Blog 2 : How to Be a Leader Who Stays True to Their Ethics
How to Be a Leader Who Stays True to
Their Ethics
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When it comes to the
word “ Leadership ” refers as a role in both a formal role individuals have in
organizations and an activity individuals undertake in various aspects of their
life as professionals, citizens, parents, and volunteers, as examples.
Remember that the road to higher ethical ambition
starts with personal reflection about values and purpose in life. In business, it is impossible that leader only focus
on profit and expect to have a sustainable business with transparency and
fairness. This means ethical leadership impacts on a variety of reasons, for customers, employees, and
the company as a whole
There are so many ways and methods for leader to lead
ethically but some traits are very important to indicate a good leader as
followed
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Showing respect
means leader has a positive
thinking, a gratitude, an appreciation, a deep admiration towards
that employee by their qualities, and achievements. Respect should be shown
to everyone from superior
top managers to lower ranked subordinates , suppliers , partnership and etc.
When employee feel being treated unfairly from being disrespected can cause
negativity such as trusting issue for not feeling safe or motivating issue to continue
working
Leading by example
Ethical leaders should have the same expectations for
themselves as for those that work for them. When employees see that their
leaders are constantly making decisions with integrity and honesty
during work or during helping them, employee will take and apply
those ethical considerations in their work as well.
· Helping employees with daily tasks
They have an in-depth understanding of what the other
workers do and the challenges that can come with their work.
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· Willing to adapt, change and evolve.
Good leaders are willing to take the changes that are
coming and meet them head on. This encourages employees to be adaptable and
evolve with changes with less fear and resistance as well. Whatever comes for a
business, leaders can help navigate organization in a positive and ethical way.
· Communicating openly
Leaders who have ethics, need to master their communication skill to make sure their organization is a place of trust and honesty for every single person in their organization. Without communication, issues can go undetected for a long time.
- Don’t wait for the whistle to blow. Most of the time lower-level employees are afraid of speaking facts about mismanaging and things that go wrong. But If leader sets the uncover truth meeting with no emotional outburst , defensiveness, or blaming to help employees feel secure and trusty then the company will know the real problems that can prevent and stop more damages to the company
- Be prepared to be derailed. Schedule routine conversations to check-in with employees on your organization’s ethical ambitions to be able to know important information before things can go really wrong.
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· Managing stress effectively
It’s not acceptable to take out your personal or even
your professional stress on your workers. can create anger, frustration, or
fear in your employees. Stress managing
personality will help employees improve if needed, in positive, helpful ways.
Conclusion
The starting point of ethical ambition is personal reflection about values and purpose in life. in every industry, there is no way that leader can only focus on the profits and not long lasting business. This means ethical leadership impacts on a variety of reasons, for customers, employees, and the company as a whole. The leaders must conduct ethical actions to be the role model to their community.
My Reflection and Key Takeaway :
True
leader must be able to adapt in any situation and ready for changes in order to
come up with new strategy to direct the company. True leaders must have both
sides of characters, the soft sides and the hard side. The hard sides are
needed when it comes to authority, command, policies , punishments , promises,
honesty and some decision making
process. The other side could be empathy , supporting, being opened. Ethical leaders
will think put their employees into their shoes so that they will understand employee’s
perceptions and how they would like leaders to support. But both characters
must base on fairness and not personal emptions. Other wise leaders might make wrong
judgements at times.
References :
- Beer, M. (2021). How to Be a Leader Who Stays True to Their Ethics. [online] Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2021/09/how-to-be-a-leader-who-stays-true-to-their-ethics-2.
Ethical leadership is necessary in Management and HRM. it allow to promote and display example of ethical behavior in work. It lead by example of fairness, respect, support and integrity.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, if the leaders and HRM really have strong ethics, they will do everything with fairness and that will make their employees behave the same as the leaders. Like I was told, "every boss likes their employees to be like them"
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