifies that a leader pays attention to his
or her followers, empathizes with them, and tolerates competing viewpoints. Everyone
must value the differences among themselves and remember that everyone is superior
to others in some manner. To put it another way, team members are not required to be
like you, and you do not have to be like them. Allow each person to be themselves, with
their own values, wants, and goals.

Ethical Leaders Serves others:-It's all about the leader's compassion. They prioritize
the well-being of their followers in their plans. This translates to activists in the workplace,
such as mentoring, empowering, team building, and so on. Ethical leaders have a
thorough awareness of each individual and make decisions that are beneficial to their
well-being rather than detrimental. Ethical leaders must avoid furthering their own
objectives at the expense of their employees.

Ethical Leaders Shows Justice:-Ethical leaders prioritize fairness and justice so that all
team members are treated equally. Any social group's primary foundation is equality. In
general, no one should be given special attention or consideration unless his or her
position necessitates it. To put it another way, equality necessitates that leaders take the
same acts against each individual. "Treat them all the same by treating them differently,"
it simply says. The justification for differential treatment, on the other hand, must be
obvious and reasonable, and it must be consistent across all individuals.

Ethical Leaders are Honest:-One must be honest to be a good leader. Honesty entails
not only telling the truth but also being transparent. Having said that, leaders must
nevertheless create a balance between when to say something and when not to say it.
Because there may be sensitive information that, if exposed at the wrong moment or in
the wrong way, could have unexpected effects. As a result, leaders must be mature
enough to deal with information.

Ethical leaders build community:-Leadership is the process by which one person

inspires a group of people to achieve a common goal. Defining common goals
necessitates the participation of the entire community, as these goals must be shared by
everybody. Working toward these common goals changes both the leader and the team
members, and this change must be beneficial to all. Each person has a good impact that
is unique to them. In the broadest sense, an ethical leader is concerned with the common
good.

Rules of Conduct of Ethical Leaders :-

The rules of conduct that ethical leaders are needed to follow to gain acknowledgement
have been stated as follows:-

Leader Principle- The leader is regarded as the first and the foremost member of the
association and its prophet, thus, his conduct must serve the purpose of the association.
He plays an imperative part in the effective perpetration of tasks and in controlling the
operations. The main leader principle is, he should convey to the members how to follow
the morals, values, principles and norms within the association and formulate rules and
programs that are demanded to put into practice the leader principle in an applicable
manner.

Ingredients Principle- Leaders have respect for their co-workers and perceive them as
people who share a common purpose. The ethical leaders always consider co-workers
as sympathizers in carrying out tasks and operations. Their individuality and freedom is
accepted within the borders of ethical geste. When inferiors are considered asco-workers,
familiarity or friends by their elders, it not only results in effective communication, but tasks
and operations are also carried out in an applicable manner.

Outgrowth principle-A leader associates values to the stakeholder’s support as well as

societal legality. Organization charge, vision, values and pretensions, approaches and
schemes are outlined within an understanding of ethical ideals. The members of the
association are devoted towards their job duties, they put in their time, money and trouble
towards the achievement of the asked pretensions and objects. What's important to
understand in this point is, approaches, styles, schemes should be in agreement to the
ethical ideals.

Processes and skills principle-The leader is open to colorful kinds of opinions, ideas,
shoes and creates an atmosphere of dynamic and productive communication. In the
maturity of cases, individualities work in collaboration and they've collective
understanding with each other. In educational institutions, the job duties of the directors
and the heads consist of an association of meetings, where they get engaged in
conversations and exchange ideas and shoes. The procedures and chops are considered
essential in the perpetration of asked pretensions and objects.

Situation and environment principle-Moral judgements are used to make ethical

opinions and when crossing the boundaries of different ideas and perspectives. The
ethical leader is apprehensive of the limits of the values and ethical principles they live.
When two or further individuals are working on a design and they don't agree with each
other and have differing shoes, also they won't be suitable to complete their work
successfully. In order to do well in one’s work, it's important, one should have collective
understanding and co-operate with each other.

Ethics principle-A leader understands leadership and ethics as an intertwined process

and frames conduct and purposes in ethical terms. When individualities are working within
the association, it's essential, they've to follow the ethics principle in agreement to the
tasks and functions. For case, if a person is attending a meeting, it's important, he should
adequately hear to others ideas and suggestions and develop effective communication
skills.However, by visiting individualities, also he should be honest and truthful in
furnishing feedback to his leaders or administrators, If an existent is collecting information
from the field. For example, he's suitable to deal with just two guests in one day, also he
should speak the truth and always be honest.

The 4-V Model of Ethical Leadership

Individualities, who want to develop their leadership chops, make a difference and
demand to hold an inner passage of probity and make an external commitment to the
common well- being. It begins with the internal drive of the individualities and helps to
ascertain and claim their central values, develop a vision for how the world could be
different, find their particular voice for articulating their vision and honor the knowledge
ultimately, leading to external commitment of living and carrying in ways that serve the
community and advance the common well- being. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of
leadership is to shape the future that's romantic, inclusive, and enables all the members
of the society to negotiate their conditions, ideas and capacities.

The four pillars of the model of leadership include:-

Values-Ethical leadership begins with an

understanding of and commitment to the
individual core values. Values is a
comprehensive term meaning norms,
principles, morals, morals, ethics and
beliefs. By first determining the values at
the core of one’s individualities, an
individual begins the process of
assimilating the unique values with the
timber of selections at all situations of particular and communal lives.

