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Ethical leadership - Coggle Diagram
Ethical leadership
Principles of ethical leadership
Shows justice
Manifests honesty
Serves others
Builds community
Respect for others
Perspectives of leadership scholars
Burns & ethical leadership
leaders should assist followers to emphasise values such as equality, justice and liberty
leadership esp transformational leadership is abt helping followers achieve higher ethical standards when differing values conflict
Greenleaf & ethical leadership
believed that servant leadership has a broad responsibility to society to address inequalities and social injustices
supported servant leadership
Heifetz & ethical leadership
main responsibility of leaders is to create a work atmospher characterised by empathy, trust and nurturance
help followers to change and grow when faced with difficult conflict
Types of ethical theories
theories about leaders' character
virtue-based approach
help people become more virtuous through training and development
theories abt leaders' conduct
focus on consequences of leaders' actions
Telelogical approaches
ethical egoism
create greatest good for the leader
most closely related to transactional leadership
utilitarianism
create greatest good for the greatest number
Altruism
show concern for best interests of others
similar to authentic transformational leadership
focuses on leaders' duty
deontological approaches
focus on actions of leader and moral obligations to do the right thing
criticisms
approach is anecdotal in nature and strongly influenced by personal opinion and worldview
lacks strong research to support theoretical foundations
Strengths
Provides a direction on how to think abt ethical leadership and how to practise it