Vision-Vision is the capability to frame one’s conduct, conditioning and functions,

particularly in the picture of service to others, within a real picture of what ought to be. An
individual carries out his tasks and functions with the main motive to achieve the asked
pretensions and objects. For this purpose, it's essential to formulate a vision that's
necessary to work towards accomplishment.

Voice- Claiming one’s voice is the process of articulating the vision to others in an
authentic and satisfying way that animates and motivates them to action. It's vital for the
leaders to speak the variety and communicate with the individuals about their work duties.
The perpetration of jobs within the association requires leaders to speak. Communicating
and enjoying interactive capacities is primarily pertained to voice.

Virtue- Individualities and the leaders need to understand that they come, what they
exercise. One nurtures virtue by rehearsing righteous geste, one should be apprehensive
and strive to do what's right and good. In this way, one develops the character of virtue.
In particular, virtue stands for the common good. Ethical leaders put forward the question,
how should values, vision and voice be suitable to keep up with the common good.

In order to attain ethical leadership, Grace added three more crucial factors to his
4-V model:

● The vision is linked to the values through service. The goal will be presented
through the service based on the values.

● Polis is a Greek word meaning politics. When an organization's vision must be

conveyed to public groups, it shows that it is dealing with the art of politics.

● The word "renewal" means "innovation." Even though the speech can be conveyed
in a variety of ways, the ethical person must regularly assess if his or her actions
are consistent with his or her beliefs and vision.

Examples of an Ethical Leadership:

1. Procter & Gamble : The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American
global consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. William
Procter and James Gamble formed the company in 1837. It focuses on
personal health/consumer health, as well as personal care and hygiene items.
These products are divided into numerous categories, including beauty,
grooming, health care, fabric & home care, and infant, feminine, and family
care. Many of their products are made uniquely for women and men. They have
 deep insights into their lives, challenges and aspirations. Focusing majorly on
three areas : Advertising & Media, Education & Economic opportunities and
inclusive environment inside organization that is equal opportunity for both of
the gender. They spent years being seen as testing the boundaries of ethics
but a decision in 2019 saw them address a key gender bias issue. Their
campaign called “we see equal” helped them to look at recruitment in a different
way and opened the doors to more egalitarian hiring practices and championed
the inclusion of more women in senior positions. The campaign launched by P
& G was viewed millions of times in more than 180 countries.

2. Ratan Tata : Ratan Tata is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and former

chairman of Tata Sons. Known as a value based, principled, and visionary
leader, He helped the tata group grow immensely over two decades of
leadership. The Tata group is well known for its ethical leadership practices as
well as for its CSR activities and principles such as the “Tatas don’t bribe” and
the “Tata don”t indulge in politics”. The Tata group had managed to build its
empire emphasizing the twin pillars of “trust” and “integrity” so much so that
these had become a key aspect of the Tata Brand. The Tata group grew
immensely under the leadership of Ratan Tata set out to modernize the group
and its image, and to set foot in the global arena. Ratan Tata took the loose
confederation of companies and created a unified group which in turn built an
institution. Some of the bold steps are :
● Disposed companies that did not perform
 ● Re-built group culture and identity.
● Increased shareholding of Tata sons to 26%.
● Retired chief executives not adhering to the system.

3. Patagonia : Patagonia is a clothing brand based in the United States that

specializes in outdoor gear. Yvon Chouinard created the company in 1973.
Chouinard Equipment was founded in 1957 by Yvon Chouinard, an expert rock
climber, to market hand-forged mountain climbing gear.Patagonia is widely
known as an outdoor and adventure wear brand that leads the way on taking
care of Earth with a mission statement to build the best product, cause no
unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the
environmental crisis. Patagonia’s CEO Jenna Jonson set a high bar.
● The company's iconic "Don't Buy This Jacket" ad first appeared in The
New York Times in 2011. It gave 100% of Black Friday sales to
environmental groups in 2016. In 2019, Patagonia Action Works, the
brand's grassroots action programme, matched all donations to
environmental charities.
● In a blog post launching the "Buy Less, Demand More" campaign,
Patagonia's chief executive, Ryan Gellert, said, "Patagonia's Worn Wear
initiative is a celebration of keeping our gear in use longer." "Purchasing
used clothing extends its life by 2.2 years on average, reducing its
carbon, waste, and water footprint by 73%."
● "Going organic was a difficult decision for us— morally, it made perfect
sense, but it was expensive and hard to come by," leadership wrote in a
congratulatory workplace email.
 That’s way we come to understand the importance of an Ethical Leadership

Conclusion
Ethical leadership is primarily devoted to the perpetration of the liabilities in an
applicable manner regarding the tasks and functions of the association. Ethics is
primarily concerned with the principles, norms, morals, values, morals and behaviors
that are respected by the leaders and other members of the association. Ethical
leaders should be fair in their dealings with others and shouldn't discriminate against
anybody on any grounds. They should be confident and not be alive in communicating
or dealing with the external parties. From the perspective of personality, leaders retain
strong provocation and are madly strong, valorous, and are fair in treating all workers.
Ethical leaders hold strong religious values, as their moral commitment seems to be
deep- embedded in religious conviction that brings a sense of unconditional obligation
to others. The primary job duty of the ethical leaders is to convey to all the members
that they should be honest, veracious, fair, logical, effective, active and dependable
in their work.